Border Crossings

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

En lo mas crudo del invierno, un osito blanco camina por el bosque buscando refugio y finalmente encuentra una casa dónde una niña solitaria está deseando encontrar un amigo.

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

Con este texto, Roger Bartra inauguró el III simposio del libro electrónico, realizado el 10 de septiembre de 2010 en el Museo de Antropología e Historia de la ciudad de México. Roger Bartra, compartió con los asistentes a dicha ponencia -y ahora con los lectores de este ebook- una profunda reflexión sobre la lectura, la escritura, la memoria humana y las memorias externas, además del tan connotado dilema del libro impreso contra el libro electrónico. El autor hace un breve pero puntual recorrido por las ideas que han configurado la percepción generalizada de la memoria y la...