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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...

Bartolome Hidalgo (Montevideo, 1788 - Moron, Buenos Aires Province, 1822) is the first poet to have utilized the Spanish language to capture the qualities of gaucho speech His writings, comprising a series of lyrical, narrative and dialogic texts about current political concerns of the second and third decades of the 19th century in both margins of the Rio de la Plata, have been recognized by the most respected literary critics of the region -Sarmiento, Mitre, Leguizamon, Rojas, Falcao Espalter, Borges- as the initiation of this most original genre, and Hidalgo, consequently, the first...

Esta obra recoge y analiza en una sola obra, de manera comprensiva y panorámica, los textos esenciales del a literatura española de esa época que se han conservado obras y autores- y su situación actual, en pormenorizados estudios a cargo de más de un centenar de reconocidos especialistas de las principales universidades tanto españolas como europeas y americanas. Con este volumen se completa una magna obra (junto al volumen dedicado al s. XVI) que comprende toda la literatura española desde sus inicios hasta el s. XVII. Dirigen el Diccionario y cada una de sus secciones: Pablo...

"Un recorrido a lo largo de diferentes cuadros que forman parte de la pintura, pasando por artistas como Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Dalí o Picasso, con los que descubrirás el arte."--P. [4] of cover.