La ciudad de Babel

La manipulación ideológica de la mujer bajo el franquismo, su exilio exterior e interior, y la represión brutal sufrida por miles de mujeres durante este negro período de nuestra historia.

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...

Hans-Georg Gadamer, uno de los representantes más destacados de la filosofía hermenéutica del siglo XX, nos acerca en este libro a la lírica alemana contemporánea. Sus reflexiones y comentarios son aproximaciones eminentemente personales a la poesía y reflejan una posición de lector atento sensible que no pretende construir interpretaciones eruditas de teoría literaria. Los ensayos de Gadamer convencen y atraen por sus lúcidas conclusiones y por el equilibrio entre consideraciones estilísticas y temáticas, aspectos biográficos y cuestiones de ubicación socio-histórica y...

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...