La Saga de los Santos 1750-2000

Libro de reclamaciones es un registro de tormentas, el testimonio de alguien que ha logrado dominar una pertinaz e inflexible voluntad de autodestrucción. El recuerdo de un personaje heterodoxo empeñado en pasear por la cuerda floja, subordinado al caos de quien pretende burlar el orden lógico. Un alegato ético en contra de la ruindad, el egoísmo, la hipocresía y la brutalidad, escrito desde el rigor y la impiedad con su familia, sus colegas y consigo mismo. Dibujadas en concisas y rápidas pinceladas, el autor relata historias muy diversas sutilmente engarzadas al discurso de su...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Octavio Paz en su siglo es a la vez biografía y crítica literaria, la obra de madurez de uno de los más conocidos ensayistas hispanoamericanos de nuestro tiempo. Entre la moral de las convicciones y la moral de la responsabilidad, intelectual liberal que no renuncia a sus visiones libertarias y socialistas, Octavio Paz (1914-1998) fue una figura esencial en la transición democrática de México, siempre en controversia con nuestros «dictadores constitucionales» como con la izquierda latinoamericana, voz insustituible entre el movimiento estudiantil de 1968 y la revuelta neozapatista de...

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...