Los Meyis

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?...

“Un garca es una persona que tiene gravemente perturbadas sus relaciones con la alteridad. Un garca establece con los demás, con el otro, una relación de sujeción y explotación y, en cualquier caso, de prejuicio y perjuicio.” La palabra garca, construida en el revés característico del lunfardo, tiene una variedad de significados en el lenguaje popular. Sin embargo, este libro anclará uno, a la vez político y sociológico en la medida en que considera que la palabra pasa a describir una tipología nacional. Dicen los autores con una claridad que el lector agradece que el...

La economia y el comercio; la indumentaria y los usos; la organizacion social, politica y sacerdotal; la literatura y la escritura; la medicina; la idea del tiempo y la historia; las matematicas, la astronomia y la cronologia; la religion, la cosmologia y la cosmogonia; lo ritual; la arquitectura, la pintura y la escultura... el universo Maya, simplemente.

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...