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Fondo de Cultura Económica is the most important publishing house in Mexico and one of the most important ones in Latin America. It was originally established in as a way to provide students of economics with books in Spanish on the subject. Little by little fce expanded its publishing areas to other subjects that today encompass almost everything, from children’s literature to scientific texts. Fondo de Cultura Económica is a decentralized publishing institution funded by the Mexican government. As part of our recent improvement, we now have our editorial and commercial processes certified with the iso : quality management standards. fce’s backlist encompasses more than volumes, from which (aprox.) are still being published or reprinted, with more than new titles being added each year. This great cultural wealth is grouped in many subjects, such as Literature, Philosophy, Social Sciences, History, Children’s Books, Art, Economics, etc. In addition to its central office in Mexico, fce has foreign branches in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, Spain, usa and Venezuela.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chumacero, Alí. Palabras en reposo,
Art Arcos, María de. Experimentalismo en la música cinematográfica,
Domínguez Michael, Christopher. Diccionario crítico de la literatura mexicana (-),
Carrera, Pilar. Andrei Tarkovski: la imagen total,
Leñero, Vicente. Teatro completo, i,
Flores, Helio. El hombre de negro,
Liera, Óscar. Teatro escogido,
Musacchio, Humberto. El Taller de Gráfica Popular,
Malpartida, Juan. A favor del tiempo. [Antología],
Palenzuela, Nilo. Moradas del intérprete,
Menton, Seymour. La novela colombiana, Millington, Mark. Hombres in/visibles,
Education
Montiel Figueiras, Mauricio. Terra cognita,
Ferreiro, Emilia. Pasado y presente de los verbos leer y escribir,
Ochoa, Enriqueta. Poesía reunida,
Ferreiro, Emilia and Ana Siro. Narrar por escrito desde un personaje, Kolesas, Mabel. Del jardín a la terciaria,
Olmos, Carlos. Teatro completo, Padeletti, Hugo. El andariego, Papasquiaro, Mario Santiago. Jeta de santo, Poniatowska, Elena. Jardín de Francia,
History Botero, Clara Isabel et al. Museo del Oro,
Río Parra, Elena del. Cartografías de la conciencia española en la Edad de Oro,
Caimari, Lila (ed.) La ley de los profanos,
Roca, Juan Manuel. Cantar de lejanía,
Chacón, Susana. La relación entre México y Estados Unidos (-),
Sandoval, Víctor. Poesía reunida, Soltero, Gonzalo. Sus ojos son fuego,
Fowler, Will (ed.) Gobernantes mexicanos, vol. i,
Villena, Luis Antonio de. Honor de los vencidos,
Fowler, Will (ed.)Gobernantes mexicanos, vol. ii,
Zepeda, Eraclio. Tocar el fuego,
Garrido Palacios, Manuel. Alosno, palabra cantada, Stresser-Péan, Guy. Viaje a la Huasteca con Guy StresserPéan,
Philosophy Cohen Agrest, Diana. Por mano propia,
Villadelángel, Gerardo (ed.) El libro rojo, vol. i,
Gaos, José. Filosofía de la filosofía, Muguerza, Javier. Desde la perplejidad,
Literature Bonnett, Piedad. Los privilegios del olvido,
Navarro Reyes, Jesús. Pensar sin certezas,
Boone, Luis Jorge. La noche caníbal,
Salles, Arleen and Florencia Luna. Bioética: nuevas reflexiones sobre debates clásicos,
Bradu, Fabienne. Artaud, todavía,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Isol. Vida de perros,
Politics Dobado, Rafael et al. España y México,
Sáez Castán, Javier. Libro Caracol,
Laclau, Ernesto. Debates y combates,
Pellicer, Carlos. Colores con brisa,
Serrano Migallón, Fernando. La vida constitucional de México, vols. i and ii,
Poniatowska, Elena. Boda en Chimalistac, Buitrago, Jairo. Camino a casa, García Esperón, María. Tigres de la otra noche,
Science
Hinojosa, Francisco. La peor señora del mundo,
García Viveros, Mariano and Karina Salas Mercado (eds.) Hacia un milenio sin hambre con educación, salud y justicia,
Toledo, Natalia. La Muerte pies ligeros, Toledo, Natalia. Cuento del Conejo y el Coyote,
Jaramillo, Juan Francisco. 101 hierbas medicinales,
Murugarren, Miguel. Animalario universal del profesor Revillod,
Sociology
Zepeda, Monique. Kassunguilà,
Arfuch, Leonor. Crítica cultural entre política y poética, Casullo, Nicolás. Las cuestiones,
Amara, Luigi. Las aventuras de Max y su ojo submarino,
Feierstein, Daniel. El genocidio como práctica social,
Baranda, María. Hago de voz un cuerpo,
Gambetta, Diego (ed.) El sentido de las misiones suicidas,
Martínez, Rocío. De cómo nació la memoria de El Bosque,
Hayner, Priscilla. Verdades innombrables,
Ventura, Antonio. El cuento del pingüino,
Sibilia, Paula. La intimidad como espectáculo,
Villoro, Juan. El libro salvaje, Hiriart, Hugo El nombre del juego es Posada,
Children’s Books Isol. Tener un patito es útil,
Chávez Castañeda, Ricardo. Fernanda y los mundos secretos,
Beyer Ruiz, María Emilia. ¿Por qué se esconden?,
