La convaleciente de Hades

This critical edition of the novel Sab (published in 1840 in Madrid) is based on the Cuban printing of the 1970s. It is of particular interest not only because of its aesthetic qualities but also because it addresses issues of interest both for the period in which it was written and contemporary audiences. Among these topics are slavery, basic rights of the individual in society, nationalism, and women's issues.

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...

El amor como imperativo de exelencia es un movimiento de fidelidad a sí mismo y a las cosas. Es lo que para Ortega significa la definición platónica del amor como un "deseo de engendrar belleza", la aspiración al ser en plenitud, al ser en forma. Eso es lo que constituye el ideal de cada cosa, y no es exclusivamente nuestro.

"A Marco acaban de regalarle un caballo balancín por su cumpleaños, en cuanto se monta en él, empieza a volar por el espacio hasta posarse en otro planeta. Nada más llegar, se da cuenta de que allí las cosas son muy distintas que en la tierra. ¡Y de que todavía lleva puesto su pijama rojo!"--P. [4] of cover.