Las dos sirenas y otros estudios de literatura tradicional

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

Little mouse decides to pull a prank his friends the bird and the squirrel by telling him that he has seen a blue wolf. What happens when a blue wolf actually appears?

In Gronjor, a world that's half light and half shadow, a group of hunters traverse the untamed dark side. They're headed towards the labyrinth, the most savage zone on the planet, populated by wild animals that work to throw center-seekers off their path. Gronjor's delicate equilibrium depends on this cruel process of selection controlled by the sorcerer Milosh. There's little cause for hope, except for a prophecy that speaks of an imminent change...

La antigua costumbre universitaria de solemnizar la apertura del curso escolar con un discurso conmemorativo produjo un abundante cuerpo de piezas oratorias en latín que solo el Renacimiento comenzó a valorar en su justa medida. Es por ello que, en su gran mayoría, los sermones o arengas de esta clase se han perdido para el periodo medieval. En este volumen se rescata uno de estos discursos, que tanto por sus fechas como por sus características puede considerarse el más importante de cuantos hoy se conocen para la península ibérica en la Edad Media. Pronunciado en la universidad de...