Colomer, Teresa. Andar entre libros,
Duhne, Martha. ¿Quién pasó por aquí?, Sánchez Mora, María del Carmen. ¿Para qué usas la lengua?, Carrasco, Aitana. Ramona la mona, Isol. El globo, Isol. Secreto de familia, Design: Laura Esponda Translation: Margaret Schroeder and Tanya Huntington w w w. fo n do decu l tu raeco n o mi c a. com
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Experimentalismo en la música cinematográfica
Andrei Tarkovski: la imagen total
[Andrei Tarkovsky: The Total Image]
[Experimentalism in Film Music]
Pilar Carrera
María de Arcos st ed., Fce Spain, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Tezontle. Subject: Music ISBN 8437505992
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hy has film music, ever since its beginnings, clung to a romantic, extremely traditional musical language? Why did the experimental currents that flourished in twentieth-century concert music leave no mark on film music? What happens when a film uses new music and avoids the usual stereotyped patterns? These questions are thoroughly analyzed in this book. María de Arcos traces the evolution of music and film music through the course of the twentieth century, leading to an examination of the effectiveness of an experimental musical language transferred to the screen. She concludes with a theoretical and practical analysis of the sound track of Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, ) by the renowned American composer Jerry Goldsmith. The novel musicological focus of this book will be a revelation to music and film researchers, critics and professionals, film school and conservatory students, and any readers interested in increasing their knowledge of film sound tracks and their evolution. The text is accompanied by scores and an illustrated glossary of musical terms. María de Arcos is a senior professor of composition at the Seville Conservatory. She has composed music for short films, film reports and a variety of types of film. María de Arcos earned her doctorate in from the Universidad de Sevilla and is currently a professor of piano and film music at the Francisco Guerrero Professional Conservatory in Seville.
st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Colección Popular. Subject: Cinema ISBN 9789505577606
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n original essay about famed Russian movie director Andrei Tarkovsky (-), the emblematic and polemic figure from the Soviet Union who built a reputation on the international film circuit. This essay addresses Tarkovsky’s artistic production, including his films, texts, and facts about his life. An ars poetica essential to structuring the director’s filmography, and one that describes improbability and memory as a shifting pact between man and his world.
Pilar Carrera Álvarez (Arboiro, ) received her PhD from the Parisian School of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. She is currently Assistant Dean of Carlos III University in Madrid, where she also teaches a seminar on Media Communications Theory at the Department of Journalism and Audio Visual Communication. She has published numerous articles in specialized reviews. In co-authorship with Miriam Redondo, she wrote Del narcisismo mediático (). She is also among the authors who collaborated on Percepción del riesgo y síndrome de invulnerabilidad (). • An original perspective regarding the great Soviet director’s cinematographic œuvre • An in-depth essay, rooted in the theoretical constructs of Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin
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El Taller de Gráfica Popular
[The Man in Black]
[The People’s Graphic Arts Workshop]
Helio Flores st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × in) Collection: Tezontle. Subject: Political cartoons ISBN 9789681683948
Humberto Musacchio st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. x cm ( x . in) Collection: Arte Universal. Subject: Art ISBN 9789681677039
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he Taller de Gráfica Popular (tgp; People’s Graphic Arts Workshop) was founded in Mexico in by Leopoldo Méndez and a group of other talented graphic artists and muralists. This book tells the story of the workshop, its members, and its importance to Mexico’s cultural and political landscape. The Gráfica Popular, as it was also known, soon adopted the extensive artistic heritage of Mexican engraving, legacy of caricaturists and illustrators of the stature of Joaquín Giménez, Constantino Escalante, Hesiquio Iriarte, Santiago Hernández, José María Villasana, Jesús T. Alamilla, Gabriel Vicente Gahona Picheta, and Manuel Manilla, and above all, José Guadalupe Posada, the master of Mexican engraving whose influence left an indelible mark on the Taller and its work.
