Octavio Paz. El misterio de la vocación

A pesar de sus paradójicas luminarias, la historia de México a veces es cruel con sus caudillos. Los arrincona, los hunde en empresas destinadas al fracaso, los arrumba en el olvido; prueba de ello es la mítica figura de Ireneo Paz, emblema de los liberales mexicanos, militar, poeta, crítico de su tiempo, novelista, editor vehemente y al final de sus días...solo un fantasma. Ángel Gilberto Adame ofrece en esta obra monumental un recuento súbito, espléndidamente documentado de los liberales en México a través de las acciones, disputas, publicaciones y conflictos de Ireneo Paz, quien...

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

Este libro recupera la memoria y los avatares de varias mujeres, artistas y pensadoras de la generación del 27, cuyo legado resulta determinante en la historia de nuestro país, al igual que el de sus compañeros pertenecientes a esa ineludible generación literaria. Mujeres que se quitaron el sombrero, ese corsé intelectual que las relegaba al papel de esposas y madres, y participaron sin complejos en la vida intelectual española entre los años veinte y treinta. Entre ellas destacan escritoras, artistas plásticas, dramaturgas y pensadoras: Rosa Chacel, Ernestina de Champourcín, Marga...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Persona advocates a new morality; an ethics of rational self-interest that stands in complete opposition to the political, social and religious attitudes of our day. My unique philosophy of objectivism is the underlying theme of the book; the basic tenets of a new ethos that challenges the accepted standards of our age. The psychological experience of a journey through innocence to learning; through normality and abnormality and emotional encounters in the quest for inner enlightenment.