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In this book of essays that at times points out essential details, and at times details them, runs over them, and returns to give us a full view of of two great literary constructions, Ignacio Padilla invites us to reevaluate the chief contributions of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Addressing five rare angles, one of the best Mexican writers of the “Crack” generation studies with passion, knowledge, and an enormous... - Read more

There is not doubt Miguel de Cervantes believed in the devil. But which one? Did he believe, along with Erasmus, that the devil was all that which drives us away from good? Was he totally convinced that Satan was only an instrument of inquisitorial rhetoric? Plurality and invisibility have always been satanic attributes, and Don Quixote’s century was no exception. For years, a number of thinkers searched in vain for a line which would... - Read more

A powerful story of love and loss. The portrait of a man who carries disappointment deep inside him as if it were an illness. An assassin motivated by the most absolute act of love and misery; the murder of his wife. The attractive English professor Elías Vaiser, with a degree in English studies from Trinity College of Dublin, leaves prison and moves to Galicia, Spain. He was able to find work as an English Professor in an institute for... - Read more

Since the publication in 1996 of “The Art of the Fugue”, Sergio Pitol’s collection of essays have become a gallery of images that, in the manner of the great Gothic stainglass windows, reveal in the sum of its fragments the story of a vocation, the patient accumulation of frontiers that ensure a distinctive style. Inventory of intuitions and reminiscences, of obsessions and phobias, this book is proof of a life strewn and... - Read more