Epistolario de Pilar de Zubiaurre (1906-1970)

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...

RESUMEN: Una comparación entre el poema «Nu» de Manuel Bandeira y «Amores 1.5» de Ovidio muestra semejanzas asombrosas que quedan confi madas en la lectura detallada de ambos y el comentario paralelo. El poema de Ovidio contiene la más hermosa descripción de un desnudo femenino de la literatura latina. Es por eso un texto que representa lo mejor de la Antigüedad. El de Bandeira, tan similar, es un muy bello texto de la literatura brasileña querepresenta lo mejor de la Modernidad. Se confirman la modernidad de Ovidio y la condición de clásico de Bandeira, equiparable a los grandes...

Each title in this series, created by teachers and writers, provides a complete and thoughtful analysis of several of the most valuable works of world literature. Intended as a starting point for a better understanding and appreciation of literature, each analysis also imparts information about the author, social and historical background information, structure and traditions of literary genres, facts about characters, and a bibliography to encourage further intellectual exploration. Esta coleccion es una herramienta indispensable para el estudio y analisis de obras clasicas de la literatura...

Ines is a nine-year-old girl who spends the afternoons with her neighbor Lupe, an elderly woman with a vivid imagination. Lupe asks Ines to write letters to son Lucas, however, reality and fantasy seem to blend in Lupe's mind, as if some mice were gnawing at her memories.