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Reflexiones críticas sobre la teoría de la salud pública
Pensar la salud, hasta la fecha, es una tarea que jamás se ha emprendido en Occidente, pues la preocupación fue siempre negativa: el rechazo de la enfermedad, la superación de la pobreza y otras expresiones semejantes. Es posible decirlo en términos fuertes y directos: el llamado a la salud coincide con un auténtico giro civilizatorio. Occidente siempre supo solamente de la enfermedad y cómo vencerla; hoy asistimos a los albores de una nueva civilización que se enfoca en aspectos nunca antes considerados. Se trata del desplazamiento de la tradicional y dominante concepción antropológica, antropocéntrica y antropomórfica de la realidad y la naturaleza por una visión más orgánica, horizontal y no jerárquica, en la que la naturaleza y la vida en general se convierten en la fuente de todo valor y sentido, en la finalidad de cualquier consideración ética, axiológica o estética.
Home Reading Service
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Spiders and Other Arachnids
What is an arachnid? How does a spider kill its prey? How do spiders make silk? Read this book to find out!
I Didn't Talk
The English-language debut of a master stylist: a compassionate but relentless novel about the long, dark harvest of Brazil’s totalitarian rule A professor prepares to retire—Gustavo is set to move from Sao Paulo to the countryside, but it isn’t the urban violence he’s fleeing: what he fears most is the violence of his memory. But as he sorts out his papers, the ghosts arrive in full force. He was arrested in 1970 with his brother-in-law Armando: both were vicariously tortured. He was eventually released; Armando was killed. No one is certain that he didn’t turn traitor: I didn’t talk, he tells himself, yet guilt is his lifelong harvest. I Didn’t Talk pits everyone against the ...
Antonio
A brilliant, magisterial novel of family secrets simmering beneath the surface Benjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three closest confidantes are still alive—Isabel, his grandmother; Haroldo, his grandfather’s friend; and Raul, his father’s friend—and each will tell him a different version of the facts. By collecting these shards of memories, which offer personal glimpses into issues of class and politics in Brazil, Benjamin will piece together the painful puzzle of his family history. Like a Faulkner novel, Beatriz Bracher’s brilliant Antonioshows the expansiveness of past events and the complexity of untangling long-buried secrets.
El archivo del duelo
Los atentados del 11 de marzo tuvieron una respuesta ciudadana en los espacios públicos que pone de manifiesto la necesidad de entender las prácticas rituales de la sociedad en la que vivimos. Las catástrofes, las masacres y los atentados terroristas se memorializan en espacios públicos utilizando un repertorio de actos de duelo que se han convertido en un patrón común en muchos países occidentales. Cuando una muerte es sentida de manera particularmente trágica por la sociedad, bien porque entre las víctimas haya gente anónima o bien porque se produzca la muerte de un personaje mediático muy popular, se ponen en marcha unos mecanismos de duelo en espacios públicos que llamaremos ...