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he Man in Black,” who made his appearance for the first time in in La Garrapata magazine, is one of the most important characters in Mexico’s cartoon history— not only because of the artist’s corrosive critique of a repressive, corrupt government, but also because of his alternative humor. Through this strip, Flores shifted the reader’s focus from dialogue to image. Rius said about Helio Flores’s creation that “he’s like a witness inside the comic strip, semi-speechless, weighty, fearsome, complicated, timid, hard to pin down. He’s definitely an enigma, because you never know what to expect from him.”
Humberto Musacchio (b. ) studied economics at the University of Mexico, and coordinated and directed the Revista Mexicana de la Cultura. He was a cofounder and assistant director of the newspaper La Jornada and has worked at a number of Mexico’s major newspapers, Unomásuno, El Día, El Nacional, Excélsior, Novedades and La Jornada. He is the author of several books, including Diccionario enciclopédico de México.
Helio Flores (Xalapa, ) studied architecture at Veracruz University, and graphic design at the New York School of Visual Arts. His professional career began in , in the Diario de Xalapa newspaper and La Gallina magazine. In , he founded and co-edited La Garrapata, while at the same time contributing to a variety of periodicals, including El Mitote Ilustrado, Novedades, Siempre!, Ovaciones and Por Qué? As a political cartoonist for El Universal since , Flores received on two separate occasions the Grand Prix awarded by the International Cartoon Salon of Montreal ( and ). He is a four-time winner of Mexico’s National Journalism Award (, , , ). The Mexican Association of Cartoonists gave him the National Cartoon Award in , and the House of Journalism, its Cartoon Prize in .
• Includes more than engravings by key artists in Mexico’s modern history, such as Leopoldo Méndez, Miguel Covarrubias, David Alfaro Sequeiros, Pablo O’Higgins, Luis Arenal, Raúl Anguiano, José Chávez Morado, Alfredo Zalce, Ángel Bracho and Mariana Yampolsky
• In Mexico, where there’s a long, solid tradition of comic strips, Helio Flores is among the best contemporary cartoonists • This edition includes a series of texts by Carlos Monsiváis
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El hombre de negro
ART
Pasado y presente de los verbos leer y escribir
Moradas del intérprete
[The Interpreter’s Abodes]
[Past and Present of the Verbs Read and Write]
Nilo Palenzuela st ed., Fce Spain, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Tierra Firme. Subjects: Essay, Art, Art History ISBN 8437506018
Emilia Ferreiro
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n these essays, Nilo Palenzuela writes about a diverse collection of twentieth-century writers and artists from Europe and the New World. He presents their essential poetic and philosophical positions as ‘interpreters;’ those who are first of all creators, caught on the edge between modernity and tradition (Unamuno, Borges, Klee, Arp, Tamayo, Paz); those who are interpreters who crack open the doors of language onto thought (María Zambrano, García Bacca, Eugenio Trías); and those who uphold the expression of contemporary freedom (Vicente Rojo, Francisco Toledo, Mario Merz). Archetypes, forms of representation, actions, and textual references are combined to reveal the fractured face of the modern subject. Since the beginnings of modernity, the urge to rebel against the old order has always existed side by side with ongoing criticism of narcissistic excess and the will to power; a rebellion that seeks to put creative work, words, images into play, into life. Moradas del intérprete is a unique example of current essay-writing in Spanish, a creative interpretation that transcends national borders. Nilo Palenzuela (Canary Islands, ) is a writer and professor of Spanish literature at Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife). He is also known for his writing on contemporary art and esthetics. He is a regular contributor to numerous journals, including Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Letras Libres, Vuelta, Revista de Occidente, Missives, and Quimera, among others.
