Secretos medievales

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?...

Afghanistan, Summer 2006. This is war. Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it.

En esta obra el poeta resume de manera conmovedora los pálpitos de esa Guatemala convulsa dispuesta a abrirle las puertas a la Revolución, y nos muestra el desencanto de una población que no pudo nutrirse plenamente de las bondades revolucionarias. El ensayo, escrito en el exilio, ofrece una evocación de la tierra nativa y una visión de la trayectoria histórica y de los conflictos esenciales de Guatemala. Santo Tomás Chichicastenango ?la tierra del Popol Vuh?, la desbordante historia de Bernal Díaz del Castillo y la maestría poética de Rafael Landívar son, entre otras, escenas...

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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.