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"The Brevas (early fruit of the fig tree) are ripening" -as Cornelio Saavedra so eloquently expressed- and will stand out fully seasoned during the week in May 1810. "Las Brevas Maduras" chronicles...

First published in 1903 A fuego lento has all the elements to be considered a veritable roman ? clef: its first part takes place in some caribbean place that under the despective name of Ganga hardly...

The memoirs of Emilio Pettoruti ( La Plata 1892-Paris 1971) "A painter before the Mirror" was published a few years before the painter s death. Not only do we witness the vicissitudes of his struggle...

Silvina Ocampo (1903-93), author of seven volumes of poetry and more than three hundred short stories, was a member of Argentina's Sur generation, the extraordinary group of writers who initiated...

This dictionary aims to include all the cultural data pertaining to the Argentine Republic, starting at the most remote times up to the present. With this work the author, French historian,...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's classic novel in a new, annotated edition. First published in 1889, Aves sin nido drew fiery protests for its unsparing expose of small town officials, judicial...

Bartolome Hidalgo (Montevideo, 1788 - Moron, Buenos Aires Province, 1822) is the first poet to have utilized the Spanish language to capture the qualities of gaucho speech His writings, comprising a...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent...

Martin Fierro, the argentine poem, has been subject to numerous ideology biased interpretations. This appropriation, sometimes outrageous, has spurred the discussion whether Martin Fierro or Domingo...

Jos? Mar?a de Pereda (1833-1906) is one of the most important spanish writers of the XIX Century. His writings reflect the everyday life and customs of small villages and rural communities in the...

The painful and violent testimony of cruelties incurred by the Spanish conquistadors in the new world, concisely depicted by Bartolom? de Las Casas in his "Brev?sima relaci?n de la destruyci?n de las...

This essay is the contribution of a remarkable scholar to the explanation -and hopefully solution- of a conflict that is deeply rooted in history but whose implications poison the national life,...

On November 2 1837 the opening of Carlos II el Hechizado (Charles II the bewitched) at the Teatro del Principe in Madrid, Spain, became one of the greatest scandals of its times. The play is about an...

Cecilia Valdes, one of the jewels of nineteenth-century Latin American fiction, displays a thematic complexity that is unique among the novels of its time. Cecilia, the alluring mulata, has come to...

Witty and humorously written in colloquial Cuban, One hundred bottles in a wall (2002), anatomy of a double murder, takes place in the '90s Havanna, amidst the crisis provoked by the collapse of the...

Dr. Felix Luna, the most prestigious Latin American history scholar, discusses the merger process of the Spanish and precolumbian American cultures. Crashes and conflict anecdotes are overlooked, and...

"Cronicas desde el Pais vecino" (Chronicles from the country next door) is a collection of short chronicles published in Mexican newspapers in the late 1990s by Luis Arturo Ramos. The essays all...

Author: Carlos OdellPublisher: StockceroPublication Date: Jun 14, 2006Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9871136528ISBN-13: 9789871136520

The Short Stories of La Habana Elegante appeared for the first time in the homonymous magazine in 1887, intended, according to its editors, to stimulate our literates, opening for them the...

IndexFACUNDO DON JUAN MANUEL JUSTO JOS? CAPTAIN FUNES REVENGE THE LEFT HANDED SOLDIER PITCHER BAD DRINK THE BACKGROUND FROM A KNOWN STORY BRAIDER TO THE RESCOLD THE HOLE NIGHT THE MUTUAL DEBT...

Who wishes within the vast field of culture to enter the life experiences, habits and customs of the argentine people, will find in "Cuentos del hormiguero", these fifty eight short stories by Tibor...

Myth and legend have existed in Mexico in prehispanic times as a means to transmit cosmogonical or ethological visions. During the colonial period short stories appear intertwined in the many...

In Spanish, annotated edition. Witness to the devastating effect of the religious problem in Spain -more acute during the first years of the the Bourbon Restoration (1875)- and the terrible clash...

Deeply involved with the social issues of his times Romulo Gallegos crafted his representation of the stratified society around him by building upon firmly grounded and widespread images. These...

Completed in 1819 and approved by the censorship in 1820, "Don Catr?n de la Fachenda" was the last novel written by Jos? J. Fern?ndez de Lizardi, and the only one that remained unpublished until...

Inspired in Don Segundo Ramirez, a cattle drover Ricardo G?iraldes met personally and whose tomb lies in San Antonio de Areco, very close to the author's own, don Segundo Sombra more than a novel is...

Orthographic signs (diacritic marks, punctuation marks, and signs and symbols that are part of the Spanish writing system) are the essential pillars of any communicative structure, as they allow it...

"Dulce due?o" [Sweet Master] (1911), the last novel by Emilia Pardo Baz?n, challenges the rigid classifications imposed on the author throughout her literary career. It is an anti-dogmatic novel that...

El a?o del desierto is the story of a year in the life of Maria Valdes Neylan, narrated by herself, from somewhere in Ireland or England. The novel narrates the (literal) dissolution of a city...