La ceremonia del adiós

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.

Mister Rex, the most ferocious dinosaur of all times, is on the attack. Rototom and his friends will not be intimidated and are willing and able to defend their village.

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

Galardonada con el premio Ondaatje 2006, esta tercera obra del periodista y escritor inglés James Meek recrea el marco grandioso y dramático propio de la gran novela rusa, en una suerte de fábula moderna en la que los destinos de un puñado de personajes, encerrados en un fascinante microcosmos, se dan cita formando una trama vertiginosa, perfectamente construida. En las postrimerías de la guerra civil que siguió a la revolución de Octubre, el remoto e inhóspito pueblo de Yazik alberga a una pequeña secta que vive de espaldas a las convulsiones del mundo, sigilosamente entregada a la...