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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?...

En este volumen se ofrece por primera vez la traducción al español de un texto del viajero austriaco del siglo XIX Isidore Löwenstern. Este volumen constituye un excelente retrato de la vida y costumbres del México de la época, así como de los lugares y situaciones de mayor importancia para el viajero. Es, además, una aproximación privilegiada, desde la perspectiva de un explorador de filiación monárquica y colonialista, al pensamiento que el hombre del viejo mundo guardaba sobre su contraparte extranjera.

Este libro ofrece al gran público una versión renovada y actualizada de las complejas interrelaciones entre ambiente, sociedad, política, economía y cultura que, a lo largo de cinco siglos, dieron forma a la Mendoza actual y al país que vivimos hoy. Una forma de hacer historia que, a la vez que abandona toda pretensión de proponer modelos o dogmas, mantiene intacta la convicción de que el conocimiento del pasado contribuye a pensar y entender el presente que nos toca vivir. Dice Luis Alberto Romero: «Un libro ejemplar de síntesis histórica, muy bien pensado y muy bien escrito, en el ...

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