Roland Barthes

The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological...

Lope, a lion cub, goes to school with the rest of the youngsters of the savannah. Lope, however, is not like the others. He is the laughing stock of the school. He keeps missing the ball, and he is no good at hunting ... in fact he is awful at it. The thing is, nobody knows that Lope is a short-sighted lion. Fortunately, this is easily solved. Discover how while you enjoy the verses of this wonderful narrative poem. A fun way to introduce the little ones to the thrilling world of poetry. Lope, un cachorro de le�n, va a la escuela junto al resto de cr�as de la sabana. Sin embargo, Lope no...

In this rhyming picture book with very little text, a dog steals a boy's teddy bear and the child chases after him. Along the way, he sees many bears, but he is looking for one special one in particular.

Breve cartografía de lugares sin ningún interés marca la literatura brasileña contemporánea por su invención formal y su singular inteligencia imaginativa. De los territorios sin interés brotan acontecimientos insólitos; disposiciones extrañas y nuevos ángulos de visión en relación con los objetos y los lugares; percepciones disonantes sobre la sociedad, dotadas de un tono político, historias de vida en las que impera la ausencia de un trazo extraordinario. La mezcla de diferentes géneros, la precisión del vocabulario, la mirada penetrante y a la vez desconfiada, el...