Los celtas

"¿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.

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

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...

El incendiario paso de Mistral por Castilla, la trastienda de la “Oda al hígado” de Neruda, la religiosidad en Violeta Parra, el soplo poético insuflado por Goethe a las polémicas naturalistas de su tiempo, o el testimonio de su amistad con T.S. Eliot de una violista chilena, son algunos de los muchos y electrizantes artículos contenidos en Palabra recobrada. Un siglo de ensayos literarios en la Revista Universitaria, la primera antología de la señera publicación de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Desde su aparición en 1915, autores como Pedro Prado, Alfredo Bryce...