De brujos y naguales

"¿Conoces a Claude? ¡No es un perro cualquiera! Un paseo por la ciudad lo lleva a dar saltos y mover el trasero, para acabar como bailarín en un teatro ¡bajo los focos!"--Page 4 of cover.

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

La obra del grupo de escritores nucleado alrededor de la revista Orígenes (1944-1956) representa el mayor momento de la literatura cubana del siglo XX y equivale en importancia a la obra de los mexicanos de la revista Contemporáneos y a los argentinos de Sur. José Lezama Lima, Virgilio Piñera, Eliseo Diego, Fina García Marruz, Cintio Vitier son algunos de sus nombres. Al análisis de lo escrito por ellos, y al pronóstico de lo que serían en el futuro, dedicó María Zambrano su esclarecedor ensayo La Cuba secreta. Forjadores de obras espléndidas y disímiles, se encargaron también de ...