Al hijo que no tengo

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...

El lenguaje: diferencias culturales y desigualdades sociales constituye una introducción al análisis de las desigualdades sociales y su influencia en la constitución de los procesos cognitivos por medio de los recursos y habilidades lingüísticas. Esta obra está concebida como un manual válido tanto para los estudiosos del tema como para todos aquellos que se dedican al mundo de la docencia. En general los docentes continúan rechazando en sus reflexiones y prácticas la consideración de las desigualdades sociales, culturales y lingüísticas como un elemento decisivo del rendimiento y ...

This study uses a novel by Guatemalan writer Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel prize, to analyze the construction of Guatemalan identity at the end of the 1940s and to consider the factors involved in representing a Third World country.

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions