Diamela Eltit

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

This is the story of a fire-breathing dragon that is captured by the concerned citizens of a small, isolated country. After refusing to join the army, the peace-loving dragon is put in a cage. He soon escapes and proves to all that dragons and humans can get along if they are willing to put in a little effort to understand each other.

Las formas del crimen desarrolladas durante la Violencia en Colombia alcanzaron niveles de crueldad inéditas en el país. Poco después de que el Partido Conservador llegara al poder en 1946, amplios sectores del mismo buscaron ampliar sus disminuidas bases políticas mediante la destrucción física y moral del liberalismo. En el Valle del Cauca, algunos dirigentes conservadores constituyeron y financiaron bandas de asesinos que, en asocio con policías y detectives, emprendieron campañas de homogenización conservadora a través tanto del asesinato selectivo como de masacres perpetradas...

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.