Flores de invierno

Prólogo de Francesc EscribanoContracubierta de Eduardo GaleanoPEDRO CASALDÃLIGAEn la Amazonia del Mato Grosso se le conoce como Dom Pedro, un hombre de aspecto frágil que lleva más de tres décadas alzando su voz a favor de los más pobres de entre los pobres. Su divisa es no poseer nada, no llevar nada, no pedir nada, no callar nada y, de paso, no matar nada y con ella ha desafiado a los latifundistas, especuladores y militares de São Felix do Araguaia y a la Iglesia Católica que lo ordenó obispo un ya lejano 23 de octubre de 1971. Desde entonces, Pedro Casaldáliga (Balsareny,...

Leal recounts his experiences as a "child of the Mexican Revolution, " recalling the entrance of Villa and Zapata into Mexico City. He describes his life in Chicago from 1927 to 1943 and then in the Philippines as a member of the American armed forces. He also discusses his academic career and his contributions to Chicano literary criticism. The unusual format of a conversation between two friends gives readers a taste of the "tertulias" that Don Luis hosts, at which colleagues, friends, and students discuss literature, life, and art, thus reviving the Hispanic tradition of the "literary...

Antón Chejov, nos presenta un relato con referente en las diferencias sociales, muy triste y torturado, donde una niña, Varka tendrá que trabajar como criada para sobrevivir. Los patrones la desprecian y humillan, la hacen trabajar día y noche hasta que enajenada por el sufrimiento y la rabia matará al bebé de los patrones para poder dormir.

Aurora Caceres' compelling novel "La rosa muerta" was set in Paris where it was published in 1914. In a work sharing formal characteristics with modernista prose, Caceres challenged the ideological parameters of the movement. While her protagonist appropriated the modernista precept of women as subjects to male veneration, she also took active control of her sexual life in a world where husbands still treated their wives as objects. The objects in this novel are not people but implements of communication and medicine, reflective of the apogee of the industrial age. The action, which takes...