En Nombre de Don Juan

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...

En 1583 Julian de Medrano, caballero navarro, publica en Paris su "Silva curiosa." Mercedes Alcala Galan nos ofrece el primer estudio y la primera edicion critica de esta miscelanea unica que comienza siendo una coleccion de corte paremiologico para continuar con una seccion de versos pastoriles y otra de cuentos. Sin embargo, lo mas sorprendente del libro es la parte final que se inicia con una serie de epitafios recogidos por el autor en sus viajes y se desarrolla como un fascinante relato autobiografico pleno de aventuras, magia y sucesos fantasticos contados en una narracion sumamente...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Revisión de un pensamiento poético que descubre en el lógos el carácter trágico del tiempo como horizonte de la existencia, además del sentido poético de la escritura como topología del silencio.