Fe de Rata

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

Un provocador ensayo sobre la ayuda humanitaria y sus contradicciones, a través de apasionantes experiencias personales. ¿Salvar a los demás para salvarse a uno mismo? Apodado el Pasafronteras a raíz de su entrada ilegal en Zaire, Jordi Raich pasó tres semanas encarcelado en Uganda acusado de espiar para la CIA, estuvo perdido en el desierto somalí con el ejército italiano a la espera de un general que nunca llegó, fue atacado por los heridos que salvó del bombardeado hospital de Vukovar, repartió comida bajo el fuego de morteros rebeldes durante el asedio a Monrovia e hizo jogging...

A partir de una exhaustiva investigación, la autora ofrece un análisis evolutivo sobre la producción bliográfica en torno a la Revolución Francesa en España a lo largo de tres períodos 17891799, 18081814 y 18231833.