Un desierto para la nación

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...

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...

Los padres de Julio se han ido de vacaciones, dejándole al cuidado de su tía Pilar. Sin embargo, lo que Julio idea es quedarse solo en casa. Una vez que logra deshacerse de su tía, Julio respira tranquilo: por fin su plan está en marcha. Pero en mitad de la noche le despiertan unos ruidos. El miedo se apodera de Julio.

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...