Razón, intención y significado

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...

La obra del escritor peruano Julio Ramón Ribeyro nos introduce en la otra cara del boom de la literatura latinoamericana de los 60. A través de un estilo muy personal, presidido por la sencillez formal y un hábil manejo de las técnicas de la ambigüedad, Ribeyro indaga en el indescifrable mensaje que se esconde tras el caos urbano, mediante la exploración en las posibilidades inéditas de la ciudad literaria. Este estudio aborda precisamente la temática urbana como eje para un nuevo enfoque de su obra, en el que la ciudad se configura como centro de significaciones de su arte literario.

An edition of the earliest surviving account books of the two public playhouses of Madrid, giving the daily repertoire, takings and expenses.The latter include detailed information on scenery, actors and sundry minor repairs to the theatres, as well as the daily payment to the Royal Hospice, from which the size of the audience can be calculated.The introduction, includes database analysis of the accounts, and alphabetical index of plays performed.

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...