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"En este libro, Victorio Pirillo esgrime con excelencia y maestría académica un arma imbatible, que es la verdad documentada de los hechos contados. Corre un viejo telón que nos permite como espectadores asistir a una imaginaria justicia ubicada en un fantasioso juicio post mortem en el noveno círculo de La divina comedia de Dante Alighieri, con hombres y circunstancias de otros tiempos, como lo son aquí Marx, Engels, Aníbal Ponce, Virgilio, Caronte, San Martín, Francisco de Miranda y tantos otros. Al igual que con su libro Espartaco y su legión de rebeldes y anarquistas, con Pirillo...

Bartolome Hidalgo (Montevideo, 1788 - Moron, Buenos Aires Province, 1822) is the first poet to have utilized the Spanish language to capture the qualities of gaucho speech His writings, comprising a series of lyrical, narrative and dialogic texts about current political concerns of the second and third decades of the 19th century in both margins of the Rio de la Plata, have been recognized by the most respected literary critics of the region -Sarmiento, Mitre, Leguizamon, Rojas, Falcao Espalter, Borges- as the initiation of this most original genre, and Hidalgo, consequently, the first...

The titles included in this exceptional series gather the masterworks of some of world literature’s most celebrated names. Painstaking translations from the original English, German, Greek, and Russian preserve the essence of these classics for a Spanish-speaking audience, and the books themselves are elegantly and impeccably bound, as befits the contents. Whether drama, fiction, or philosophy, these magnum opera provide windows into social and historical contexts considerably different to the present day. Two of Aristotle’s most fundamental works, the Nicomachean Ethics and Metaphysics,...

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...