Le désordre et la vie

Pablo quiere ser capitán y navegar en ese mar que en el horizonte parece fusionarse con el cielo. En esta verdadera aventura en altamar, el pequeño demostrará que es posible derrotar al terrible kraken, encontrar mapas de auténticos tesoros y afrontar sus miedos más grandes, que se presentan en cada una de sus pesadillas y que parecen interponerse entre él y su sueño de ser capitán: las tormentas y naufragar.

La poesía puede nacer como una sensación, un recuerdo, una certeza, una luz, o una sombra que se prolonga en la mente.

Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He shares his bunk with a quiet man named Herr Levin, who seems too gentle for this terrible place. One night Werner is woken by the sound of prison guards yelling. But its not Werner they want, its Herr Levin. Do your magic! they order him. Magic? In Auschwitz?

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...