Julio Cortázar

Angelina's annoyance at having to take her little cousin Henry to the fair turns into friendship after a day filled with adventures and surprises.

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.

Fray Luis de Len (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. He spent five years imprisoned in solitary confinement by the Spanish Inquisition, fighting to clear himself of a series of accusations against his views on the Bible. Acquitted on all counts, he returned to teach at the University of Salamanca. This book examines the controversies in which Fray Luis was caught up, and investigates the ...

Los ensayos reunidos en este volumen se concentran en la producción de narrativa de ficción, novela y cuento, y ofrecen una cobertura amplia de esta producción desde el año 1920 al año 2000. Los ensayos han sido distribuidos en tres secciones. El material de la primera ofrece lo que normalmente entendemos como una forma reconocible de presentar el origen y desarrollo de la narrativa contemporánea en el Perú. Se trata, en gran medida, de asuntos, géneros, obras y autores a partir de los cuales se ha definido el canon de esta narrativa a lo largo de las décadas de 1920 y 1970. La...