El Caribe universal

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Gabriela Paz Morales Urrutia (Santiago, Chile,1984) Periodista, Licenciada en Comunicación Social de la Universidad Diego Portales y poeta. Integrante de la Sociedad de Escritores de Chile, Auch! Autoras Chilenas Feministas y de Colectiva de experimentación poética La manada de la Gacela. Reseña Literatura ilustrada, es colaboradora del programa radial de Literatura Palabras peligrosas de Universidad Sek, colabora con la revista http://www.cactuscultural.cl y es coordinadora del Simposio de Literatura en Pandemia convocado por la Sociedad de Escritores de Chile. Ha publicado en diversas...

Novela de gran actualidad en la que Galdós retrata la corrupción de los políticos y de la corte española, Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 (1875) forma parte de los Episodios Nacionales y narra el ascenso social de Juan de Pipaón, un arribista que llega a integrar la caricaturesca camarilla de Fernando VII. Llena de humor y crítica social, la obra da continuidad a la mejor tradición picaresca hispánica. El protagonista del libro, que narra en primera persona su experiencia, en forma de testimonio, relata corruptelas y trapicheos de favores. Piapón -símbolo del cortesano de entonces...

Larry and Agatha are sent to Japan to protect Goro Saitama, an extremely popular writer of Manga. Someone is trying to steal his latest creation. Will the two young detectives be able to unmask the thief?