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Through Hernando, his main character, the author speaks of the hope for a more peaceful co-existence between the Christian West and the Muslim East. Eugenio Fuentes has published works in more than a dozen countries, notably those of the series whose protagonist is the detective Ricardo Cupido. This time Cupido delves into an enthralling investigation, where alibis do not matter as much as the cloudy and desolate descriptions of the human condition. His investigation of that fight leads him to an unsolved murder which had occurred a few months previous.

He continues to search for answers even after it becomes clear that people at very high levels of the military government are involved in the crime. As a result the situation becomes very complicated. By means of the adventures of this character and his cases, the author sketches a portrait of the small virtues and great miseries of present-day Cuba. Marcio Veloz Maggiolo The story is told through the life of Ariel, who upon returning to Santo Domingo, finds himself with the task of complying with the dying wish of his friend Persio.

A kind of magic envelops the characters and the city and creates a complex story. CUNY Los mejores cuentos. This book is comprised of 14 stories ordered chronologically but with very different geographical settings, each of which is related in some very special way to Mexico. As the writer himself asserts, these 14 stories form a kind of literary autobiography. Salvador Vergara Instituto Cervantes Chicago www. Jorge Franco Vidal, a handsome young man, one day discovers a mark on his neck that is the warning of a fatal illness. He prefers that she make false suppositions.

It seems that Vidal dies soon and his condition as an omniscient dead man allows him to tell us about his life and family. The unravelling of the intrigue happens in small doses that keeps us on edge for nearly pages. Salvador Garmendia Salvador Garmendia is one of the most interesting novelists to come out of Venezuela in the 20th century. On the surface full of nostalgia, the political and social conflict of 19th century Venezuela are always in the background.

Humble workers on the hacienda are described with great tenderness, among them Vicente Cochocho who occasionally disappears to lead rebels whor are fighting against the government. One of a series of historical novels by this author. It is a story that not only portrays her suffering, the protagonist, but also reflects the long and arduous physical and methaphysical journey of immigrant women to unknown lands.

This great religious poem, presented as a collection of 25 tales, is written is an intimate, personal style. Berceo interspersed his narrative with simple humor and realistic homely detail which accentuate his at times almost mystical reverence. His populism and rustic language continue to exercise their spell and charm the modern reader. His other best known work is a vivid account of the life of Santo Domingo de Silos.

El misterio de la cripta embrujada. Eduardo Mendoza A very satiric, gothic novel set in Barcelona. Manuel Mujica Lainez By means of a series of chronologically arranged stories, the Argentine writer Mujica Lainez reconstructs the history of Buenos Aires since its foundation to the 20th century. An exquisite reconstruction of characters and epochs through the superb gifts for narrative and evocation by the author of another of the greatest novels in Spanish of all time, Bomarzo. One reviewer wrote that before dying Cruz examines the value of his existence. Ariel Dorfman NEW Death and the Maiden, a theatrical work by this renowned Chilean writer, was originally published in and taken to the screen by Roman Polanski in In , in collaboration with Armand Mattelert, he wrote Reading Donald Duck, where both describe the ideological components of the animations of Walt Disney, from the perspective of both Marxist and psychoanalytic theories.

Angeles Mastretta Set in Puebla, Mexico the stories recount the traditions and lives of Mexican women in past decades. This novel gained the author the Planeta Prize of Reinaldo Arenas This is the story of one amazing character, the candid and picaresque Fray Servando, a Latin American hero who finds himself fighting against the Spanish Inquisition during the time of the Mexican independence wars.

The novel is a dialogue between fiction and history, fantasy and magic, where some events are told from several perspectives. A whimsical, amazing read. Although putatively a work of fiction, it is narrated in such a convincing manner that the reader begins to doubt if what he or she is reading is real or science fiction.

I would classify it as a classic of Hispanic American contemporary science fiction for youngsters. Robert Zaman US Librarian www. It is a very modern novel. Carmen Laforet A feminist novel about a yound woman who moves to Barcelona to study in the wake of the Spanish Civil War. I recommend it because the author was well- known, and the stories are acknowledged all over the world.

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Miguel de Unamuno A key work in Spanish literature. In this novel, Unamuno tackles once again the golden theme of the ambiguity between reality and fiction, and combines it with the narrative innovation of dialogues between the creator and his characters. Lucho, like so many other children of families who immigrate, has to quickly adapt to the German way to help his parents.

Things are not easy for Lucho either. He has a bit of a rough time with the language, culture, and even the weather. Adapting takes time and problems arise during the acculturation process but Lucho ingeniously overcomes these and matures through the process. Jorge Volpi This novel narrates the great transformations of our time: In a style both elegant and profound, Volpi explores the avarice, the passion and the egotism which move human beings, within the political-historical context of globalization.

Juan Pablo Debesis Lectorum Nombre de torero. Insurance agents, German spies, and a series of rootless Chileans appear in a story that covers the history of world politics in the last decades of the 20th century. His background themes are the failure of utopias and the need to survive in spite of all obstacles and failures. Tarrago University of Minnesota www. Miguel de Cervantes The best short narratives in the Spanish language.