nd ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Colección Popular. Subject: Literacy ISBN 9789505577620
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very era brings new meaning to the verbs read and write. New technologies have introduced profound, drastic changes, demanding greater flexibility in the usage of written language. While impoverished countries still haven’t overcome illiteracy, rich countries have discovered aliteracy: they’ve come to recognize that basic education is no guarantee of future reading. If democracy is incompatible with illiteracy among its citizens, full democracy requires levels of literacy above and beyond being able to spell, or sign one’s name. Being educated as readers is a right for girls and boys who’ll become free women and men in a world where linguistic and cultural diversity is already as important as biodiversity. This text is destined to prick consciences and present methodological concerns, theoretical stances, and political options with regards to the current status of reading and writing worldwide.
Emilia Ferreiro was born in Argentina in . She received her PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she studied under Jean Piaget. She’s internationally renowned for her contributions to understanding the evolutionary process by which written language is acquired. She has received seven honoris causa. From her vast body of work, Fondo de Cultura Económica has also published Cultura escrita y educación () and Narrar por escrito desde un personaje (). • A fundamental work by this international expert on reading and writing • Contextualized within one of the main currents of contemporary intellectual debate
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Del jardín a la terciaria: una introducción al rol de la biblioteca en la educación del siglo xxi
[Written Narration from Characters: A Children’s Approach to Literature]
[An Introduction to the Role of the Library in st Century Education]
Emilia Ferreiro and Ana Siro
Mabel Kolesas st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × in) Collection: Educación y Pedagogía. Subject: School libraries ISBN 9789505577415
st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Espacios para la Lectura. Subjects: Reading, writing ISBN 9789505577439
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s it possible to surprise children with new versions of traditional stories? In this book, the authors pose the same question to children age to from the suburbs of Buenos Aires who are participating in a singular didactic project. The goal: to explore how children write and find their narrative voices through traditional folktales handed down for centuries. Every child retells these stories in the first person, using the voices and perspectives of different characters. Hungry wolves, envious stepsisters, and supportive little dwarves become the narrators. This rich experience is then analyzed using speech act theory.
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lready in the st century, technological innovations have posed multiple challenges to the world of libraries. What, then, is the current role of library and librarian on different teaching levels? This book provides answers and detailed examples, seeking to promote reading, literacy through different sources, and collaboration with pedagogical tasks. Kolesas presents an accessible, attractive guide to library modernization in keeping with the challenges posed by the st century, showing how to transform students into avid readers.
Mabel Kolesas received her degree in Library Technology and Documentation from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She is currently Director of the Teachers’ Library, a division of the Ministry of Education. She also acts as Head of the Center of Documentation and Information at the Gino Germani Institute of Research, a section of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. She received a fomec grant to research optimization of resources from the Social Sciences Libraries of New York University, Columbia University, and the Library of Congress. She is co-author of the book “Si Gutenberg viviera…” Cómo y dónde buscar información (Aique, ).
Emilia Ferreiro was born in Argentina in . She received her PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she studied under Jean Piaget. She’s internationally renowned for her contributions to understanding the evolutionary process by which written language is acquired. She has received seven honoris causa. From her vast body of work, Fondo de Cultura Económica has also published Cultura escrita y educación () and Pasado y presente de los verbos leer y escribir (). Ana Siro completed her Master’s at the cinvestav Department of Educational Research in Mexico City. At the National University of La Plata she researches projects that analyze linguistic practices.
• A diagnosis of the current status of scholarly libraries and librarians • A unique guide that shows how to organize school libraries in keeping with our times
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Narrar por escrito desde un personaje: acercamiento de los niños a lo literario
HISTORY
Museo del Oro. Patrimonio milenario de Colombia
La ley de los profanos: delito, justicia y cultura en Buenos Aires: -
[The Gold Museum: Colombia’s Thousand-Year Heritage]
[Profane Laws: Crime, Justice and Culture in Buenos Aires (-)]
Photographs: Juan Mayr
Lila Caimari (ed.)
