Gérard de Nerval

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

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...

"La mamá de Eleneja es una jirafa, pero ella no es una jirafa ... No se parece a la elefantas ni a las cebras ... Pero, entonces, ¿qué animal es Eleneja? ¿Quieres acompañarla en su vuaje para descubrirlo? -- Page 4 of cover.

Es una exploración por la obra de uno de los escritores más enigmáticos e influyentes del siglo XX: César Dávila Andrade. Desde el análisis de una de las vetas creativas, la llamada poesía hermética, el autor brinda una nueva entrada al estudio y entendimiento del legado de El Faquir, como lo apodaron alguna vez sus amigos más cercanos. Carrión demuestra que los poemas más desconcertantes de Dávila Andrade no son el resultado de una conciencia atribulada por el alcoholismo ni el síntoma de su decadencia creativa, sino la consecuencia de una búsqueda estética, vital consistente, ...