Juan: 2368 books

Por iniciativa del antropólogo Néstor Carcía Canclini y del escritor Juan Villoro, un grupo interdisciplinario explora la nueva circulación de significados artísticos y la conformación de públicos en la América Latina de hoy. El análisis colectivo aborda, entre otros temas, la piratería...

Los autores de la mejor literatura del siglo XX desfilan por las páginas de este libro. Premios Nobel, escritores controvertidos, amados, heterodoxos, muchas de las grandes voces que han conformado la memoria literaria de nuestro tiempo se muestran en las entrevistas que Juan Cruz ha realizado a...

The Black Diamond is the sixth book in the saga. This time Juan is born in Lesotho, South Africa. As his immortal spirit continues to live on, he is able to vividly recall his eternal past and cannot understand why whites despise men of his race. His father Moshoeshoei, king of the Basotho, instructs...

This biting commentary on the follies of mankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leaves readers laughing—at themselves as well as at others. With his surgical intelligence, Juan José Arreola exposes the shams and hypocrisies, the false values and vices, the hidden diseases of society....

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, segundo tomo. Este volumen contiene los capítulos I al VIII de la primera parte y un prólogo de Juan Gil-Albert.

«Una splendida ricostruzione di un'epoca oscura segnata da cruente lotte per il potere.» Ildefonso Falcones «Un romanzo storico sorprendente ambientato nella Barcellona del IX secolo. Lotte di potere, conflitti religiosi, amori, tradimenti e vendette. La terra maledetta è un affascinante...

Murder, love, betrayal, and some of the world’s most beautiful objets d’art come together in Juan Manuel de Prada's tempestuous, prize-winning novel set in Europe’s quintessentially enigmatic city: Venice. Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in wintry Venice to study...

Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it. Genre:...

In The Portable Museum, readers will discover extraordinary and unexpected short stories by some of the best authors from Spain and Latin America: Hebe Uhart brings her astute observational skills and dry humor to bear on the world of academia in provincial Argentina in "The Event Planner."...

Young José Martins, let out of class early one day, heads home with his uncle and his older sister. On the way, he and his sister try to guess the reason--a party? a birthday? an election victory?--for their unexpected dismissal from class. Genre: short story Length: 3,000 words Translated...

**From the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a "brilliant new novel" (New York Times Book Review) and one of the most buzzed about books of the year! "One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize...

Una antología de mirorrelatos únicos y muy diversos Cuentos del Jíbaro es una compilación de microrrelatos que Demipage difundió semanalmente a través de correo electrónico durante un año, creando así una comunidad amazónica de lectores invisibles que cada jueves seguía las fabulaciones...

El FCE publicó en 1985 esta antología de la obra de Juan José Arreola, preparada por él mismo, en la colección Biblioteca Joven. En su "Presentación..." escribió: "Ahora surge de pronto la oportunidad de este libro. Y la aprovecho inmediatamente para ofrecer a sus lectores lo...

Juan Valera publica “Genio y figura” en 1897, novela cuya aparición suscitó un escándalo literario, acompañado de un éxito editorial. Valera traslada su habitual escenario andaluz a ambientes cosmopolitas bien conocidos por él en su andadura diplomática. En la línea de la novela erótica...