El Dalai Lama

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The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

Benjamin Péret y México, permite al lector conocer una etapa de la vida de este sobresaliente escritor surrealista. Su salida de Europa, al inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y su breve estancia en México son el tema central de la primera parte de la obra; ahí se refieren episodios importantes de su destierro y finaliza con el retorno a Francia. La segunda parte la constituye un conjunto de textos cuyo asunto está relacionado con aspectos históricos o artísticos de México, mientras que aquellos que tratan cuestiones ajenas al ámbito mexicano fueron seleccionados por haber sido...

Observar con cuidado, mirar, espiar, escudriñar, curiosear, informar, advertir, ver… son los sinónimos, junto con otros, de “atisbar”, palabra de etimología incierta. Atisbos es una mirada estética sobre veinte de nuestros creadores literarios más representativos que participaron del evento Encuentro con el Autor y su Obra. Atisbos a su vida y obra, a su pensamiento y afectos, a sus templos axiológicos; atisbos a sus espacios íntimos y a sus instantes de creación, en procura de algunas claves de sus universos ideológicos y simbólicos; atisbos a sus maneras de sentir y recrear...