Others probably named Don Quixote, the obvious selection. But this volume definitively changed the course of short fiction in the Spanish language and profoundly influenced other European literatures. No subsequent novelist has escaped its influence. Edgardo Cozarinsky Relatively unknown until now by the public at large, Edgardo Cozarinsky is an Argentine filmmaker and writer who has resided in Paris since The Bride of Odessa La novia de Odessa is an excellent work from the literary point of view, combining fiction and memory in a fascinating way. Laura Restrepo This is one of the best of Latin American novels published in the last 20 years.

This book has been praised as factual, beautiful, funny, perceptive, luminous and unforgettable. Bernardo Atxaga Bernardo Axtaga is among those Basque writers whose work has been recognized and widely disseminated beyond the borders of Eusquera. Obabakoak is a collection of finely honed, humorous and ironic short stories. The stories are all set in Obaba, a somewhat magical imaginary region in the Basque country.

A magnificent work of universal scope. Better known as Tito, Monterroso—a native of Guatemala—is the reason this literary genre predicated on brevity has achieved maturity in Spanish. A clean and pleasant read, and highly recommended. A world which from the first to last page acquires the dimension of a universe from which the reader cannot escape. Juan Pablo Debesis Lectorum Ochenta y seis cuentos. Quim Monzo NEW Possessing an ironic, diverting, surrealistic, and tender style which is unmistakable, Quim Monzo is able to give his stories such unexpected turns which lead the reader to reflection, and for a time, confusion.

Monzo is one of the essential short story authors, and has been translated widely into Spanish and English from his native Catalan. The resulting multiplicity of sonorous registries allows the poet to delve deeply into language, into all languages, into the formal beauty of words and images. An author that needs to be rediscovered. The difficulties of immigration, from broken dreams, uprootedness and loss of identity, to poverty and despair are starkly evident, in part through the destabilizing use of both Catalan and Spanish. Rodolfo Walsh NEW A pioneering work in the genre of the non-fiction novel, which relates a real event in novelized form, namely, the execution by firing squad of groups of civilians suspected of having formed part of counter-coup against the military dictatorship in As such, Walsh introduces political criticism into the police story, and enriches the genre.

Committed to the revolution to the very end, he joined the list of those sadly known as the disappeared of the Argentine dictatorship. Composed as an intimate confidence made to the reader, this is one of the best works in Spanish of the modern era.

Volpi takes this incident out of its historical context and places it in a non-specific everywhere, a sad sequence of events that demonstrates the depths to which humans can sink and have sunk. This monumental and fortunate novel confirms the Mexican writer as a major novelist of her generation in an international context. A delectable and hilarious novel about efficiency, military devotion, and desire. Marlon, who is in love with Reina, decides to leave his home in Medellin, Colombia by following her to New York instead of going to university.

Alejo Carpentier One of the most important novels of Latin American literature of all times, it synthesizes the styles and themes of this distinguished author, one of the most ingenious writers in Western literature. Received an award for best foreign novel published in France in Using a fragmented narrative as a stylistic device to perhaps avoid sentimentality, Aramburu has produced an excellent indictment against all forms of fanaticism. Besides its elaborate plot and complex characters, this text is notable for reflecting rural life in Mexico after the revolution. Included is a brief biographical sketch of each other.

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The event was a bank robbery with the covert participation of various police officers and politicians, the treachery of the bank robbers who decide to flee with the money and the subsequent police chase. In preparing the novel, the author had access to confidential materials court witnesses, the transcription of the secret recordings made by the police during the robbery, the testimonial declarations, and journalistic accounts that allow him to reconstruct the events and plot, the characters and their speech, and the time in general, with great precision.

Blanca Valdecasas NEW A man becomes a widower this is not stated, but one intuits it, since the wife appears at the beginning. They have the perfect marriage, they love and adore each other, they live in Madrid and have 7 children! He is a painter and at that time he finds himself short of ideas and imagination, so they decide to pick up sticks and move to other side of the world, to Chile. The things that happen to them once they arrive in Chile are both comical and sad, but the author describes it all with great affection for her characters and a great sense of humor.

I was moved, especially by the descriptions of the Chilean landscape, the very peculiar characters who parade through its pages, and the interior world of the protagonist, who tries to remain sane in the midst of such a large family and adventures in a strange and fascinating land. This is a story filled with tenderness that makes one think about life, about the importance of human relationships, true firendship, and intimacy as an anchor. Little by little, the reader gathers that the wife died in an accident just before they all left Spain, a fact to which the husband cannot resign himself.

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The language is exquisite and the style impeccable. Gentle Arlington Public Library www. Various NEW This stunning collection of short stories captures the pure joy of reading and the magic of literature. Teresa Mlawer Lectorum Publications Primaver a con esquina rota. Mario Benedetti An Uruguayan political prisoner longs and hopes to leave prison one day and rejoin his wife and daughter in exile. But life and love follow their course. A great storyteller whose stories absorb the reader, Mario Benedetti offers this beautiful and bittersweet novel.

