Sabiduría griega y paradoja cristiana

(Françoise Sagan - Bertolt Brecht - Saint-Exupéry - Simone de Beauvoir - Paul Valéry - Saint-John Perse). Trad. esp. de V. GARCÍA YEBRA.

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Stendhal's posthumously published memoir, this brief autobiography consists of memories from his Parisian life between 1821 and 1830. It describes a time of brilliant social relations and intense literary activity in early 19th-century Paris. With Stendhal's vivid descriptions of his own personal experiences, readers are transported to French Restoration parlors where they too can witness and experience their grandeur. Las memorias póstumamente publicadas de Stendhal, esta breve autobiografía consiste de sus recuerdos de su vida parisina entre 1821 y 1830. Describe una época de relaciones...

Mujeres en transito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-44), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-92), Eduarda Mansilla (1834-92), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909). Each author traveled and wrote in different and significant moments in the history of the Latin American nations, and their texts touch upon the nature of hemispheric and European cross-cultural relations. Mujeres en transito revises the...

¿Péguy, el insurrecto? Bajo las diversas formas del capitalismo, de la burguesía, del cientificismo, del imperialismo, del clericalismo, de la enseñanza elitista y de las ideologías-culturales, se fragua una misma empresa, característica de lo que Péguy llama «el mundo moderno»; y que tiende a degradar al hombre, a envilecerle y a someterle, en su trabajo, su libertad, su vida. Desde sus años de estudiante, Péguy se rebela contra esta condición del hombre moderno; apasionado, irreductible, temible, ataca en todos los frentes: socialismo, cristianismo, nacionalismo, cultura......