Carlos: 2314 books

Kora in Hell: Improvisations, William Carlos Williams said, "is a unique book, not like any other I have written. It is the book I have enjoyed referring to more than any of the others. It reveals myself to me and perhaps that is why I have kept it to myself...I am indebted to Ezra Pound for...

One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day. Combining historical perspective with personal and often opinionated interpretation, Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado...

En este libro se reúnen tres ensayos académicos publicados por primera vez en la Revista Cuartillas, Medellín - Colombia. El primero, El Moderno Concepto de Comunicación, publicado en la revista número 7, de 1990. El segundo, Prensa y Presuposición, publicado en la revista número 9, de 1991. Y el tercero, Buscando Tierra Libre, publicado en la revista número 6, de 1990.

Reviving Nietzsches use of the ancient gods Apollo and Dionysus as notions for seeing the emergence, growth, and imminent and final decay of Western culture, Carlos Wiggen goes through the historical process by way of selected interpretations of this cultures drama, thought, and social structure. Is the spine of a radically new culture already forming? If so, what is its essence?

"Lo que hace vigente hoy el pensamiento de R.W. Emerson es su visión de la naturaleza, ese grandioso escenario que nos empeñamos en destruir con ahínco pero que nos sigue aportando razones, verdades e imágenes para reconstruir un nuevo orden de la existencia. Emerson es tan actual porque encarna...

Un libro que nace con la vocación de vacunar al lector contra la industria de la felicidad y sus desmesuradas exigencias. ** **“Tienes que ser feliz”. “La felicidad es el objetivo”. “Atrévete a ser feliz”. Son incontables las ocasiones en las que escuchamos frases como estas. ...

A dream play about two Mexican women exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors. Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play relentlessly stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies. Taken from the collection, Latin American Plays, an essential...

Ningún otro libro de don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora ha tenido la fortuna y repercusión que la relación conocida indebidamente como Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez. La amenidad de su lectura, los indudables artificios literarios que presenta y la práctica inexistencia de novelas en la América...

This eBook edition of Carlos Fuentes' novel includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp. The Spanish text is not included. Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His...

In the five novellas that comprise The Orange Tree, Carlos Fuentes continues the passionate and imaginative reconstruction of past and present history that has distinguished Terra Nostra and The Campaign. From the story of Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean, to the fate of Hernan Cortes's two sons,...

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political...

During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his...

On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He reveals himself as the 19th-century philosopher...

On New Year's Eve in 1969, a novelist in his forties meets the beautiful movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her oddly elusive charm. But in this novel from Carlos Fuentes, his infatuation turns into doomed pursuit as the fleeting object of his desire spurns him, and he is forced to reconsider the foundations of his life as a writer.