El burgo de don Sebastián

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

Retrato de las precarias condiciones de vida de una familia de campesinos extremenos, aplastada por la miseria y el yugo que imponen los senores, Los santos inocentes se publico en 1981 como una alegoria de la Espana de poseedores y desposeidos, pero mas vastamente como una obra sobre la violacion de las relaciones entre el hombre y la naturaleza. El exito de la novela fue extraordinario: ademas de las reediciones que se sucedieron en pocos meses, en 1983 Mario Camus llevo a cabo una adaptacion cinematografica que conserva todo el aire poetico y el intenso humanismo del relato. Domingo...

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...

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.