Santiago Roncagliolo NEW One of the most dazzling novels to appear in the world of Spanish literature in recent years, Modesty concerns itself with intimacy and with desires and fears that we dare not say aloud. In this novel, Roncagliolo provides us with a sharp, yet also tender, look on family relations. The plot derives its impetus from the corruption and disorder caused by authoritarianism and modern caudillismo, focusing on characters interwoven during a period of a continuing extralegal mandate. The author incorporates magical realist passages, providing a rich touch to the narrative.

This novel broke all records for sales in Dominican literary history. It was translated into English after becoming the most sold work during Rayuela refers to the game of hopscotch, which the latter reading resembles in format. Alejo Carpentier Internationally acclaimed writer Alejo Carpentier gives us this telling of the story of a dictator of an unnamed country in Latin America could be Cuba, Dominican Republic, Paraguay and how he deals with conspiracies, a student uprising engineered by the communists, and denies the subjugated peasantry of even their humble status in his society.

La Regenta is one of the most enchanting female characters in Spanish literature, richly detailed and full of psychological subtlety, and proceeding from a world and time when feminine passion dare not speak its name. Elvira Lindo Writer and Journalist www. She has led a difficult life. Then her boyfriend is killed and she knows she has to flee.

There she meets Santiago, a Galician who teaches her the business of trafficking in hashish, weapons, tobacco, etc. She makes deals with Italians and Russians and becomes a millionaire. We are told of her romances, triumphs, and deceptions. She returns to Mexico, she testifies against those who tried to hurt her, and then she disappears. The language is incredibly realistic and full of Mexican and Spanish slang.

The music of narcocorridos and rancheras permeates the entire novel in fact, the chapter titles are either song titles or lyrics from the same. The novel is immersed in popular culture and in the demimonde of the two continents actually, three continents. The action is recounted from the perspective of an unnamed journalist, who functions as an omniscient narrator who knows all the details of her life. He started writing poetry and short stories, and later devoted himself to novels that are characterized by their forceful and expressive originality, and populated by highly realistic characters.

He is a two-time winner and of the National Book Council Prize. He is currently one of the most widely-read writers in Chile. Alejo Carpentier The Kingdom of this World is one of those books which capture and amaze you in a real and marvelous world which will not let you be until you have read each and every one of its pages. The priest had baptized the young man, had educated him, and had even chosen him to be his altar boy.

Paco is sentenced to the firing squad, and the priest will be obliged to hear his confession before the execution. Gaspar Orozco Mexican Poet and Diplomat www. The objective of the community is not just survival as individuals or as a group, more than mere survival, what moves the group is the idea of return. Jorge Franco Story told from the point of view of a young man about his love for an assassin in Medellin, Colombia. Rosario loves Emilio but confides in Pacero. The latter recounts the friendship of the threesome, while Rosario lies dying in a hospital bed after being shot.

Edgardo Cozarinsky During the first half of 20th century, Argentina harbored a Jewish criminal organization called Zwi Migdal. This mafia style organization was formed by Jewish procurers who recruited young Jewish women from Russia, Galicia, and other parts of Eastern Europe to be prostitutes throughout Argentina. The Jewish community rejected outright, in life and in death, both the members of Zwi Migdal and their victims.

An Argentine residing in Paris, and descendant of artists in Buenos Aires Yiddish theater of that time, repeats and closes a family circle without knowing it. A portentous narrative from the Argentine filmmaker and writer Edgardo Cozarinsky, and stroke of luck for those who not yet read the novel. Romantic in both style and atmosphere, this is indispensable reading to learn about the narrative of the period. Torrente Ballester was awarded the Cervantes Prize in Lantigua pays homage to the many men and women who contributed to the social and human formation of the mocano of today.

Nashieli Marcano University of Akron www. Sadly, this literary tradition has been explored by Spanish-language authors because the character recurs so often. The perfect marriage between bold language and likable characters, born in the alleyways produced by the war, make this an indispensable novel in the history of our literature.

His partner is a cat named after a writer of crime thrillers. The background is an exciting urban fresco depicting the hidden social reality and corruption of Chile in the last few decades. Alejo Carpentier Through Victor Hughes we follow the impact of the French Revolution in the Antilles, where the inhabitants dreamed of freedom while the guillotine casts its deadly shadow. A novel that can be identified as a true representative of magic realism, and which gives the reader a comprehensive portrait of the atmosphere surrounding the Age of Enlightment.

The characters, bound by family ties, are taken into a whirlpool of emotions and passions, which as a result, constructs their collective reality. During the final withdrawal of the army to the French border, he was taken before a firing squad and seemed certain to die. An extraordinary work about heroism, love, the passage of time and the recovery of the memories of the disappeared. Soldados is the story of the three old men from those old neighborhoods, who at the end of their lives and for different reasons —curiosity, vengeance or desperation— start off together on a search.

The phenomenon of immigration to the United States is analyzed through the character of Freddy and Yolanda. Freddy represents the young Dominican who sees immigration as the solution to all his financial troubles. Yolanda represents the young woman without much motivation who returns to live in Santo Domingo the capital of the Dominican Republic and who faces the problems of adaptation and acclimatization.

