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The Martin Fierro, the classic argentine poem, has been the subject of studies and discussions ever since the issuing of its first part edition -el gaucho Martin Fierro- in 1873, and there have been many ensuing editions, including some still available, to prove it. This new edition of both parts aims to render a balanced startpoint to the study of the literary piece. This edition is based on the original texts: El gaucho Martín Fierro Impre...

Martin Fierro, the argentine poem, has been subject to numerous ideology biased interpretations. This appropriation, sometimes outrageous, has spurred the discussion whether Martin Fierro or Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo should be considered in orderto bring the Argentine society into a just, peaceful civil terrain. To read Quiroga Lavié's biography of José Hernández means delving into the mind of an earnest, law abiding scholar, that neverth...

In Spanish, annotated edition. Witness to the devastating effect of the religious problem in Spain -more acute during the first years of the the Bourbon Restoration (1875)- and the terrible clash between the Europeanized, liberal, egalitarian spirit and the traditionalist, provincial spirit, that opposed with ferocious fanaticism any new ideas that might challenge their cherished beliefs, Benito Perez Galdos believed that religiousness exceed...

Far from being, in the author's humble misleading words, one of those "tales attributed to the fantasy of old women", and very close to becoming "almost a book on moral philosophy.almost a book on politics and mundaneness due to its observations" "The Pilgimage." is a masterpiece of political thought and observations upon its practice in the real Latin American world. Dated at London in 1871, "The Pilgrimage of Daylight, or Travels and Advent...

In spite of the precedent of Bartolomé Hidalgo's "Cielitos y Diálogos patrióticos" -that defined the " cielito" as the tone of voice for the "gauchesca" genre- it is Hilario Ascasubi who should be considered the first of the "gauchi-poetas", as his works opened the roads to Estanislao del Campo's "Fausto" (1866) and José Hernández's "Martin Fierro" (1873). Santos Vega o los mellizos de la Flor was started in 1850, and published for the first t...

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Salta, Potosí, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to José Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulat...

To read Iman (1930) by Ramon J. Sender is to sail into a vertiginous trip within the darkest aspects of the human being. A man, a soldier striving to survive along endless days and nights in a desert landscape, without further protection besides his scarce strengths, surrounded by death, violence, horror. A shockingly compelling novel, both harsh and beautiful, written in a prose that attains lyricism heights seldom seen in war novels, that ha...

Both Pityusa (1907) and its author Jose María Llanas Aguilaniedo (1875-1921), are two key elements in the study the Spanish fin de siecle culture and decadentism. The novel orbits around the love triangle of the prostitute Pityusa, the weak aristocratic Nikko, and his uncle Tinny, a man of action past his prime. The three will live their relation in the Balearic island of Menorca, turned into an oppressive environment that stifles its inhabi...

Who wishes within the vast field of culture to enter the life experiences, habits and customs of the argentine people, will find in "Cuentos del hormiguero":, these fifty eight short stories by Tibor Chaminaud, writer, poet and plastic artist, a faithful rendering of reality. His characters, guided by Ricardo, the main character of all the stories, dream, love, and live within the complex plot of the "Gran Hormiguero" (great ant-hill) that h...

The Short Stories of La Habana Elegante appeared for the first time in the homonymous magazine in 1887, intended, according to its editors, to stimulate our literates, opening for them the opportunity to exhibit their wit in these entertaining literature pieces. As a matter of fact they did more than that. Never before a short stories book had been published in Cuba. Thus, those published by La Habana Elegante have the most rare condition of b...

Jose Maria Llanas Aguilaniedo (1875-1921) is one of the most relevant and less know characters of the Spanish turn of the XIXth Century culture. His heterogeneous and particular works encompass aesthetics treatises, scientific papers, publications on criminology and hygiene, and three novels that bear witness to the new directions assumed by the narrative and the cultural obsessions of the period. Navegar pintoresco (1903), his second novel,...

First published in 1884 "La gran aldea" is the author's attept at exposing and synthesizing the transformation process undertaken by Buenos Aires and its inhabitants during the thirty years that followed Rosas' overthrow. The novel was feverishly written as a serialized column, and from the same desk where he prepared his political articles, a situation that explains some style faults typical of haste writing. Lucio Vicente López, grandson o...

In Spanish, annotated edition The interesting story of Pedro Chamijo, the "false Inca" takes in Roberto Payro's writing an amusing tone that cannot hide the tragedy that the Spanish conquistadores ignorance and brutality represented for the native South American tribes. The scenario is the Obispado of Córdoba del Tucumán, sitting in Santiago del Estero city, with jurisdiction over the Tarija zone and the actual argentine provinces of Córdoba, ...

Juana Borrero (1877 - 1896) - Modernist poet, born in Puentes Grandes, Havana, Cuba. She also excelled in painting. As a poet, she was considered a precocious girl. Her father, Esteban Borrero, was a short stories writer of and a poet, and her sister, Dulce Maria Borrero, excelled at poetry and prose. Therefore, Juana grew up in an artistic and literary atmosphere, amid literary circles and gatherings attended by other writers like Carlos Pío ...

Sacrificio y recompensa is the first Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera work ever published. Entered in the literary contest organized by the Ateneo de Lima in 1886, it earned its author the gold medal. The publication in 1887 meant for Mercedes Cabello her recognition by the Lima society as a writer, and the preliminary hints of a style and attitude vis-a-vis the society that would become exacerbated in her other writings, Los amores de Hortensia...

The plot of La piedra angular (1891) revolves around a crime: the brutal murder of a man by his wife and her lover. The novel is didactic, and attacks capital punishment, the "corner stone" of the title. On the issue of capital punishment, the author presents the reader with a variety of attitudes and ideologies. Emilia Pardo Bazán studies the executioner (Juan Rojo) and his family environment. In this way, La piedra angular analyzes the penal...

Though Juan Manuel de Rozas has been the topic of several studies and discussions -many still going on in Argentina- this Ensayo Histórico-Psicológico is particularly enlightening beyond the character, as it also sheds light upon the reasons why of the influence Rozas holds upon an important portion of the Argentine ruling class, and as such upon it's history, even recent. Lucio Victorio Mansilla was Roza's nephew, but he also was an illustr...

La tierra natal is a journey into the past, and also a farewell. Since 1831, when forced to follow her father into exile in Bolivia, Juana Manuela Gorriti had not returned to Salta, though there are some opinions about the stealth trip disguised in man's clothes, depicted in her short story "Gubi Amaya", being somewhat autobiographic. A trip from Buenos Aires up to the country's North in 1878 becomes frustrated at Tucuman. And it is just in 18...

Orthographic signs (diacritic marks, punctuation marks, and signs and symbols that are part of the Spanish writing system) are the essential pillars of any communicative structure, as they allow it to stand out, and show its solidness and elegance or, if misused, it displays fissures that fail to convey the appropriate content or meaning of the message. In the pages of this book you will find the proper use of the technique of these signs. Eac...

First published in 1903 A fuego lento has all the elements to be considered a veritable roman à clef: its first part takes place in some caribbean place that under the despective name of Ganga hardly conceals it's real identity as the colombian city of Barranquilla, where Emilio Bobadilla lived during some months in 1898 and from where he was ousted, embittered and angry with the local literary circles. His later expulsion from the country by ...