Los Bildungsromane femeninos de Carmen Boullosa y Sandra Cisneros

Translated from the Latin. The original Latin versions were published in 1997 under the title: Chronica Hispana saeculi XIII (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis; 73).

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Este manual se organiza en dos grandes partes: una sistemática, que a su vez se divide en otras. En la primera se trata de la definición de la literatura y de las disciplinas que la tienen como objeto de estudio; y en la otra se hace una presentación de las cuestiones referidas a los géneros literarios. La segunda parte trata de la historia de la teoría del siglo XX, organizada en tres bloques: formalismos, estilística y teorías de la lengua literaria, corrientes que van más allá del texto.

Martin is an expert at losing things, but his mom and grandmother were used to it and took it with patience and a sense of humor. "You'll have to sew your things onto your hands," they told him. Martin didn't let it worry him so much until the day he lost his most beloved possession: the family photo album. He's determined to find it at any cost--but where do lost treasures go? Martin embarks on a fantastic journey to the land of lost things, where he meets great friends, terrible monsters, and an unforgettable adventure. But will he find his album?