Voces de Chernóbil

No ha habido en el siglo XX un género de canción más gustado y degustado por los hispanohablantes. Nacido cubano y renacionalizado mexicano, el bolero es hoy una música universal y todos los países de nuestra área lingüística han sido sus consumidores, bastantes de ellos sus creadores. No hay duda de que ha sido y es, en mayor medida que otras, la gran canción latinoamericana. Pero, además, es un baile, el más democrático (y pecaminoso, en su día) de todos los de parejas enlazadas, y una forma de poesía que entronca con la más ilustre tradición lírica occidental: aquella que, ...

Un hombre ve a una persona idéntica a un viejo amigo de la juventud lo cual lo hace reflexionar sobre la nostalgia, la amistad y el pasado.

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...

This collection of essays presents views on Don Quijote by noted Latin American philosophers, historians, sociologists, poets, and novelists. It intends to make the student of Hispanic culture aware of the profound love and admiration that Hispanic America has always demonstrated toward Cervantes and his masterpiece. Until now, the contributions of Latin American intellectuals to Cervantine studies have largely been ignored in publications in the United States. Written in Spanish, this text will be useful to the student and scholar of Hispanic literature and Latin American Studies.