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José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.

?Que es un hombre? ?Que es el conocimiento? ?Que esta bien y que no? ?Que es la filosofia? ?Por que algunos la consideran subversiva y peligrosa y otros directamente la ignoran? Filosofia para Principiantes responde a esas preguntas a traves de su historia

"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the extraordinary experience of Auguste Guinnard, a young French immigrant who, around 1850, gets lost in the Pampas and is captured by native tribes who considered every foreigner a foe. Bound to a cruel slavery among the last nomads of Patagonia, Guinnard, was forced to sleep in the ground, and survive naked feeding from raw meat and fresh blood. In spite of being despised, and often chastised even by...

Entre la narrativa detectivesca, la novela «de carretera», el relato biográfico y la crónica, Los detectives salvajes está considerada por la crítica y el público de todo el mundo como una de las mejores y más originales ficciones escritas en las últimas décadas. Incluye apuntes manuscritos de Roberto Bolaño para la escritura de Los detectives salvajes. Uno de los mejores libros en español de los últimos 25 años segúnBabelia. «Todo lo que comienza como comedia indefectiblemente acaba como misterio.» Dos jóvenes poetas latinoamericanos, Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima, emprenden...