LOS CONFINES DE ¡LOS ALTOS DE CHIAPAS!

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Si bien ambas surgen del mismo río que es la narrativa, la historia y la literatura parecen habitar riberas opuestas. O bien, habitan el mismo cuarto, pero ocupan camas separadas. Para examinar si existe una frontera real entre ambas disciplinas, Jean Meyer, Antonio Saborit, Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Luis Barrón, Susana Quintanilla, Alejandro Araujo, José Mariano Leyva, Sarah Pollack, Oswaldo Zavala y el propio David Miklos se concentran en la hechura del presente literario mexicano y su historia inmediata, tendida o trenzada en los hilos tanto de la ficción como de la realidad, las obras...

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...

La presente antología de la poesía de Odiseas Elitis acerca al lector a la «magia griega» que traslucen las palabras del que ha sido considerado como el «poeta de poetas». Empleando procedimientos que constituyen la última palabra del arte, no cesa al propio tiempo de insinuarnos que en el fondo la poesía no es simplemente cuestión de laboriosidad y de virtuosismo sino práctica, ritual adivinatorio. Sus poemas son encantamientos que invocan el espíritu secular del mundo helénico, lo que durante siglos habitó y sigue habitando y magnetizando la conciencia europea, con continuas...