Fabliaux III

One of the most influential figures in the Latin American literary boom of this century, this highlights the Argentine writer's superb stories, taking into account other works of fiction, miscellanea, and nonficiton to give a balanced overview of Cortazar's lasting accomplishments.

Acerca al lector hacia el sentido esencial del arte desde una perspectiva filosófica, más exactamente la estético-semiótica. Dicho sentido ha de significar en su mente algo así como el “modo de ser” de las prácticas artísticas, o sea el comportamiento esencial que ellas presentan. Por su parte, el término “prácticas artísticas” ha de apuntar a las expresiones particulares del arte en tanto son situaciones puestas en acción, las cuales, además, abren el horizonte para una experiencia estética placentera: la escultura, la pintura, el cine, la literatura, los performances,...

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...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...