La conclusión del Amadís de Gaula

Artículos, ensayos breves, crónicas, reseñas y comentarios sobre temas diversos, escritos durante los años de la primera Guerra Mundial. Estos ensayos de Reyes se refieren principalmente a la literatura, el arte, la política y la historia contemporánea.

En Las renegadas, Lina Meruane propone una nueva lectura para la poesía de Gabriela Mistral Lina Meruane selecciona, reordena con atrevimiento y prologa a la Premio Nobel de Literatura, permitiendo leer de nuevos modos una poesía que ostenta el rango de lo clásico. «La poesía dialogante de la Mistral reniega del poder del territorio, entabla una relación fluida con la tierra y nos deja como legado la posibilidad de acabar con los viejos modelos de sociedad», dice Meruane en su prólogo. Y en efecto aquí vemos cómo la rebeldía, la extranjería, la incomodidad y la aspereza son los...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.