Sombras, censuras y tabús en los libros infantiles

Simple illustrations and text introduce young readers to various types of seeds; and includes instructions for a related activity. Presented in Spanish.

Lección magistral impartida por Pedro C. Cerrillo en el acto de inauguración del curso académico de la Universidad Española, presidido por SS.MM. los Reyes de España.

En Las renegadas, Lina Meruane propone una nueva lectura para la poesía de Gabriela Mistral Lina Meruane selecciona, reordena con atrevimiento y prologa a la Premio Nobel de Literatura, permitiendo leer de nuevos modos una poesía que ostenta el rango de lo clásico. «La poesía dialogante de la Mistral reniega del poder del territorio, entabla una relación fluida con la tierra y nos deja como legado la posibilidad de acabar con los viejos modelos de sociedad», dice Meruane en su prólogo. Y en efecto aquí vemos cómo la rebeldía, la extranjería, la incomodidad y la aspereza son los...

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...

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.