Obras Completas Volumen II

"In August 1592, a sheriff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Fray Juan de la Cruz, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, who died the year before, to his final abode in Segovia. When they find him 'incorrupt and as fresh as when he died,' there is an ecstatic fervor for the friar's body...all kinds of adventures and misfortunes happen, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythological deeds. The story told by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the friar's verses, as if they had prophesied the delirium...

Aunque expresarlo pueda resultar un tanto pretencioso, María José García y José Saramago comparten experiencias comunes: ambos comenzaron a desarrollar su pasión literaria alrededor de los cincuenta años. No hace falta por consiguiente explicaciones exhaustivas para cerciorarse de que el tiempo no es óbice para desplegar el duende que habita dentro de los seres sensibles, para plasmarlo, como en este caso, en forma de relatos. Diario de una desempleada y otros cuentos, constituye un retrato de la realidad cotidiana de nuestro tiempo, una pancarta molesta esgrimida desde lo alto de la...

La violencia y los cambios socioculturales - La desintegración social en Colombia - Los grupos de presión en Colombia - Crítica y autocrítica - Discurso ante los estudiantes - Declaración del 24 de junio de 1965 - Consignas del Frente Unido - Mensaje a los cristianos - Mensaje a los comunistas - Mensaje a los no alineados - Mensaje a los sindicalistas - Mensaje a los campesinos - Cartas personales - Proclama a los colombianos.

Francisco Calcagno was one of the most prolific authors of Cuban XIX century, and yet one of the less studied by critics and scholars. His novels focused on blacks are nonetheless essential to understand how the creole elites view blacks and the fears they felt about the influence of blacks in a Cuba white and Spaniard. What could it then better than to read Aponte, along with Prof. Moran's insightful introductory study. There we find an excellent balance between history and fiction, archive material and criticism. In Prof. Francisco Moran's skillful hands Calcagno's novel becomes a literary...