Product Description: “A lucid and accessible guide through the complex and often intimidating web of literary, historical, and cultural references in one of the great literary works of the twentieth century.”—Víctor Figueroa, author of Not at Home in One’s Home   “McGarrity’s user-friendly apparatus helps the reader navigate the allusive cross-currents of the cultural and mythological resources on which Walcott draws in creating his New World Mediterranean epic...read more

Product Description: Peer to Gabriel García Marquez and Octavio Paz, Álvaro Mutis is indisputably one of the greatest Latin American authors of the 20th century and this collection brings together the best of Mutis' largely-unknown body of poetry.Álvaro Mutis is celebrated internationally as the author of the seven novellas, written between 1986 and 1993, that constitute the legendary and widely loved Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll...read more

Product Description: Fiction. African & African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by María Rodríguez-Alcalá, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, and Alexander Cordones Cook. Compiled by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook and edited by Sara E...read more

Product Description: "AMAR SE APRENDE AMANDO" Na tristeza profunda De cada despedida, Só mesmo outro amor Para curar essa ferida. Amar se aprende amando, Superando retrocessos: Nos braços de um novo amor, Dá-se o reverso. Na dureza diuturna, De uma história interrompida, Só mesmo um novo amor Para poder conseguir suportar a vida...read more

Product Description: "Guayasamín is one of the last crusaders of imaginismo. He is a creator of humanity in its broadest sense, of the living and historical imagination. His universe is sustaining although it threatens us like a cosmic disaster. Think before approaching his painting because it will not be easy to withdraw...read more

Product Description: Americanas By Joaquim Machado de Assis

Product Description: Este libro reúne los mejores poemas de amor escritos por Mario Benedetti, uno de los poetas más innovadores, divertidos, ambiciosos y modernos de la literatura en español. El amor, las mujeres y la vida recoge una selección de poemas aclamados por varias generaciones, aquellos en los que Benedetti vuelca su concepción de la vida: el amor como compensación de la muerte se levanta en sus versos lleno de fe, como fuerza principal que mueve al ser humano, como una proclama de la existencia, que va de la erótica del amante hasta la esperanza del revolucionario o la gratitud del amigo...read more

Product Description: A finales de 1404 Herman, Paul, y Johan empezaron a trabajar con Juan I de Berry. Quien era coleccionaba obras de arte y libros. El primer encargo fue iluminar el Libro de Horas, hoy conocido como Belles Heures du Duc de Berry. La obra había sido iniciada por Jean Noir, discípulo de Pucelle, entre 1372 y 1375;continuada por Jacquemart de Hesdin y terminada por los hermanos Limbourg...read more