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The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary...

En Camino trans-andino, José Hernández, autor del Martín Fierro, hace públicas sus notas acerca de la exploración de los Andes con el propósito de construir un ferrocarril que una a Chile y Argentina.

DigiCat presents the George Orwell Collection -the greatest novels, poems, essays and autobiographical works of this great visionary in one volume: Novels: Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying Coming Up for Air Animal Farm 1984 Poetry: Awake! Young Men of England Kitchener Our Hearts Are Married, But We Are Too Young The Pagan Poem from Burma The Lesser Evil Romance Summer-like for an Instant The Italian Soldier Shook My Hand... Reflections on War and Society: Spilling the Spanish Beans Not Counting Niggers Prophecies of Fascism Wells, Hitler and the World State...

En pleno auge del régimen socialista, entre 1972 y 1977, Marcela del Río estuvo como agregada cultural de la embajada de México en lo que fuera Checoslovaquia. Es a partir de esa experiencia que configura la trama de La cripta del espejo, donde se narra el desmoronamiento de una familia, de un sistema político y de un México lacerado por la masacre del 2 de octubre del 68. Mientras que el personaje masculino –embajador, padre de familia, estadista diligente– padece los embates de un sistema político rancio, de pleitesías y servilismo, son las voces periféricas y subalternas –la...