Recurso humano

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.

En 1919 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez viajó a Estados Unidos, laureado por un éxito espectacular. ¿Fue acaso un inesperado golpe de fortuna lo que convirtió “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” en todo un fenómeno editorial que iba a permitir a Blasco sumar un interesante nuevo capítulo a su hasta entonces novelesca biografía? Sea cual sea la respuesta, el triunfo del escritor en Norteamérica repercutió decisivamente en su trayectoria artística y personal, y al mismo tiempo contribuyó a despertar el interés hacia la literatura española al otro lado del Atlántico. Desde el estudio ...

Darrow was born a slave, but he became a weapon. He put an end to centuries of gold rule and became a powerful hero to the republic. Now he will have to risk everything that he has fought for in one last, desperate mission. His destiny intertwines with others. A young red woman flees from a miserable refugee camp and begins a new life that she never could have imagined. A former soldier must steal something precious or lose his life. Lisandro Au Lune, heir to the power in exile, wanders with his mentor, obsessed with recovering the life that Darrow destroyed. When one world ends, another...