Juan sin tierra

Bartolome Hidalgo (Montevideo, 1788 - Moron, Buenos Aires Province, 1822) is the first poet to have utilized the Spanish language to capture the qualities of gaucho speech His writings, comprising a series of lyrical, narrative and dialogic texts about current political concerns of the second and third decades of the 19th century in both margins of the Rio de la Plata, have been recognized by the most respected literary critics of the region -Sarmiento, Mitre, Leguizamon, Rojas, Falcao Espalter, Borges- as the initiation of this most original genre, and Hidalgo, consequently, the first...

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, cronista de la vida cotidiana de Barcelona. Manuel Vázquez Montalbán fue uno de los columnistas más influyentes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX español, Crónicas de Barcelona recoge tres crónicas periodísticas de su primera época, tres descripciones de tres clases sociales que marcaron una época: la alta burguesía franquista (1961), la clase popular (1961) y esa burguesía juvenil conocida como La Gauche Divine que protagonizó un nuevo movimiento cultural. Una sociedad que adquiere una luz muy particular bajo la pluma crítica de Vázquez Montalbán.

Poetry in English and Spanish, openly political, blatantly blunt, and religiously irreverent, reaches from the innermost corners of the soul to the streets of New York, to the battlegrounds of Central America, and finally to union with the godhead

This book provides an overview of the main routes and trends that the Mexican theater journeyed in the twentieth century. It specially seeks to link the texts, the ideas about the scene, the way of acting, the sense of direction and the public of that time. Therefore, its about approaching through different points of view to an integrated perspective of the theatrical phenomenon in Mexico over a century staging, text and society.