Desempolvando a los clásicos

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...

RESUMEN: Pasárgada, donde se halla la tumba de Ciro, en Siria, es también la ciudad imaginaria del poeta Manuel Bandeira, donde se realizan sus fantasías infantiles y humanas. Pasárgada es inicio y destino de una poesía hecha con la materia del tiempo y del sueño como sucede con la mejor producción poética española del siglo XX, desde Juan Ramón Jiménez o Antonio Machado a Jorge Guillén o Luis Cernuda. Palabras clave: Tiempo; Sueño; Poesía; Brasil; España; Siglo XX; Juan Ramón Jiménez. RESUMO: Pasárgada, onde se encontra a tumba de Ciro, na Síria, é também a cidade...

Los padres de Julio se han ido de vacaciones, dejándole al cuidado de su tía Pilar. Sin embargo, lo que Julio idea es quedarse solo en casa. Una vez que logra deshacerse de su tía, Julio respira tranquilo: por fin su plan está en marcha. Pero en mitad de la noche le despiertan unos ruidos. El miedo se apodera de Julio.

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...