Ramiro Pinilla NEW Veteran writer Ramiro Pinilla pays his own particular homage to the detective novels he so enjoyed in his youth, with an adaptation of the universal archetypes and the classic plot of the crime thriller, transposed to post Civil War Spain in a small village of the Basque country. The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. There Daniel Sempere discovers a book which will change the course of his life and will lead him to a labyrinth of intrigue and secrets hidden in the dark soul of the city.

Manuel Vicent This is a beautiful novel written with a magnificent prose yet easy to read. Manuel Vicent won with this book the Alfaguara prize in A beautiful work about the meaning of life, memories, friendship and love.

It shows how he cultivated his skills and inculcated them. Hans and Pedronel, the protagonists, love adventures, and their lives will change forever when they meet Virginia. He encounters people of various social classes and professions being punished for their sins and lampoons them hasrshly with his mordant wit. This work is both the bitterest and most amusing satire of the Golden Age. El Sur; seguido de Bene.

Thus begins this story of devotion and disillusion. Tarrago University of Minnesota Tengo miedo torero. His text captures with much wit that tragic time for his country with the voice of some one who has endured that tragedy for not conforming to the norm. Nashieli Marcano University of Akron Tesis de un homicidio.

He suspects one of his students and becomes obsessed with finding him. Concomitantly, Paul becomes obsessed with an actress, for whom he searches in all women. A cinematographic novel and impossible to put down. Juan Villoro The first classic novel to appear in Mexico after the political changes, The Witness offers the reader a fully realized panorama of a country in which the vestiges and phantoms of the past coexist daily with the wounds of a schizophrenic and convulsive present. Under a climate which has reached a boiling point, Juan Villoro relates in a precise and intelligent style the odyssey of a Mexican professor who returns to his native land after a long absence.

As in the Homeric epic, he discovers that the return to Ithaca is impossible. Mario Vargas Llosa NEW The skillful structure of this novel, written by one of the classic authors of the so-called Latin American boom, moves expertly between literary discourse and that of the radionovela, a popular genre which forms an important part of Latin American culture, and which is here expressed in unexpected literary flights.

Ignacio del Valle NEW Leningrad, is the setting for this historical work where crimes infused with Masonic rituals, intrigues by the military, and the war are the perfect ingredients of a story with the structure and characters of the classic crime thriller. Joanot Martorell The fundamental novel of medieval Catalan literature and the first modern novel in the critical consideration of Mario Vargas Llosa.

This anthology compiles her five published books: Her stories, tinged with an intense and precise prose, seamlessly integrate unexpected and mysterious elements into the account of everyday life. Some of her short stories have been translated into English and published in journals.

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Mario Vargas Llosa A adolescent in Lima falls in love with a girl when she moves in to his privileged neighborhood. The girl disappears when the story she gave of her life proved to be false, but reappears, as a women, in the life of the protagonist when he is a man in Paris. Thus begins this fascinating story of love, dedication, and deracination. Elena Poniatowska Poniatowska should be on an essential list. She is well-known for her journalism and political commentary in Mexico. This is a novel about the railroad movement in Mexico acclaimed at the Guadalajara Book Fair.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante An unclassifiable book, a conjunction of journalistic, literary and cinematographic techniques, it constitutes a unique case in Hispanic literature. An immense play on words elevated to the category of great literature which proved extremely influential in Latin America. A best seller which is, above all, good literature. Originally published in by Seix Barral, Juan sin tierra was revised by Goytisolo in Osvaldo Soriano NEW This first novel by this journalist and writer reveals a perfect combination of the epic and a sense of humor.

The novel is a homage to the classic crime novel the title is a quotation from The Long Goodbye and at the same time an outrageous tragicomedy that combines tears and laughter, actors and characters, reality and fiction. Pessimistic in tone, the novel narrates the story of a murder and an obsession. An object of studies and thesis in numerous universities in America and Europe.

Cristina Peri Rossi A player narrates a life of regrets, as he confronts his obsession with the help of a psychologist. However, this book was published before The Da Vinci Code and perhaps Dan Brown is in the debt of this marvelous author. Alfredo Bryce Echenique NEW The world of Julius, a child of privilege growing up in a bourgoise family in Lima, is portrayed with great humor and tenderness.

As the youngest in the family he is spoiled by both his family and the servants, but as he gets older he comes to see the deep conflict that exists between those two worlds. Manuel Mujica Lainez NEW This novel with a historical-mythological hew, recreates the medieval world as few other novels penned in Spanish have. Eduardo Mendoza NEW We could say that Mendoza starts to configure the genre with this story, written in the code of a crime thriller, about the assassination of the Catalan industrialist Savolta, an arms dealer during World War I.

Francisco de Quevedo This brilliant and cynical novel, supposedly containing many autobiographical episodes, and set in a boarding house in Salamanca peopled by unsavory characters, is one of the wittiest books ever written in Spanish, so packed with conceits and double meanings that it is all but impossible to translate.

Alfredo Bryce Echenique Pinnacle of what some critics have called the new sentimental novel, this work, informed in part by certain topoi of the picaresque novel, presents one of the most likeable and delicious characters in Spanish 20th century literature. After the loss of the empire in , the sad 20th century campaigns in Morocco were an attempt to reorganize the dream in African land. After the army came the colonizers in search of hope.

