Author: Fernando Do Rosario Publisher: Mi Club de Cuentos ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 47
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¿Alguna vez has querido viajar en el tiempo y estar en otros lugares y épocas? Daria nunca había pensado en esa posibilidad, hasta que con la partida de su abuelo descubre un album de fotos muy curioso que le abre la puerta a pensar que esto es posible. Al ver a su abuelo en lugares y épocas que parecen muy diferentes a la que él vivió y fijándose en los detalles de las fotografías, Daria emprende una búsqueda para saber si lo que piensa es verdad.
Author: Elena Garro Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292789017 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and suspenseful, the novel does not depend for its effectiveness on narrative continuity. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the reader with a series of vivid impressions. The colors are bright, the smells pungent, the many characters clearly drawn in a few bold strokes. Octavio Paz, the distinguished poet and critic, has written that it "is truly an extraordinnary work, one of the most perfect creations in contemporary Latin American literature."
Author: Folke Gernert Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110695758 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 260
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Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Author: Valentina Virginia Mtz. Stroud Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 357
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Un accidente de carretera, del cual sobreviven los padres de dos ninas, cambia el rumbo de la vida de la mas pequena de tres anos, quien se va a vivir con los abuelos maternos. Anos despues, debe ser regresada con sus padres. Esa separacion le afecta emocionalmente, y nadie la ayuda. Ella busca sus propios medios de regresar con sus abuelos, pero muchos de sus intentos son malogrados. Entonces, se aferra a buscar como comprar una bicicleta, segura de que esa es la solucion para cumplir su objetivo. Esa obstinacion por obtener ese artefacto mecanico desencadena eventos inimaginables en su vida. Al fin, cuando lo logra... no te puedes perder con que se encuentra...
Author: Cirilo Villaverde Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199725233 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 545
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Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
Author: César Vallejo Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520040996 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : es Pages : 378
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The Translation judges for the National Book Awards--Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger--cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language. Eshleman and his present collaborator, Jose Rubia Barcia, have not only rendered these complex poems into brilliant and living English, but have also established a definitive Spanish test based on Vallejo's densely rewritten manuscripts. In recreating this modern master in English, they have also made a considerable addition to poetry in our language."
Author: Mark Davies Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134874537 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 1457
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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.
Author: Fernando Do Rosario
Author: Elena Garro
Author: Folke Gernert
Author: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Author: Valentina Virginia Mtz. Stroud
Author: Cirilo Villaverde
Author: César Vallejo
Author: Mark Davies
Author: Ernesto Nelson
Author: Gil Vicente