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No pocas afinidades nos brindan las vidas de Jaime Torres Bodet (1902-1974) y Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959). Su desempeno, cuando jovenes, en la administracion de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; una temprana y feraz produccion literaria; la aficion de Francia; el rigor como norma sin excepciones; el aliento de publicaciones periodicas; amistades matritenses, parisinas y bonaerenses; la carrera diplomatica; la pertenencia a la Academia Mexicana (Reyes da la bienvenida a Torres Bodet) y El Colegio Nacional. Sitio privilegiado, espejo de tales afinidades, es su correspondencia. La...

Aunque Henri Beyle, STENDHAL (1783-1842), debe sobre todo su celebridad como escritor a novelas de la talla de «La Cartuja de Parma» (L 5585) o «Rojo y negro» (L 5586), dedicó también buena parte de su tiempo a la reflexión escrita sobre el amor, el arte, la belleza y la vida social y política. En estos PASEOS POR ROMA, escritos entre 1828 y 1829 y redactados como diario ficticio con toda la libertad que la idea de paseo implica, el lector de hoy encontrará plasmada con fuerza y amor la belleza y la vida de la Roma de entonces, lugar que hoy como ayer impacta aún al visitante con la ...

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Pombo: a man of Che's guerrilla is a never-before-published story of the 1966-68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. It is the diary and account of Pombo - a member of Guevara's general staff, a young Cuban fighter still in his 20s and already a veteran of a decade of struggle around the globe. Harry Villegas, known the world over by his nom de guerre, Pombo, is today a brigadier general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. His day-by-day account of an epic chapter in the history of the Americas illuminates the times we are living through and foreshadows the titanic ...