La mitología griega

El libro La otra cara de la Luna forma parte de un amplio proyecto concebido por su autor, el Dr. Álvaro Uribe Rueda, y que precede a un texto anterior titulado Bizancio, el dique iluminado, que reflexiona acerca de la concepción mística del universalismo, las raíces judías y helénicas, y la herencia cristiana.

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Pensamiento político de la emancipación venezolana contiene textos fundamentales escritos por los precursores de la revolución venezolana. Se incluyen el Discurso preliminar a los americanos , con que se prologó en 1767 la publicación de los Derechos del hombre y del ciudadano por los participantes en la conspiración de Manuel Gual y José María España ; los Planes de Gobierno de 1801 y la Proclama de Coro de 1806 , escrita por don Francisco de Miranda; el Acta de la Independencia y textos de Fernando Peñalver, Francisco Javier Ustáriz, José Rafael Revenga y Antonio Muñoz Tébar;...