Sindéresis

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Alamedas Oscuras es una colección de relatos escrita inicialmente durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en los que todo gira en torno al amor. Último libro de su vida, Bunin no dudó en considerarlo su mejor obra. Proponemos al lector una selección representativa de relatos, incluyendo el que da nombre al libro.

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...

Estudio bibliográfico que viene siendo una ampliación de la ponencia que el autor presentó y leyó en octubre de 1976, con motivo del II Simposio sobre el Padre Feijóo y su siglo, en la Universidad de Oviedo, en aquel momento referida a once escritores: "Alea, Bernaldo de Quirós, Camino Orella, Castro Fernández, Cervela Soto, Cornide Saavedra, Herbella de Puga, Lameyro García, Rodríguez Conde, Vicario Lamas, Villar Bermúdez de Castro". En la presente edición se amplía el primitivo estudio objeto de la ponencia con nuevos datos y documentación actualizada de los mencionados...