Memorias en tinta

The titles included in this exceptional series gather the masterworks of some of world literature's most celebrated names. Painstaking translations from the original English, German, Greek, and Russian preserve the essence of these classics for a Spanish-speaking audience, and the books themselves are elegantly and impeccably bound, as befits the contents. Whether drama, fiction, or philosophy, these magnum opera provide windows into social and historical contexts considerably different to the present day. From the classic novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass...

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

Josefina Ludmer relee, con una mirada atenta a la historia y la política, los textos de la literatura argentina a partir del delito. El delito –sostiene siguiendo a Marx y Freud– está en todos los campos, y por ello, es un instrumento crítico ideal: una frontera móvil y cambiante que no solo sirve para separar la cultura de la no cultura, sino también para articular diferentes zonas, como el Estado, la política, los sujetos, la literatura. Ludmer combina de manera audaz fragmentos de diversas ficciones –de Holmberg, Lugones, Quiroga, Soiza Reilly, Bianco, Mujica Láinez, Arlt,...

La primera obra maestra de la literatura espanola. Texto original y transcripcion moderna. Edicion, adaptacion, prologo y notas del celebre critico literario Juan Bautista Bergua. El Poema del Cid, o Cantar de Mio Cid, es el primer monumento a la literatura espanola. Es un cantar de gesta escrito por un juglar anonimo aproximadamente en el ano 1200, despues de la muerte del heroe. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, "el Cid Campeador," es la mejor representacion del caballero heroico espanol, figura historica y legendaria de la Reconquista. Ni el mismisimo Cid podia imaginarse la trascendencia de su vida...