Cinco versiones de Adriano

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

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...

Anicio Manlio Torcuato Severino Boecio (470-524) nace en Roma y estudia retorica y filosofia en Atenas. Fue senador romano. Su proyecto originario fue el de traducir al latin tanto a Platon como Aristoteles. Boecio ha sido calificado como el ultimo representante de la cultura romana antigua y el primero de los intelectuales medievales. Su obra mas importante es "De la consolacion por la filosofia" y se compone de cinco libros en prosa y verso. Esta obra esta escrita en forma de dialogo entre el propio Boecio y Filosofia, personaje alegorico que se le aparece a Boecio para aclararle el...