The Ties that Bind

A l'any 1548, el cronista Gonzalo Fernández d'Oviedo (1478-1557) va concloure la redacció del Llibre de la Cámara Real del príncipe don Juan, un breu tractat en el qual es fa memòria sobre l'organització interna per la qual es va regir la casa del príncep don Joan (1478-1497), primogènit i únic fill varó dels Reis Catòlics. Inèdita des de 1870, l'obra s'oferix ara en una edició crítica anotava i precedida d'estudi, que pren com testimoniatges els dos manuscrits autògrafs conservats. Al llarg de les seues pàgines, inicialment dedicades al futur Felip II, Fernández d'Oviedo...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

El idiota - protagoista de este libro - es el sujeto alternativo que sobrevive a la crisis de la antropología, la disolución del sujeto o la así llamada "muerte del hombre" que fué declarada por los filósofos estructuralistas franceses.