Blasco Ibáñez en Norteamérica

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

Juana Borrero (1877 - 1896) - Modernist poet, born in Puentes Grandes, Havana, Cuba. She also excelled in painting. As a poet, she was considered a precocious girl. Her father, Esteban Borrero, was a short stories writer of and a poet; and her sister, Dulce Maria Borrero, excelled at poetry and prose. Therefore, Juana grew up in an artistic and literary atmosphere, amid literary circles and gatherings attended by other writers like Carlos Pio and Federico Uhrbach, as well as Julian del Casal. While still very young, Juana took painting classes, first with Dolores Desvernine, and later on, in...

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...

Este libro recoge tres obras de Enrique Bernardo Núñez, "Don Pablos en América," "Cubagua" y "La Galera de Tiberio," las cuales ahora se publican por primera vez en conjunto, constituyendo las mismas el centro del proyecto narrativo de este destacadísimo escritor venezolano. Estas obras, que fueran escritas entre las décadas de 1920 y 1930, invitan a una reconsideración historiográfica del aporte venezolano a la renovación narrativa continental del Siglo XX. Alejado tanto del regionalismo como de la incipiente beligerancia vanguardista, Enrique Bernardo Nuñez anticipó aspectos...