La reina del crimen y sus predecesores

This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the work of two US-American translators, Alice Stone Blackwell and Isaac Goldberg, it is the first study to offer a modern history of the amateur translator as subject of resistance and cultural mediator between the two regions.

J.M.G. Le Clézio es un escritor atípico, que ha viajado literariamente por territorios muy distintos. Este estudio se adentra en la década que abarca desde 1963 a 1973, época en la que Le Clézio incorpora a su edificio narrativo una amalgama de filosofías heterogéneas que van desde la filosofía presocrática, pasando por la filosofía zen, hasta llegar a una manera de entender el mundo de signo existencialista que se manifiesta, en el plano formal, en su vinculación al fenómeno del Nouveau roman.

Ponencias del I Congreso Internacional celebrado en la Universidad de Bordeaux III (Francia, 1988) dedicado a César Vallejo: poeta, pero también teórico de la escritura, novelista, dramaturgo y periodista del siglo XX.

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...