Desafiando al olvido

Nothing can save Alex's life- that's what all the doctors say, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can crack open a door to the afterlife, pulling her son back from the brink. When she uses the spells, five evil ancients -the Death Walkers- are also brought back to life, releasing an ancient evil.

Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...

Tras las épocas del mito y la religión, tal vez el destino del hombre moderno sean las ideologías, cuya mejor representación es, sin duda, la que, de forma involuntaria, logra plasmar Goya en su célebre grabado El sueño de la razón produce monstruos. Mucho más que la filosofía, ha sido la literatura la que, de un modo esencialmente intuitivo, ha indagado en tal destino. Ya Cervantes nos ofrece un análisis poco menos que trascendental de la sinrazón pura que significa en sus manifestaciones más extremas el pensamiento ideológico. Asimismo, Moby Dick, Los demonios, Madame Bovary o...