Emilia Prieto

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...

This book is written in Spanish. This book is a study of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere surrounding the Spanish author don Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) during his stay at the Courts of Palermo and Naples (1613-1619) in the service of the Viceroy Duke of Osuna. Attention is paid particularly to his early knowledge of the works of the poet Marino, his role as protector of the Arts, and as intercessor on behalf of the philosopher Campanella. The second part of the book offers a detailed analysis of the author's writings during his Italian and post-Italian years as a result of his...

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

Durante el siglo XX, la creación, circulación y recepción de cuentos tuvo un espacio singular en la literatura hispanoamericana. A lo largo de ese siglo se cimentó una tradición de practicantes-teóricos del cuento, esto es, escritores que produjeron no solo cuentos, sino también reflexiones sobre su quehacer. Este libro abre una mirada amplia sobre las cuestiones esenciales de esta especie literaria para luego analizar la construcción de una teoría del cuento por parte de Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar y Juan José Arreola entre 1935 y 1969. Modelos y prácticas en el cuento...