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The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

There is a ghost in the girls' bathroom at school! It's the coolest thing that has ever happened there until the teachers find out. Will Ivy and Bean find a way to get the ghost out of the bathroom? Don't put anything past these two friends.

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

¿No existen los personajes de las novelas que nos apasionan? ¿No son verdaderas las figuras del cuadro que nos absorbe o las escenas de la película que nos aterroriza? ¿Por qué nos emocionan así entonces? ¿Por qué nos las creemos tanto como para sollozar o reír a carcajadas? Actualizando un tema clásico del pensamiento occidental, la pregunta por el estatuto de realidad que corresponde a las creaciones artísticas, Pablo Maurette (autor de 'El sentido olvidado: ensayos sobre el tacto', Mar Dulce editora, 2015) compone aquí un ensayo brillante, preciso y delicioso. Armado con el...