A considerable number of Spaniards settled in Tetouan, Larache or Tangier, international city occupied by Franco during the World War II, in this way creating a peculiar culture, apparently Spanish but sharing other indigenous and colonial traits. With the independence of Morocco in comes the diaspora, the fracture of the dream to which some cling, like Juanita Narboni. The essential novel about Tangier.

While man is walking on the moon, the adolescent lives in a world anchored in the earth. Magisterially narrated by one of the best contemporary Spanish writers. His forte was the development of character types that represent vices and illustrate moral truths. La verdad sospechosa inveighs against the vice of lying, while combining entertainment with ethical teaching. El vuelo de la reina.

The political events of Argentina are intertwined in this intriguing story also about power and control. I was intrigued and scared by Camargo and his seemingly dual personality. His sexual voyeurism was both fascinating and revolting. This book won the Premio Alfaguara in Fietta Jarque The cultural and religious shock experienced by colonial Peru is manifested in the mestizo art of the Cuzco school and in the lives of four men: Antonio Alatorre How was our language born? How did it expand? How has it diversified? Alatorre answers these and other questions by narrating the history of Spanish language in an approachable style and using simple language.

And as the author says, to share in the magic of its history. This book provides information about the behavior of these wonderful animals and will teach how wolves became endangered and how people are working to save them. This is the first work of highbrow literature dedicated to an American subject, since Ercilla, in contrast to the average Conquistador, was very well-educated. However, in spite of his artistic ambitions, the author was a participant in the conflict, and his chronicle of the conflict remains the most reliable first-hand account of the events. This book serves as an intellectual biography of the author throughout different period of his life in Paris, Oxford, Manila and Spain.

Patricia Figueroa Brown University www. A masterpiece which, unfortunately, has not been sufficiently appreciated, especially in Catalonia. Miguel Barnet A disciple of Fernando Ortiz, Miguel Barnet makes an important contribution to the ethnographic literature of the Caribbean with this work, which has received international acclaim. A work of enormous importance to understand the cultural subtleties of the Hispanic Caribbean. A finely edited compilation of a course given by Borges on English literature, while not focusing on Spanish, does illustrate the way Borges approached the teaching of literature.

An excellent and indispensable synthesis. Juan Goytisolo directed his socially acute eye and heart on a land whose people were prisoners of the scarcity of water and a lack of hope, a region which today has become a natural preserve. Many changes for the good in a relatively short time have altered the essence and the image of a backward and unjust 19th century Spain which was perpetuated thanks to a long-lived dictatorship.

A certain economic prosperity, a democracy not without difficulties and the opening of the country to the world are the keys to this radical change. These objectively positive changes in living standards and social freedoms, however, have produced the appearance of all manner of mountebank nouveau riches. It includes biographical information and indexes by genre, authors and first line. Averroes Born Abu-l-Walis Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rusd in Cordoba in , Averroes is the essential author of Hispano-Arabic philosophy and one of the most important commentators of Aristotle in the history of philosophy.

In this work, Averroes traces the specific axes of his psychology, according to which the soul, as in Aristotle, is the primary faculty and entelechy of the human body. Elsewhere, the philosopher structures a passionate and complex schema of our cognitive activity in the cogitative, estimative, and judicative faculties.

In parallel, Averroes committed himself, in what was a fiery polemic in his time, to affirming the existence of an agent of understanding, a capacity for reasoning common to all men and set apart from any reference to the divine, from which each human being develops his specific intelligence, called speculative understanding. Garcilaso de la Vega, Inca Published in , this remains the exemplary text of New World prose of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

It introduced the South American world to Spanish readers and provided perspectives of both native inhabitants and privileged witnesses in Peru. Hugo Hiriart With a confident and pleasant style, the celebrated Mexican novelist and playwright Hugo Hiriart offers a double introduction to poetry and to the Spanish language, addressed in principle to students of Spanish, but which may be enjoyed by all for its freshness, vigor and easily worn erudition.

The guide uses key examples to examine poetic meter, rime, genres and themes, culminating with several chapters dedicated to awakening a taste for poetic writing in the reader. The book includes a bilingual dictionary interspersed within the text for English-speaking students. With this volume, Hiriart has created an indispensable guide for North American libraries and bookstores. Pablo Neruda This is a remarkable memoir in which Neruda writes about his journeys to exotic places, encounters with famous people and his love of poetry, life, art, nature and obviously his homeland.

The author describes how in distinct and contrasting ways they both came to dominate economic as well as cultural and social life on the island. In light of the Census, where These articles pay special attention to the role of the Afro-Puerto Rican woman in the formation of national and international civil society, intersecting race and gender. Some of the topics covered include: The essays collected in this volume make an essential reference text for readers interested in the vision of contemporary Caribbean women writers.

Ricardo Piglia Collection of essays covering mostly, but not exclusively Argentine writers. Dionisio Ridruejo The politician, intellectual and poet Dionisio Ridruejo was one of the founders of the Spanish Falange, the extreme right revolutionary group which actively participated in the Francoist insurrection. In the recent aftermath of the Civil War, Ridruejo is one of the first voices to register disagreement with the new regime.

