Perfiles del mal en la historia de Colombia

The Myth of the Non-Russian explores the magical realist prose of two non-Slavic authors writing in Russian in the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s. Erika Haber argues that these authors juxtaposed their native myth with Soviet myth, thus undermining the Soviet prescription of national conformity in art by suggesting a plurality of worlds and truths.

“A cada uno de los grandes acontecimientos europeos, corresponde una reacción en el territorio americano. La escena de Bayona, en la que Fernando VII pierde su corona, inicia el proceso de la independencia y estimula en los criollos el propósito de crear juntas similares a las de España y con el mismo derecho con que aquellos fueron organizadas, al producirse el vacío monárquico. La instalación de las Cortes de Cádiz y la invitación a los americanos a formar parte de ellas, origina la redacción del célebre Memorial de agravios. El regreso de Fernando VII, con el triunfo...

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

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