En el corazón

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

¿Quién fue "María Antonia"? Es la incógnita de la que parte el autor de esta obra singular, Ángel Sody de Rivas. Como primer material, el programa de mano de un recital de poesía ofrecido en Madrid, en el Teatro de la Comedia. ¿Quién fue esta recitadora que presentaba su arte en el Madrid de 1935, avalada por los textos de dos personajes de máxima relevancia: el poeta Juan Ramón Jiménez y el dramaturgo Eduardo Marquina? (Hermosa referencia en la sustancia del retrato como huella fugaz de una órbita olvidada...) Y como tantas veces para el juanramoniano Sody de Rivas, estará el...

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...

"El Apocalipsis está cerca. Su fin también. Pero al mismo tiempo encontrará algo que jamás esperó hallar : el amor."-- Back cover.