Memorias de una época

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

A través del Islam es una obra fundamental de la literatura de viajes, así como un clásico de las letras árabes. Es un relato en primera persona de las aventuras y desventuras, placeres y sinsabores, del tangerino Ibn en su dilatadísimo viaje desde Marruecos hasta China en pleno siglo xiv. Al regresar a su Marruecos natal, tras un periplo de veintitrés años, Ibn compiló sus recuerdos de los países islámicos visitados con la ayuda de un granadino, para satisfacer el encargo del sultán merení de Fez. Con la finalidad de proporcionar al sultán informaciones difíciles de adquirir en ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...