Imaginar y crear el futuro (Segunda edición, corregida y aumentada)

Praise for Mezcal: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind as only the very best books manage to do."—Harry Crews "The author . . . excavates his own tormented life—and its relation to the land he loves—in a series of powerful, imagistic autobiographical essays. Like the desert he cherishes, this memoir is harsh yet lovely, full of sour self-truth. . ...

El trágico crimen cometido en un barrio tranquilo de una poblada ciudad ¿El autor? Un pequeño con apenas ocho años de edad. La amistad, fútbol y terror abundan en las manos que derramaron sangre un miércoles por la aurora, esas mismas manos enfrentan la justicia y un propósito de vida.

Asoman por estas páginas escritores egregios como Borges, Jünger, Goethe, Mann, Hesse, Dostoievski, Stevenson o Primo Levi, y otros anónimos como un chamán groenlandés o un poeta amazónico, además de reflexiones sobre el papel del intelectual, la frontera y la identidad o los caprichos de la Historia; encuentros con personajes de sinuosos destinos y redescubrimientos de obras hoy olvidadas. La literatura y la vida fluyen y se entremezclan en este libro memorable.

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking anthology—to be...