El Caribe universal

Candela always passes in front of a house covered with vines on her way home from school. The old mansion has been abandoned for so long that it must be concealing some sort of mystery. She has kept her distance, fearfully quickening her pace, but today a disturbing detail has called her attention: the glass door to the first-floor balcony is ajar. And if that isn't enough, she also seems to hear a whispering voice. Is there someone in the house? Curiosity can be more powerful than fear, and Candela obeys her instinct and crosses the threshold to find out who--or what--is hiding within.

La construccin de subjetividades femeninas en el contexto de la violencia en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay.

Una novela poderosa y sorprendente sobre el conflicto armado colombiano. En esta novela El ejército y La Fuerza (la guerrilla) libran combates sangrientos ya por inercia, como signados por un destino inevitable, y prácticamente sin recordar las motivaciones por las cuales empuñan las armas, o sin ya creer en ellas. Les queda, por fortuna, una vida que sí intentan entender y en la que sí creen poder incidir, una vida rica en la que confluyen sus amores, sus miedos, sus alegrías, y en la que el odio y las discordias sólo surgen por razones personales y, en definitiva, más humanas. En...

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...