Ensayos y perfiles

Including Homage to Catalonia 'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighting in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism, essays, letters and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened amid a 'crop of lies' from...

“Baúl de alharacas” es un libro que agrupa los artículos publicados en la revista “ATALAYAR entre dos orillas” y en la web RedMarruecos.com ; además de otros inéditos escritos durante los últimos dos años. Con una temática variada y una narrativa personalista el autor nos traslada desde el apasionado texto “Historias del converso Sami Taleb M”, que constituye por si solo un ensayo paradigmático del canto a la amistad mediante el nostálgico relato de vivencias y recuerdos. Hasta la hermosa e impresionante carta anónima de “Llueve en Haiti, y mucho”, la estremecedora...

Francisco Calcagno was one of the most prolific authors of Cuban XIX century, and yet one of the less studied by critics and scholars. His novels focused on blacks are nonetheless essential to understand how the creole elites view blacks and the fears they felt about the influence of blacks in a Cuba white and Spaniard. What could it then better than to read Aponte, along with Prof. Moran's insightful introductory study. There we find an excellent balance between history and fiction, archive material and criticism. In Prof. Francisco Moran's skillful hands Calcagno's novel becomes a literary...

Seis relatos abordan el tema del abandono forzado de la patria desde el dolor y la esperanza, con la particular mirada de los niños y jóvenes que han sido sus protagonistas.