Tras la ruta del hambre

Babel, Bulgákov, Mandelshtam, Platónov o Gorki son sólo algunos de los dos mil escritores rusos que desaparecieron durante los años del terror en las grandes purgas promovidas por Stalin. Una persecución que se prolongó más allá de sus muertes, puesto que sus biografías fueron falsificadas y sus manuscritos inéditos escamoteados, lo que dejó al país sin referentes intelectuales ajenos al stalinismo. Vitali Shentalinski aprovechó la apertura de la perestroika para urdir un plan que hasta ese momento era descabellado: enfrentarse al Partido y a la administración soviética para...

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas...

A trip back to the world of Jane Austen and the homes she lived in with noted historian Lucy Worsley.

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...