Tinta del exotismo

Anna Franchi publicó su novela Adelante el divorcio en 1902. Su convicción de la necesidad de la promulgación de una ley que permita la disolución del matrimonio y su actividad febril durante esos años para conseguir que ese sueño se hiciera realidad se integran perfectamente en un contexto, el de la Italia a caballo entre el siglo XIX y el XX, en el que desde el Feminismo, pero también desde el Parlamento, se lucha por la mejora sustancial de la condición de la mujer y por la consecución de los derechos más necesarios. Una batalla que, sin embargo, no va a dar fruto hasta décadas...

No 109: LA CIUDADANIA IMAGINADA... Analiza como se defienden en la novela popular española, los valores y modos de comportamiento más deseables, como la tolerancia, el trabajo, el ahorro o los placeres de una vida tranquila vida doméstica, y cómo, en este aspecto, entre los autores de folletines y los grandes novelistas del periodo se establecen notables coincidencias.

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...

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...