Desarrollo infantil y escritura

“Love, my dear, is the opium of the masses!” A tyrannical queen rules the island of Severia with an iron fist, while her loyal vizierienne is determined to persuade her that in the art of government and politics, it is better to be loved than feared. The steaks are high. Those who challenge the views of the trigger-happy monarch often perish in terrifying circumstances. Some fall down the stairs of the palace. Others die strangled by their own intestines. The most daring offenders are publicly beheaded by the queen’s trusted headswoman, Esther. She is a talented executioner whose fame...

Former SIS agent-runner Herbie Kruger and attractive SIS agent Pucky Curtiss interrogate Maestro Louis Passau, an orchestra conductor who has been accused of spying for Hitler and aiding the KGB, eliciting an extraordinary portrait of a brilliant but flawed man.

Este segundo tomo de Razones y pasiones, la suma cr tica de Julieta Campos, prosigue con la meta de recrear la geograf a de archipi lagos que, a la distancia y por la diversidad de intereses intelectuales, conforma la obra de esta escritora mexicana. Contiene los ensayos incluidos en Funci n de la novela, la herencia obstinada, Tabasco: un jaguar despertado, dos fragmentos del m s exc ntrico de sus libros, qu hacemos con los pobres? y cierra con una "Miscel nea" que recoge sus ensayos m s recientes y que no hab an sido incluidos en libros.

ÍNDICE: - Presentación. - Visión personal de Nicolás Guillén. - Nicolás Guillén y la identidad cubana. - Guillén, imagen editorial. - Federico García Lorca, Nicolás Guillén y el son.