Este infierno mío

When he was outcast, Torak was the hunted one. Nine moons later he becomes the hunter when he vows to avenge the killing of one of his closest friends. Racked by guilt and grief, he follows the killer into the Deep Forest, where the World Spirit stalks the hidden valleys as a tall man with a stag's antlers.

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...

Si bien este estudio se limita a un determinado autor, el poeta chileno Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), y a una obra en particular, "Altazor o el viaje en paracaidas" tanto autor como obra son piedras de toque de la complejidad y variedad del quehacer poetico del presente siglo. Ya era hora de dedicarle un analisis -exhaustivo- a la obra mas ambiciosa de Huidobro. El presente estudio usa un enfoque teorico distinto en cada uno de sus cinco capitulos para explorar los elementos ideologico-esteticos, estructurales, lexicologicos, simbolicos y metricos encontrados en el poema. Cada via teorica, a...

The compilation "La Habana Elegante. Segunda epoca. XV Anniversary (1998-2012). Julian del Casal (In Memoriam)" produced by prof. Francisco Moran offers a wide selection of memories, testimonies, and critical readings on Julian del Casal (Havana, 1863-1893), and of literary works inspired by his work and poetic figure that attest to the fascination that for already more than a century the poet of Nieve has exerted on Cuban and other Latin American writers. Included are texts from already classic authors such as: Ruben Dario, Jose Marti, Paul Verlaine, Jose Lezama Lima, Cintio Vitier, Dulce...