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Alfonso Reyes is perhaps the most universal of Mexican thinkers. Writing at a time when nationalism reached its peak in Mexico, his profoundly humanistic and wide-ranging literary output established the foundations of modern thought not only in his home country but also in most of Latin America. His writings cover such an encyclopedic array of themes, genres, and cultural traditions that he came to be styled "The Mexican Polygraph." The task of creating an anthology that does justice to the entire oeuvre such a writer in a strenuous endeavor that Jose Luis Martinez, editor of Alfonso Reyes' Complete Works, has accomplished splendidly. This volume is much needed starting point and an insightful guide thought Reyes' work.
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¿Y si tu mayor terror fuera la verdad? ¿Te atreverías a descubrirla?
The Chaco War was the first modern conflict in South America. Over time, it became the topic of many volumes published in both Bolivia and Paraguay - first by veterans, such as the commanders-in-chief, and the commanders of army corps', regiments or battalions, and by other ranks, in the form of personal memoirs or wider histories, and using a wide variety of sources. Subsequently, the conflict attracted attention of many foreign writers, foremost from the United States of America and Europe, who researched it with great interest. Hundreds of related articles have also been published.Nevertheless, 'The Chaco War, 1932-1935' is the first ever concise history of this conflict, providing the re...
A love story. A journey in search of self. A meditation on our frightening times. With Mother Tongue, Demetria Martinez gives us all these and more, in an unforgettable novel infused with the color, sunlight, and cool shadows of the world her two lovers inhabit. Told in the cadences of a poet, with the unsparing honesty of a woman looking back on the most important decision of her life, the events in Mother Tongue unfold with the urgency, the inevitability, of destiny. Mary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adrift in the wake of her mother's death, she longs for something meaningful to take her over. Vulnerable to love and game for anything, Mary knows she has found the other part...
Obra monumental donde la erudición y el afán didáctico logran un equilibrio ejemplar. Hernán Cortés es la evaluación más ponderada y vasta que escritor mexicano alguno haya escrito sobre la polémica persona del conquistador.
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