Ridruejo resigns all his posts and departs for the Russian front with the Blue Division, the Spanish expeditionary force fighting alongside the Germans. In Cuadernos de Rusia he recounts his departure from Spain, his encounter with the Nazi reality and the discovery of Russia, while little by little his principles take other pathways. Must read for Anglo-Americans to better understand others, specifically, those who have come from Puerto Rico; a part of the US but not. The objective of those articles was to correct usage and abusage of words in journalistic language, a task which at first glance might appear inquisitorial, but which was always effected with rigor, relevance, humor and irony, making those articles a perfect example of the joy of learning.

The work recommended is a selection which has the same generic title as the newspaper articles. A second anthology was subsequently published as The New Dart in the Word. An enriching and enjoyable reading experience. El Caribe, fronter a imperial. Juan Bosch The historical magnum opus of this Dominican intellectual, once president of his country and a politician of great influence among Latin Americans who struggled against the military dictatorships of the 20th century. This work is required reading for anyone wishing to learn the history and idiosyncrasy of the Caribbean as a region.

The title echoes the work of another outstanding Caribbean figure, English in this case: Eric Williams, anti-colonial fighter and promoter of African independence movements. For Unamuno, human life is characterized by its complete irrationality, an irrationality which places it in irrepressible contradiction with the vital desires for knowledge innate in man.

Elsewhere, Unamuno advocates for a complete differentiation between the spheres of reason and sentiment, two facets of the human being which are absolutely irreconcilable. According to Unamuno, life is synonymous with struggle, and more so, the life of an intellectual, a being who finds himself in the center of a struggle between reason and the needs of his appetite and will. Josep Pla In this diary of youth, Catalan journalist Josep Pla displays the pictorial prose which governed his subsequent prolific work, which extends to more than seventy volumes.

Pla would write about the great events of the 20th century with the same aplomb and aversion to overstatement, whether from idealism or grandiloquence, which he evinces at 20 years of age in this work, considered to be his masterpiece. Mario Vargas Llosa Mario Vargas Llosa relates his childhood, adolescent and young adulthood memories, alternating chapter by chapter, with his experiences as a candidate for the presidency of Peru, as well as his justifications for said candidacy. Undergoing consecutive and necessary editions, this anthology has become indispensable and a required recommendation.

A sometimes forgotten genre in Hispanic-American literary histories, but certainly not due to a lack of superior writers and profound works, comparable to the highest essayistic achievements at the international level. Amparo Hurtado Albir A very practical book which presents a course of study for the teaching of translation. Carlos Esteban Deive Slave relations in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo were very different from those which prevailed in great part of the French Caribbean, in the English-speaking Caribbean and in Cuba, until the late abolition of slavery in the largest of the Antilles.

The author analyzes those relations with an economic perspective, and as a serious researcher, committed to the exposition of historical truth. The history of Mexican cooking and a glossary are included for further appreciation of the amazing cuisine. Ian Gibson Certainly the most complete biography of the great Lorca. It is also a biography of Spain at a great time of crisis. Gibson himself revised and translated the English edition published in It narrates the failed expedition of the explorer Hernando de Soto to the vast and unexplored territory known as La Florida.

Paul Preston An extensive and well-documented biography of General Francisco Franco, the dictator who governed Spain between and An excellent work of historical and political research, as well as a sociological and psychological study of the public and private lives of the Caudillo. This book describes the health benefits of a number of foods, explains the food pyramid, and offers complete menus for every season. Consejos y respuestas par a la mujer latina.

This is a primary source filled with valuable historical and linguistic information, since the author is the first Creole Mexican historian who offers us a vision of the Conquest. Even so, his work is an invitation to delve into the wonder of Aztec civilization and the Nahuatl language and etymologies. Claudia Arcila NEW A welcome addition of serious essays to a much needed and almost non-existent sexuality narratives in Spanish.

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Various NEW Historias de Verdad is a wonderfully illustrated collection of books that examines Mexican history from the pre-Hispanic to post-Revolutionary eras. Each book in the eight part series is accessible for young adults who will particularly enjoy margin highlights filled with interesting details and anecdotes written by noted historians. This unique book dazzled American academics, was praised by John Updike and received the Pushcart Prize. A daily account of the life, times and changes of the indigenous. His experience there was recounted in The Long Journey El largo viaje , the best testimony by a Spaniard of the Nazi extermination program.

Each chapter includes comprehension exercises and a bilingual vocabulary. Francisco Alvero Frances Contains a long list of homophones and a presentation of the principal orthographic rules which govern the use of our consonants. Minnet Wilkinson A very skillful comparative analysis of the English and Spanish languages which stresses the syntactical, morphological and punctuation aspects of each language. This book deals with his college years and his mixed feelings on achieving success against all adversity and the price his family had to pay for his success.

An exquisite novelist of the poetic Generation of , she shared her life with the poet Rafael Alberti, to whom she was also united by literature and political struggle. Carlos Barral Carlos Barral was undoubtedly one of the most important Spanish editors of the 20th century, besides being a first-rate reader and critic. A complex and difficult poet, he is however an excellent prose stylist. His memoirs are divided into three volumes: Required reading for librarians and recommended for all library users.

