Putrefactio

Ines is a nine-year-old girl who spends the afternoons with her neighbor Lupe, an elderly woman with a vivid imagination. Lupe asks Ines to write letters to son Lucas, however, reality and fantasy seem to blend in Lupe's mind, as if some mice were gnawing at her memories.

Mujeres en transito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-44), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-92), Eduarda Mansilla (1834-92), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909). Each author traveled and wrote in different and significant moments in the history of the Latin American nations, and their texts touch upon the nature of hemispheric and European cross-cultural relations. Mujeres en transito revises the...

Primera traducción de esta obra al español La influencia de los samuráis y de su código de Bushido en las costumbres y en la ética japonesas es incalculable. Estos "caballeros guerreros" surgieron en el siglo XII y tuvieron su auge durante los 700 años que duró la época feudal del sogunado, quedando sus pautas de conducta tan arraigadas en la sociedad japonesa que llegaron a conformar el espíritu nacional del Japón. El código del samuray data del siglo XVI y constituye un tratado único sobre las leyes y preceptos internos de estos aristócratas guerreros. Este código cubre todos...

Edited, translated, and introduced by Luis A. Ramos-Garcia Based on the princeps edition (1801) and preceded by a lengthy introductory study, this critical annonated edition documents key aspects of Spain's controversial Age of Reason, particularly the uncertain shifts in ideas, and the peculiarities of Montengon's idiosyncratic philosophical system.