El reino interior

Desde los tiempos de Iván el Terrible, generaciones de líderes rusos han convertido el Kremlin en una fortaleza, equipando el laberinto que forma su subsuelo con cámaras acorazadas y tesoros de valor incalculable. Michael Saint Pierre, maestro entre ladrones, tiene la mayor de las motivaciones para orquestar un asalto al santuario del poder ruso: dos vidas están en juego. Y miles de años de creencias religiosas penden de su éxito o su fracaso.

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

La modernizacion de Japon desde su apertura a occidente en 1853, se manifesto tambien en el campo de las letras. El autor analiza este fenomeno considerando la literatura como una forma de expresion ideologica.

Text in Spanish. Pedro Páramo, the only novel published by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, is a masterpiece. Tras los murmullos offers six different readings and analyses of the novel by Mexican and Scandinavian scholars. Contrary to what might be expected, the Scandinavian reader is able to identify with the solitude of the characters in the novel, the language of few words of the peasants and the careful linguistic awareness of Rulfo. This may not be surprising since Rulfo was, as discussed in one of the chapters, inspired by Scandinavian literature, which he admired. Also discussed here is ...