De las intimidades congeladas a los marcos de guerra

La antología abre con el ensayo "Nuestra lengua" que, en palabras de Vicente Quirarte, "puede ser leído como un homenaje personal a la herramienta que utilizó con tal devoción, lealtad y maestría" y cierra con los útiles "Ejercicios de historia española", concebidos para contribuir a la formación de profesores y como bitácora para cualquier interesado en el tema.

La primera obra maestra de la literatura espanola. Texto original y transcripcion moderna. Edicion, adaptacion, prologo y notas del celebre critico literario Juan Bautista Bergua. El Poema del Cid, o Cantar de Mio Cid, es el primer monumento a la literatura espanola. Es un cantar de gesta escrito por un juglar anonimo aproximadamente en el ano 1200, despues de la muerte del heroe. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, "el Cid Campeador," es la mejor representacion del caballero heroico espanol, figura historica y legendaria de la Reconquista. Ni el mismisimo Cid podia imaginarse la trascendencia de su vida...

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...

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...