Text: Clara Isabel Botero, Roberto Lleras Pérez, Santiago Londoño Vélez and Efraín Sánchez Cabra
st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Historia. Subjects: Culture, Sociology ISBN 9789505577200
st ed., Fce/Banco de la República/Skira, Colombia, pp. × cm (. × in) Collection: Tezontle. Subject: Archeology ISBN 9789583801341 paperback) ISBN 9789583801358 hardcover
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a ley de los profanos explores the subject of crime, law, and justice for general readers. Its protagonists are “profane” in that they move outside consecrated circles, redefining crime itself, the transgressors who commit it, and the ways in which they are punished. The book explores literature, cinema, journalism, and photography in order to delve into the language and concepts used to define crime and punishment. Caimari shows how scientific, political, and legal definitions were resignified within late th-century and early th-century Buenos Aires society, thereby expanding the State’s capacity to exercise justice and control.
Lila Caimari is a researcher for conicet and a professor at San Andrés University. She is currently dedicated to researching the social and cultural history of urban crime.
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he Colombian Banco de la República’s Gold Museum has been classifying, exhibiting and conducting research on its collection of fifty thousand pre-Hispanic objects, which include works of gold, silver and other materials, since . This book includes more than two hundred photographs of the most important pieces. The book also includes brief notes about the pre-Hispanic societies that created the items, their ideology magnificently expressed in these pieces, the techniques they used and the symbolic values they assigned to the objects. In addition, illustrations, maps, and photographs of their territory provide further context for this extraordinary collection. Readers will discover the fascination and comprehend the fever aroused in the first conquistadores by the myth of El Dorado, as they learn how the past came to play a part in the identities of the societies that today occupy the New World. Reading this book is almost like visiting the Gold Museum.
Juan Mayr is a photographer, environmentalist and scholar of pre-Hispanic and indigenous societies. His pictorial vision makes the photographs of the Gold Museum’s collection— taken especially for this book—true works of art.
• A precise, original analysis of the social concepts of law, justice, and punishment • A historical perspective that sheds light on the origins of unnecessary social constructs
• The most complete book of the Gold Museum collection • With the magnificent photographs in this large format, full color de-luxe edition, present-day readers can experience the fascination of El Dorado
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Gobernantes mexicanos, t. i
[Mexican Leaders, vol. i]
[Mexico-US Relations (-) From Conflict to Cooperation]
Will Fowler (ed.) st ed., inehrm, st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Política y Derecho. Subjects: International relations, Mexico, United States ISBN 9789681683696 vol. i 9789681685034 series
Susana Chacón st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Política y Derecho. Subjects: International relations, Mexico, United States ISBN 9789681684655
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onflict and cooperation have always been the two fundamental aspects of relations between Mexico and the United States. The backdrop for bilateral exchange is one of marked asymmetry. After World War II, this relationship has seemed to satisfy the special interests of both countries. Maintaining the delicate balance between cooperation and conflict was just as pressing for the time period studied here as any other time from the end of the Mexican-American War between both countries and the present. The author focuses on three main themes: military cooperation accords, commercial treaties, and the Bracero Agreement of . She illustrates how at different points in time both countries have found a common ground despite their differences and inequities, thus making the transition from conflict to cooperation.
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ill Fowler brought together a group of specialists to study the nature of presidentialism in Mexico, comparing the policies of those who governed the country during the th and th centuries. The result: two volumes, intriguing and erudite, destined to become bedside reading for all who are interested in Mexican governmental politics. This volume compiles essays featuring the men who governed Mexico in the th century. Guadalupe Victoria, Antonio López de Santa Ana, Benito Juárez, and Porfirio Díaz are the protagonists of chapters that explain the socio-political contexts under which they governed, the domestic and foreign pressures they were confronted with, the constitutional limitations to which they were subjected and the political division they had to overcome.
Will Fowler is a historian who specializes in th century politics in Mexico and Latin America. He is also a Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He’s published Santa Anna of Mexico; Tornel and Santa Anna. The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico, - and Mexico in the Age of Proposals, -. With Humberto Morales Moreno, he compiled El conservadurismo mexicano en el siglo xix (-).
Susana Chacón received her PhD in History from the Ibero-American University and is now Director of Research and Development at Monterrey Tech’s Santa Fe campus. She has completed postgraduate research at Harvard University and Georgetown University. She’s the author of Energía, finanzas y narcóticos: la cara oculta de la política exterior de México, and coordinator of La crisis del petróleo en México, negociaciones diplomáticas, ¿un arte olvidado?, as well as Entre la globalización y la independencia. La política exterior de México -.
