Épocas Y Avances

A series of interviews on the subject of the Pope's visit to Cuba from Jan. 21-25, 1998, by the following persons: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Frei Betto, Roger Etchegaray, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Wayne Smith, Assata Shakur, Charles B. Rangel, Miguel Barnet, Raúl Suárez, Jesús Montané, Ricardo Alarcón; also includes speeches given by the Pope and Fidel Castro during that time.

Basada en una noticia real que apareció en un periódico, Federico García Lorca escribe una pieza magistral, Bodas de Sangre, en la que la pasión convierte el amor y el honor familiar en lujuria y deslealtad el mismo día de la boda de dos grandes fortunas. Based on a real piece of news that appeared at a newspaper, Bodas de Sangre by Federico García Lorca is a masterly play in which passion turns love and family honour into lust and disloyalty the same day of the wedding of two great fortunes.

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...

Tomas Segovia y Angelina Muniz pertenecen a un grupo de escritores conocidos como los -Hispanomexicanos-. La mayoria de los estudios sobre esta generacion se han centrado en el papel que el exilio juega en los primeros anos de su produccion y han dejado de lado el papel que este juega mas alla de dicha etapa, al considerar que tras esos primeros anos la mayoria pasan a tratar temas diferentes y se olvidan del exilio. Sin embargo, a traves de un analisis de la obra poetica de Muniz y Segovia, este libro pretende demostrar que el exilio continua jugando un papel central mas alla de esa primera...