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Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Salvar a los clásicos del olvido, con la ayuda de grandes escritores de hoy. Este es el sentido de «Save the Story», una colección ideada por Alessandro Baricco. los autores seleccionan las escenas más emocionantes y significativas de los libros en cuesti

En este ensayo se aventura que mediante la reconfiguración del motivo del cuerpo insepulto Revueltas nos lleva a sopesar la diferencia mínima y al mismo tiempo abismal que divide al uno y al mismo objeto de sí mismo, ejercicio que a un tiempo nos coloca en el núcleo radicalmente inhumano del sujeto y en la incomunicación natal del lenguaje. Revueltas se ocupa narrativamente de las burocracias comunistas (bajo sus formas de Estado y partido), pero sus formulaciones literarias bien pueden aplicarse a las democracias que dejan el paso franco a la tortura y la desaparición, persiguen la...

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...