Hipocondría moral

"In August 1592, a sheriff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Fray Juan de la Cruz, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, who died the year before, to his final abode in Segovia. When they find him 'incorrupt and as fresh as when he died,' there is an ecstatic fervor for the friar's body...all kinds of adventures and misfortunes happen, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythological deeds. The story told by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the friar's verses, as if they had prophesied the delirium...

Y cuando el otoño llega, las terrazas recogen los parasoles que se convierten en extraños fantasmas que miran al cielo nublado en espera del sol que le da utilidad.

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary...

Sarmiento es una de las figuras determinantes de nuestra historia. Por su propia naturaleza y por la época decisiva que le tocó vivir, es un hombre polémico, endiosado y denostado por las diversas corrientes historiográficas, pero más conocido por versiones y leyendas que por la lectura atenta de sus obras. Esta selección de textos recorre el Facundo, los Viajes, Recuerdos de provincia, cartas públicas y personales y permite así una precisa aproximación a su obra, que enriquece el debate sobre el pasado y el futuro de nuestra nación.