Fluvi. ABC del Medio Ambiente

En El olor de la guayaba pueden encontrarse las claves de un proceso creador y creativo de singular riqueza. Si formalmente El olor de la guayaba es una prolongada conversación del escritor y periodista Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza con su viejo amigo Gabriel García Márquez -lo que da ocasión a éste para desgranar con vivacidad sus remembranzas, juicios, opiniones y convicciones- sus contenidos van mucho más allá: en El olor de la guayaba bien pueden encontrarse las claves de un proceso, creador y creativo, de singular riqueza. De la mano de Mendoza, García Márquez desvela el mundo que...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

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...

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.