Los pícaros Borbones

Martin Fierro, the argentine poem, has been subject to numerous ideology biased interpretations. This appropriation, sometimes outrageous, has spurred the discussion whether Martin Fierro or Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo should be considered in orderto bring the Argentine society into a just, peaceful civil terrain. To read Quiroga Lavie's biography of Jose Hernandez means delving into the mind of an earnest, law abiding scholar, that nevertheless falls into the same trap of romanticizing the roguish characteristics with complete disregard of the fact that Martin Fierro's advise to his sons, ...

Matthew McConaughey es hijo de Jim y Kay McConaughey —dos veces divorciados y tres casados—, es un hombre casado, padre de tres hijos y un autoproclamado hombre afortunado. Se considera narrador por profesión, escribe poesía y es un músico frustrado ("pero bueno, todavía hay tiempo..."). "He comido peyote en Real de Catorce, México, en una jaula con un puma. He hecho que me cosieran setenta y ocho puntos de sutura en la frente, y que lo hiciera un veterinario. He tenido cuatro conmociones cerebrales por caerme de cuatro árboles, tres de ellos en luna llena. He tocado desnudo los...

En este libro, mencionaré los diferentes tipos de causas de aflicción y dificultades que ocurren a la Ummah (nación islámica) cómo evitarlas, y cómo tratarlas luego de que éstas ocurran. Recordar a Dios es un verdadero “Refugio” que resguardará al creyente, a su familia y a sus bienes.

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...