In this work, his expert eye falls on the relationships between mythology and the arts of the indigenous peoples of the archipelago and explains some of those links. It explores various film genres and the characteristics of their respective musical compositions. Naufragios y Comentarios is an eyewitness testimony to one of the great enterprises of the human spirit. Seven high school students, all residing in the city of La Plata, demanded a student fare from the government.

The student fare was a reduced fare instituted to help the students reach their schools, but it had since been eliminated by the military government. Elena Poniatowska This book chronicles the events of the student protests in October of in Mexico City that resulted in the massacre of more than persons. Jorge Ramos A powerful, well-documented analysis of why the growing numbers of Latinos in the United States can no longer be ignored and how they are changing the face of the country. In them can be discerned a whole plan of conduct for life which, four hundred years later, seems surprisingly modern.

The author touches on the entire pantheon of the Cuban divinities-orishas and on her journey leaves us with a fascinating description of the beliefs and aspirations of the faithful. An important work in the field of comparative religion studies. Kiyosaki NEW This is a financial advice book based on two men with successful careers.

Both fathers teach their kids different ways to work, but they both firmly stress education. Belli chronicles very personal accounts of her life as well as her active participation in the Sandinista revolution. Persona non grata is the memoir of the difficult coexistence between Edwards and the Cuban Revolution which would end with his expulsion from the island. This is the first great critique by a Latin American intellectual of the authoritarianism of a regime which was at the time the object of widespread idealization.

This book will provide the student with an overall picture of the most important historical events. The hundreds of detailed drawings by the author illustrate the history of the Inca Empire as well as life during the early colonial period. Written around the manuscript was rediscovered three hundred years later in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen. Alegria, one of the most prominent figures in Caribbean ethnological studies, follows the clues left to us by witnesses of the first contacts between Europeans and Americans in the Antillean islands. A great bibliographical contribution and an opportunity to take the measure of this beloved Puerto Rican intellectual.

Del sujeto en Puerto Rico. This interaction allows society to evolve, if the minorities are virtuous classes who should guide the general will of the masses toward good actions. In The Revolt of the Masses, Ortega y Gasset anticipated something that at the time few had recognized, namely, the characterization of a new paradigm of the mass-man, a depersonalized being who only thinks of the free expansion and fulfillment of his primary needs and desires and who does not express any gratitude for the historic and social conditions which have made possible his well-being as well as the political normalcy of his existence.

A man, who failing to appeal to a higher and virtuous exemplar which he can imitate, becomes easy prey for totalitarian regimes and dictatorships. A paradigm, which, as World War II demonstrated, has survived in our time and perhaps is even more dangerous. This Account… was the first document written in the Americas by a European. Jerome, was asked by Columbus to describe the Taino culture he had found in the island of Hispaniola. This is a document of inestimable value for the study of the Caribbean during the time of the encounter between cultures.

The autobiographical passages that Sister Juana includes make this an enjoyable reading experience, and also contain much information about life in Mexico during the colonial period. They did not find gold, but they were the first Europeans to admire the Grand Canyon. Horacio Veerbitsky NEW This book investigates the arrests of citizens in Argentina in and their subsquent internment in concentration camps on the grounds of a religious institution.

Amparo Hurtado Albir An excellent and all-encompassing compilation of translation theories with special emphasis placed on modern theories. Sonia Nazario The compelling, illuminating account of a young Honduran boy who faces insurmountable odds to reunite with his immigrant mother in the U. Son of the poet Pedro Salinas, Jaime Salinas covers thirty years of his life, and especially the formative years: The cycle closes when he returns to a Spain which feels strange to him and which he does not know.

An interesting portrait of another exile. Eduardo Galeano This is a prominent book indispensable for any Spanish book collection. It presents a historical, political social and economic survey written in an outstanding narrative. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa NEW A student of mathematics, cosmography, classical languages, and history, a man interested in geography and the customs of the places he visited, this brave sailor Sarmiento de Gamboa filled his account of voyages to the Strait of Magellan with acute observations.

Requiered by the Viceroy Toledo to end the depredations of the pirate Drake, the expedition he initiated in as Captain General of the Strait had the double objective of definitively marking the passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic and of leaving in place a series of permanent settlements. Brown This book contains a series of interviews to people from different cultures. It is an important learning source to enhance multicultural awareness in our students.

The river of images shine with a hypnotic force, with the shine of a real jewel, a pleasure for the senses and intellect of the reader. Donna Seaman of the Booklist wrote in her review: Carlos Esteban Deive A classic work about the controversial subject of Dominican popular religion and its relationship to Haitian voodoo. Deive describes the rituals, identifies the similarities and differences between both complex ritual traditions, and explains the impressive cosmology which informs Dominican religious practice.

Altazor is a delectable and ingenious book, full of playful metaphors, almost like a toy train set or a city in miniature. A recent, up-to-date anthology of 20th-century Bolivian poetry. The book covers a total of 49 poets in all. Although there are critics who cast doubt on the reality of literary generations or groupings, the use of such classifications has enjoyed some success in the presentation of the literary history of a language, and more specifically, of a country.

