Catalua En La Mano

This anthology of foundational sixteenth-century Spanish-language texts presents the European side of the discovery and colonization of the New World. Otto Olivera has chosen representative selections from the works of eighteen authors, including Garcilaso de la Vega, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Hernán Cortés, and Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Their writings present an impressive panorama of the first years of a real New World that could compete with any portrayed in European novels of chivalry or travel. To put these texts in historical context, Olivera has written...

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Una revolución para crear un sistema hasta entonces inédito que uniera lo mejor del socialismo y la democracia, que alumbrase una fórmula de justicia en libertad; una contrarrevolución para restaurar el capitalismo y arrancar a Checoslovaquia de la "comunidad socialista"; una reforma del régimen comunista para hacer más eficaces sus métodos y estructuras. Todo eso fue ¿y a la vez no fue¿ lo que se conoció en el mundo como Primavera de Praga, dependiendo de quién la juzgase y de dónde pusiera el foco. Porque el proceso no tuvo una dirección y un sentido únicos. Este es el relato...