• The portraits of these Mexican leaders from the 19th and 20th centuries characterize them not only in keeping with their official capacities, but also as men in power
• “An innovative text currently of great importance with regards to the bilateral relations between Mexico and the United States” (Lorenzo Meyer) • An intelligent text that brings us closer to understanding the complex relationship between Mexico and the United States w w w. fo n do decu l tu raeco n o mi c a. com
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La relación entre México y Estados Unidos (-). Entre el conflicto y la cooperación
HISTORY
Alosno, palabra cantada. El año poético en un pueblo andaluz
Gobernantes mexicanos, t. ii
[Mexican Leaders, vol. ii]
[Alosno, Singing Words. A Poetic Year in an Andalusian Town]
Will Fowler (ed.) st ed., inehrm, st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Política y Derecho. Subjects: International relations, Mexico, United States ISBN 9789681683706 (vol. ii) 9789681685034 series
Manuel Garrido Palacios st ed., fce Spain, nd ed., fce Spain, pp. . × cm ( × in) Collection: Antropología. Subject: Cultural anthropology ISBN 8437503127
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ill Fowler brought together a group of specialists to study the nature of presidentialism in Mexico, comparing the policies of those who governed the country during the th and th centuries. The result: two volumes, intriguing and erudite, destined to become bedside reading for all who are interested in Mexican governmental politics. The second volume, dedicated to the th century, features presidents who were both contradictory and fascinating. Presidents who provoked reactions that ranged from admiration to aberration. Presidents such as Álvaro Obregón, Plutarco Elías Calles, Lázaro Cárdenas, Miguel Alemán, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, and Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Like it or not, these men were fairly representative of the society they governed. While scrutinizing them it’s inevitable to view, in passing, the nation that helped bring them into power.
he Year, with its cycles of work and festivals, is similar in much of Catholic Europe, because Christmases and Carnivals, Lents and May Days, Saint John, summer and autumn celebrations run throughout… with similar characteristics, generally speaking, in Andalusia and beyond. But what people—I ask myself—are capable of generating a new verbal expression as abundant and rich for this general, festive cycle? Alosno, the town described in this beautiful book, sings and expresses its collective emotions in an amazing fashion.” (From the prologue by Julio Caro Baroja)
Manuel Garrido Palacios, writer and folklore specialist, is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language of New York. He has been distinguished with the title of “Alosno’s Adopted Son,” as well as numerous recognitions for his considerable efforts to recover the customs and traditions of different Spanish towns. His television series Raíces, which was broadcast for twenty-five years (-), continues to be a paradigm and model of how ethnographic studies should be approached.
Will Fowler is a historian who specializes in th century policy in Mexico and Latin America. He is also a Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He’s published Santa Anna of Mexico; Tornel and Santa Anna. The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico, - and Mexico in the Age of Proposals, -. With Humberto Morales Moreno, he compiled El conservadurismo mexicano en el siglo xix (-). • The portraits of these Mexican leaders from the th and th centuries characterize them not only in keeping with their official capacities, but also as men in power
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• This book shows the amazing wealth of Andalusian word games • Manuel Garrido Palacios rediscovers—in his own words—“a train that passes through your door, giving you only one chance to hop on board”
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El libro rojo, vol. i
[Traveling to the Huasteca with Guy Stresser-Péan]
[The Red Book, vol. i]
Guy Stresser-Péan
st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Tezontle. Subjects: History of Mexico, Crime ISBN 9789681686147 paperback 9789681686154 hardcover
Gerardo Villadelángel (ed.)
st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Anthropology. Subjects: Indigenous society, The Huasteca ISBN 9789681685102
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his abundant, fully illustrated compendium is the result of what was, in the words of José Luis Martínez, one of the great Mexican publishing enterprises of the th century: an exercise in prose using the leitmotif of blood to link historiographic, literary, and journalistic accounts with present-day interpretations. A continuation of El libro rojo published in by Manuel Payno and Vicente Riva Palacio, nearly three hundred authors—historians, essayists, narrators, and visual artists—are included in this compilation, which is just a chip off the iceberg of all the violent crime that has taken place in Mexico from to .
