El nuevo romanticismo

El blocao, Novela de la guerra marroqui, by Jose Diaz Fernandez constitutes one of the finest examples of the Modernist-Vanguardist aesthetics in Spanish literature. In a truly elegant way its author achieves his explicit goal to -interest the reader in a different way than the usual: that is, by plunging him into an opaque and tragic world without heroes or outstanding individuals, the way I experienced Morocco then-. Considered by some critics a short novel, by others a collection of stories or descriptions, it complies with the author's express intention to -compose a novel with no...

Little mouse decides to pull a prank his friends the bird and the squirrel by telling him that he has seen a blue wolf. What happens when a blue wolf actually appears?

Leo Stepanovich Demidov, un prometedor agente del MGB, el servicio secreto ruso, y su mujer son acusados de un delito de traición que no han cometido. La pareja se refugia en las colinas y descubre que varios niños han sido brutalmente asesinados, un terrible episodio del que el Partido Comunista se desentiende. Leo decide emprender una investigación por su cuenta para esclarecer esas muertes, a sabiendas de que arriesga su vida y la de su mujer.

Letras gauchas trata de las hablas del Río de la Plata, al tiempo que sustrae la gauchesca del corral localista para leerla en el interior de tradiciones y debates milenarios sobre ciudad y campo, oralidad y escritura, armas y letras. Un obra magistral que estudia las poéticas del género y vuelve a encontrar sus resoluciones en otras textualidades, en la conversación, las consignas políticas, los letreros, las rimas del estadio, la canción popular, escrita por uno de los más destacados especialistas en literatura argentina del siglo XIX.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...