La Leyenda Negra en la frontera norte de México

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

Javier Casanova es un modesto profesor de autoescuela en una ciudad de provincias. De improviso, una serie de extrañas y repentinas circunstancias convierten su vida en una pesadilla. Una vida que , como la de tantos hombres, también guarda un secreto. Un secreto en el que se esconden las varias mujeres que conoció años atrás en situaciones nada claras. Unas situaciones que al final acabarán desvelando el secreto. Con ritmo semejante al del thriller clásico, la novela va desarrollando una trama que nos sumerge sucesivamente en distintas atmósferas, del relato sentimental a la crónica ...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...