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With this edition El inefable Philip by Aurora Bertrana is published for the first time. In the novel Bertrana tells the story of Anna, a bourgeois woman obsessed with Philip, an extraordinary handsome man who was the son of a thread manufacturer from England. For Anna Philip's beauty is such that she sees him as if he was a deity. Anna manages to marry him despite Philip's warning that he will never be able to make any woman happy. Anna disre...

Manuel Maples Arce's 1920s avant-garde period is currently quite popular in Mexico, but his later poetry is largely unknown these days. Texts of his poetry were hard to find before the 1981 edition and 2013 reprint of his complete poetry, Las semillas del tiempo. A few of his volumes have been translated into French: Poèmes Interdits by Edmond Vandercammen, and the three 1920s estridentista volumes as Stridentisme by Antoine Chareyre, one int...

Manuel Maples Arce was a driving force in the modernization of Mexican poetry in the 1920s. His Estridentismo was an energetic avant-garde movement that brought the Mexican Revolution to the arts, and the Mexican literary community into the 20th century. Maples' poetry, spanning more than six decades, is of a value that should create for him a respected place among the prominent Latin American poets of the 20th century. In this study, histor...

El diablo de Yudis (The devil of Yudis) emerges from the phenomenon of Moroccan immigration to Europe, giving the emigrant a voice.Daoudi reveals a magnificent literary style, powerfully expressive, and the narration flows naturally between bitter and hopeful tones. His language, agile and direct, reveals a literary quality deserving attention.This first work by Daoudi offers great sociological richness in terms of the harsh situation it poses...

Bohemian lights, a classic work of Spanish and world theater, marks the great leap by Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) towards a new aesthetic and ethical political-social commitment, while maintaining the artistic brilliance of his previous work. Its fusion of artistic and political avant-garde gives rise to a new tragic-comic dramatic modality that it baptizes "esperpento", where the tragic sense of Spanish life is exhibited through a syst...

The epic Song of The Cid, one of the highlights of world literature, is updated here in an authoritative modern Spanish version by Alberto Montaner and Ángel Escobar. The Carmen Campidoctoris, penned by a monk in Catalonia, was written while the Cid was still alive. The Romances of the Cid are folk ballads that, like today's Star Wars spinoffs, fill in the gaps with prequels and sequels, adding drama (and yes, romance) to El Cid's amazing stor...

The epic Song of The Cid appears here in an authoritative edition by the renowned Cidian scholar Alberto Montaner. The Carmen Campidoctoris, probably written while the Cid was still alive, appears in both Latin and Spanish original languages. The Romances viejos of the Cid provide yet another dimension to the Cid's heroic myth-and the times in which it was created. Created by renowned Spanish scholars and an award-winning American poet, these...

The epic Song of The Cid, one of the highlights of world literature, gallops across the fields of Spain in the most brilliant English translation yet. The Carmen Campidoctoris, penned by a monk in Catalonia, was written while the Cid was still alive. The Romances of the Cid are folk ballads that, like today's Star Wars spinoffs, fill in the gaps with prequels and sequels, adding drama (and yes, romance) to El Cid's amazing story.This three-dim...

Gypsy Romances & Poem of the Deep Song will be the first book in English devoted entirely to Lorca's two collections of Gypsy-inspired verse. Gypsy Romances (Romancero Gitano) is, of course, by far the world's best-known book of Spanish poetry. Less known but equally entrancing is Lorca's tribute to Flamenco: Poem of the Deep Song (Poema del Cante Jondo). This celebration of Spain's quintessential music is as fragrant as Manuel de Falla's Nigh...

The 1934 miners' strike in Asturias (Spain), also known as the October Revolution, can be interpreted as a general rehearsal for the Spanish Civil War. The progressive radicalization of the unions and the hesitance of the Spanish Socialist Party to embrace their demands displayed the numerous fractures dividing the Spanish left. The Spanish II Republic was increasingly at risk of losing the support of the working class. Simultaneously, the mil...

Maestra voluntaria (Volunteer Teacher) imagines an answer to a critical question during the momentous first years after General Fulgencio Batista's removal from office in 1959: If the revolution is socialist, what does that mean to me?Author Daura Olema produced this novel based on her journal written during teacher training for the 1961 Literacy Campaign. Casa de las Américas awarded its prize for best novel in 1962, and it was used as the ba...

Throughout this recent treatise, published in Madrid, Spain in 2015 (Siruela), the great Spanish writer Clara Janés (poet, essayist, novelist) and esteemed member of the elite Spanish Royal Academy (2015), accompanies us on a journey throughout different cultures and moments of time, from early years up to the present period, focusing on relatively unknown but significant writings by women. In a series of essays published here, she highlights ...

As Europe was falling into the grip of Hitler and Mussolini in the early 1930s, Spain was ousting its monarchs and dictators and moving towards a period of democracy. This brief moment of progressive political and social change was Spain's Second Republic (1931-1936). During the Spanish Second Republic, a series of affordable and accessible works of fiction-proletariat novels-was published to introduce radical political ideas to the working cl...

In «Viento de grop» (Grop Wind) Catalan author Aurora Bertrana portraits the characters who inhabit a fishing village on the Catalan coast called La Cala. The plot revolves around the sentimental story of Rafel, a young local fisherman, and Mabel, a British tourist who spends her summer holidays in La Cala. Both live an unrestrained romance until Mabel returns to England and forgets her young lover. The sentimental failure leaves Rafel shatter...

In this historical novel Teresa González de Fanning (1836-1913), Peruvian educator and novelist, portrays the chaos that characterized Peru in the years immediately after Independence. The plot revolves around two haciendas, one owned by Roque Moreno, descendant from a family of freedmen, owner of an estate formerly belonging to the Jesuits, the other by Don Justo de la Vega Hermosa, a Spaniard based in Peru. Besides its interest in the cultur...

On October 10, 1868, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (1819-1874), a Cuban landowner, emancipated his slaves and rose against the Spanish regime, thus starting the Cuban war of independence, which lasted ten years and caused havoc among the island's population. This edition gathers the testimonies of two North American women who lived on the island during the first years of the war: Eliza Waring de Luaces and Josephine T. del Risco. Both women were f...

I have tried to preserve these walls photographically, defying the finiteness of works registered once, but most of them no longer existing today due to the natural deterioration of time, or vandalism or, as the ancient painters did with their canvases, overlapped by the work of some other artist.

«The Jews of Las Acacias» establishes Rebeca Mactas as a founding author of Jewish-Argentine literature, with a particular focus on documenting the role of women in the agricultural colonization promoted by the Jewish Colonization Association created by businessman, banker and philanthropist Mauricio de Hirsch, among whose initial pioneers was Mordejai Alpersohn, the grandfather of Mactas.A remarkable element of Mactas's stories is the feminin...

This new book is a compilation of articles and lectures by the liberal thinker Armando P. Ribas, which reflect the political philosophy that overlies its historical, ethical, political and economic analysis. Dr. Ribas exposes the political and economic issues in the correct axiological order, thus demonstrating that the economy is not an independent science, but merely consequential and dependent on ethics, politics, and the legal system deriv...

The City of the Young: fantasy press reportis about a journalist of the fictitious newspaper «Ara o Mai» (Now or Never) who travels from his city «The City of the Old» to «The City of the Young» to write about the way of life of their new generations.Within the novel the narrator-reporter interviews several government delegates (of Public Order, Eclesiastical, Fine Arts, Sexual Hygiene, etc, ), equivalent to the Ministries at «The City of the ...