Border Crossings

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...

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."

Quizá sea esta la más polémica obra de su autor, vinculada a la aparición de la Modernidad, y constituye la tercera entrega de la serie de estudios que la Real Sociedad Menéndez Pelayo viene publicando sobre sus producciones más destacadas en los años previos al primer centenario de su fallecimiento.

El oficio solía permitirle al editor el lujo de enfocarse exclusivamente en el libro: alguna vez pudo limitarse a leer, encontrar nuevos talentos y consagrar, por medio de su catálogo, lo que le parecía indispensable aportar a la cultura. Hoy el editor aún considera factores culturales antes de tomar una decisión respecto a qué publicar; sin embargo —para bien, para mal—, a ese tren de decisiones ahora se suman aspectos económicos, administrativos, legales, logísticos, tecnológicos, políticos, inclusive. No basta encontrar un manuscrito deslumbrante: hay que saber vender ese...