El ruido de las nueces

"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...

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...

Ésta recopilación de memorias migrantes, presenta una sola historia. Es la historia de un pueblo—el oprimido, el pueblo vagabundo—el cual sabe del dolor que dejan las balas, el hambre y la sangre derramada, propiciadas por los pilares de un sistema antidemocrático y capitalista. En ese pueblo ambulante, sus seres aun creen en los sueños, buscan con fervor aquel mundo ecuánime, donde a todos los hombres y mujeres se les trata con dignidad y respeto. Mortales decisiones políticas, sangrientas guerras, viajes lejanos, derramando sangre y en oscuridad; estos han sido la herencia...

Ocho artículos académicos de Claudio Maíz, María Paula Pino Villar, Alejandro Paredes, Emiliano Matías Campoy, Pablo Ponza, Ramiro Esteban Zó y Gabriel Motali, sobre las redes intelectuales que se crearon en Latinoamérica durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX en torno de las revistas culturales Crisis, Forja y Terra.