Pobreza y desigualdad social en la narrativa costarricense: 1890-1950

Este libro recoge tres obras de Enrique Bernardo Núñez, "Don Pablos en América," "Cubagua" y "La Galera de Tiberio," las cuales ahora se publican por primera vez en conjunto, constituyendo las mismas el centro del proyecto narrativo de este destacadísimo escritor venezolano. Estas obras, que fueran escritas entre las décadas de 1920 y 1930, invitan a una reconsideración historiográfica del aporte venezolano a la renovación narrativa continental del Siglo XX. Alejado tanto del regionalismo como de la incipiente beligerancia vanguardista, Enrique Bernardo Nuñez anticipó aspectos...

"El perro ladra, el gato maulla, el pato parpea, el búho ulula, pero ¿sabes cómo habla el elefante? ¿y el mono? ¿y la mosca ¿o la serpiente? Descubre qué sonidos emiten los animales y qué nombre tienen sus voces!"--Lacentral.

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...