Historia y biografías
Death of Tragedy
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This book is important-and portentous-for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start controversy. . . . The very passion and insight with which he writes about the tragedies that have moved him prove that the vision still lives and that (...)
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
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Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the (...)
Oscar and Lucinda
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Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed . . .Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker (...)
The Child that Books Built
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Fairy tales and Where the Wild Things Are, The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books, Little House on the Prairie and The Earthsea Trilogy. What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this widely (...)
In the Fold
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Michael first met the Hanburys of Egypt Hill when he was a young student. He was intrigued and delighted by their bohemian lifestyle and bravado. Twelve years later, married with a young son, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his increasingly turbulent (...)
>Mr Vertigo
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I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water . . .' So begins Mr Vertigo, the story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken back to the mysterious house on the plains to prepare not only for the ability to (...)
La política: júbilo y esperanza
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En este libro se reúne parte de un largo intercambio epistolar entre dos actores fundamentales de la vida política en México: Manuel Gómez Morin y Luis H. Álvarez que va desde 1956, año en que se conocieron durante una convención en la cual Acción Nacional designaría a su candidato a la gubernatura (...)
Dont´t shoot the poet
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Anne Sainz nació en Liverpool en 1945 y nunca conoció a los Beatles aunque le hubiese encantado tener su propia banda de rock. Frustrado ese sueño, se dedicó a montar academias de inglés en Ibiza y Madrid. Ha dedicado los últimos cuatro años a descubrir los placeres de la escritura. Está en (...)
The aesthetics of LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka
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Baraka Is one of the most influential writers of contemporary Afro-American literature. For the past thirty-five years his presence in the literary Diaspora has been one of the most persistent and controversial. Baraka spoke in the University Theater and requested that the black students congregate (...)
Zero Plus One
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Study for a new global proposing a non Eurocentric Comparative Literature. In the first place, the author applauds Comparative Literature globalization and their movements out of the eurocentrism. The new globalization of Comparative Literature has the need to institutionalize in their curricula (...)