If we refer to the generation of Spanish writers, many of them poets, from the interwar period, the so called Generation of , then undoubtedly that grouping has become an icon, a landmark. Josefina Pla Josefina Pla, Spanish by birth and Paraguayan by choice, left numerous works ranging from poetry and short stories to theater. She is a key figure in understanding 20th-century Paraguayan culture and the way it has developed, especially poetry. Her poems are characterized by their intimate and accessible tone with references to current events, particularly the role and status of women.

Edwin Reyes is one of the most original voices in Puerto Rican poetry. He is extolled for bringing Spanish-language poetry into the modern era, permanently altering its course. He had a great influence on the generation which followed. Antonio Machado The Sevillano poet Antonio Machado is one of the greatest Spanish poets of all time, while at the same time being the most popular poet in the peninsula.

His verse, simple in appearance, comprehensible and familiar, has the power to reach the reader in a sincere and emotional way. A life marked by personal the death of his wife and social misfortunes the Civil War , surfaces in his verse, endowing them with honesty and experience. The Landscape of Castile, his third published work, owes its title to the period when he lived in Soria, where he was a professor. His determined conduct during the Civil War led to his death in prison in During the time he was imprisoned, he wrote this beautiful and tragic collection of poems, full of authentic and profound imagery.

Anonymous The great medieval Spanish epic, composed by an unknown Castilian juglar minstrel in about , but which is preserved in a single copy of transcribed by one Per Abbat, of whom nothing is known. The plot of the Poem of the Cid is divided into three parts: Alfonso X el Sabio This collection of songs, set to music and gloryfing the miracles performed by the Virgin Mary, was composed by a 13th century king, known as the Wise or the Sage, who was the greatest of all medieval patrons of letters, an encyclopedic scholar and a poet in his own right.

Of great power and musicality, the songs were written in Galician, the literary language of the age. Alfonso the Wise also exercised great influence on the development of Castilian prose with works on the law, history and astronomy. This offering by the Chilean Nobel Prize winner is required reading and included in the canon of Western civilization.

The subtitle of the play is Drama of women in the villages of Spain. It focuses on the life of an Andalusian family in which the protagonist exercises a cruel tyranny over her five daughters. This drama explores the themes of repression, passion and nonconformity in a rural feminine world. It is worth noting the apparent simplicity of the work counterpoised against its enormous thematic complexity. In her greatest mystical work, she narrates the ascent of her soul through the seven chambers of the mystic castle to complete union with God.

Her basic message is the extinction of self and submergence into the Divine Essence. Yet her style is conversational and full of native humor and pungency. Her many achievements are related in her Libro de las fundaciones and her inner life is revealed in her introspective autobiography, Libro de su vida.

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He dips into nostalgia from his childhood to craft these poems set in Los Angeles, California. Pablo Neruda This work is very popular as well as being beautiful. New York Notebook, comprised of 32 poems and heralded by the critics as a major work of contemporary poetry, is one of his most emblematic books and perfectly summarizes the themes which have always interested him. His poetry expresses a deep concern for social and human issues, the passage of time, and memory.

The anthologists, active poets with important works of their own and experienced editors, have taken on the arduous task of offering an overview of Hispanic-American poetry produced by authors born between and Likewise, the anthology represents a very important attempt to create links and establish a dialogue among the poets of the Hispanic-American world. His poems are deeply connected with the classical tradition and rooted in topics such as love and beauty, shedding new light on those topics from a contemporary gaze. In short, this is a beautiful and happy elegy, the retelling and celebration of an existence —with errors no doubt— lived to the fullest.

Umberto Eco NEW Reflections about the basis of ethics and other values questioned by contemporary man. Fuenteovejuna is a historical comedy, based on an actual happening, set against a background of historical fact, and peopled with peasants, royalty and a villanous nobleman.

It is startling today for its use of a collective protagonist, the town of Fuenteovejuna, and its overt populism. Juan Carlos Quintero This rich and hermetic book of poems contains a collection of verses that brings together multiple tones and cultural traditions, in a very Caribbean style.

Fernando de Rojas This dramatized novel is considered by critics second only to Don Quixote in intrinsic greatness and literary influence. It ends tragically with the death of both lovers. The greatness of the novel lies in its realistic delineation of character. The crone, Celestina, a panderess of titanic cunning, is depicted as evil incarnate. Other characters such as the picaresque servants, the prostitutes, the braggart soldiers etc.

Even Calisto, with his flowery diction and his abject adoration, is a faithful portrayal of the Petrarcan lover of the day. Why a 17th century text? Because life is a dream and dreams are dreams as well. Juana de Ibarbourou An exponent of the best female Latin American poetry of all time, this extraordinary poet offers a sample of her best poetry in this volume. Mequinsa un continente dominado por los dioses Spanish Edition Oct 29, FREE Shipping on eligible orders. Spanish Edition Oct 29, Available to ship in days. Alonso, explorador de libros: Read this and over 1 million books with Kindle Unlimited.

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