La guerra persistente

Sobre el libro: Este libro, primer ensayo dedicado a la presencia de lo sublime en la narrativa española contemporánea, se centra en algunas novelas de Tomeo, Vila-Matas, Sánchez-Piñol y Pérez-Reverte, con dos objetivos. En primer lugar, analiza críticamente una tradición intelectual que se ha servido de lo sublime para el entendimiento y estudio de la cultura ibérica y que ha tendido a enfatizar el exceso, el desgarro y la exuberancia. En segundo lugar, confronta otra que ha invocado, no lo sublime, sino su concepto opuesto y complementario: lo bello. Dicha cultura ha sido descrita...

On the assassination of three Salvadoran representatives to the Parlamento Centroamericano, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and José Ramón González, in Guatemala on Feb. 19, 2007, as well as the crimes that followed it and the associated investigations.

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Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

Captions in English and Spanish accompany photographs that reveal the buildings, people, and scenery of Havana, Santiago and other cities and towns, and the Cuban countryside