Un hombre suave

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...

Ante la gran cantidad de artículos sobre literatura española que se publican en las revistas del ámbito y en volúmenes colectivos —y ante la ambigüedad o imprecisión de algunos de sus títulos— se hace cada vez más necesaria una información de su contenido. La Bibliografía en resúmenes de la literatura española (artículos) pretende ofrecer algo más que la mera referencia bibliográfica: dar cuenta de su contenido de una manera resumida y de acuerdo a unas pautas generales. Los artículos aquí resumidos corresponden a los publicados desde 1998 al 2003, con el compromiso de...

Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He shares his bunk with a quiet man named Herr Levin, who seems too gentle for this terrible place. One night Werner is woken by the sound of prison guards yelling. But its not Werner they want, its Herr Levin. Do your magic! they order him. Magic? In Auschwitz?

In this book we're invited to choose words randomly, to count syllables, to let the stress in the words make its music, to give in to the meaning of words, to become readers of poetry, to spread the verses in Spanish that are ours and everybody's. Many wrongly believe that verses are written in a state of agitation, enthusiasm, or near-dementia, but, to the benefit of those trying to write their first poem, Hiriart proves that this is hardly ever the case. Great examples of poetry from classic and contemporary authors, and anecdotes and dialogues of great wit and precision, make this volume a ...