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iaje a la Huasteca is the result of more than years of research on the Huasteca region of Mexico. Guy StresserPéan has not only witnessed the long-enduring Totonac flyers’ dance, he’s taken part in its celebration. Viaje a la Huasteca unveils one of the least known—if not forgotten—millenary civilizations of Mesoamerica. The author is “heir to a scientific tradition in which figures such as Baron Von Humboldt, Eduard Seler, Konrad Theodor Preuss, Hermann Beyer, Alfonso Caso, and Paul Kirchhoff became famous.” Dominique Michelet called Stresser-Péan “a wise man in a world that hardly has anything left but scientists.” Guy Stresser-Péan () graduated from the Sorbonne with degrees in anthropology, political sciences, and geology. He was Director of the French Archeological and Ethnological Mission in Mexico (which would later become the Center of Mexican and Central American Studies) for years. He began excavations at the Tamtok site in , and in he was awarded the National Prize by the National Academy of Anthropological Studies. His publications include San Antonio Nogalar, la sierra de Tamaulipas y la frontera norte de Mesoamérica (); El arado criollo in México y América Central (); El códice de Xicotepec: estudio e interpretación, co-published by the fce in ; Los lienzos de Acaxochitlán (); and Le Soleil-Dieu et le Christ. La christianisation des Indiens du Mexique, vue de la Sierra de Puebla ().
• This is the first in a three-volume series encompassing tales of historic crimes that have taken place in Mexico from to • The edition is richly illustrated by the most widely-known artists
• Viaje a la Huasteca is the fruit of over a half-century of research carried out by one of the most outstanding figures in Mexican anthropology • This book contains revelations about ethnology, botany, anthropology, linguistics, and history; allowing for a better understanding of cultures from the Huasteca region w w w. fo n do decu l tu raeco n o mi c a. com
Gerardo Villadelángel Viñas (Mexico City, ). After studying Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he attended the Writers’ School of the General Society of Mexican Writers and the Menéndez Pelayo International University of Santander, Spain. He contributes to various periodicals nationwide and has ventured into editing as well. This book features texts by well-known authors such as Álvaro Uribe, Carlos Chimal, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, Luis Arturo Ramos, Jaime Moreno Villarreal, Adolfo Castañón, Jean Meyer, Enrique Krauze, and Paco Ignacio Taibo II, among others. Visual artists include Jan Hendrix, Perla Krauze, Mónica Castillo, and Emilio Said.
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Los privilegios del olvido. Antología personal
La noche caníbal
[The Cannibal Night] Luis Jorge Boone st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Breve. Subject: Short story ISBN 9789681682200
[The Privileges of Oblivion. A Personal Anthology] Piedad Bonnett Prologue by José Watanabe st ed., fce Colombia, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Tierra Firme. Subject: Poetry ISBN 9789583801464
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n anthology of poems from all of Piedad Bonnet’s works, new and old. A prologue by Peruvian poet José Watanabe broadens the scope of Los privilegios del olvido. With regards to Piedad Bonnett’s work, Ramón de Zubiría wrote: “If I were compelled to pin down the underground, secret virtue sustaining what I consider to be this poetry’s vigor, beauty, and singularity, I wouldn’t hesitate to ascribe it to the wealth of poetic intuitions that, from down below, mark the genesis of poems and impeccable expressive tailoring with which these intuitions are marked in her texts.”
Piedad Bonnett () is one of the most renowned poets in her generation. She’s also a novelist (published by Alfaguara in Colombia), playwright, translator, essayist, professor of the Andes University of Bogotá, and correspondent member of the Colombian Academy of the Spanish Language. For her first book of poetry, De círculo y ceniza (), she received an honorable mention in the Octavio Paz HispanicAmerican Poetry Contest. In , she published Ese animal triste, reaffirming her status as one of the most representative voices of contemporary Colombian poetry. She was honored in with the National Poetry Prize awarded by Colcultura for El hilo de los días. Her other books of poems include Nadie en casa (), Todos los amantes son guerreros () and Tretas del débil ().
he texts in this book are difficult to classify: somewhere between the genres of short story and novella, different protagonists disrupt the reality filtering their fears, fantasies, and delirious visions. Clear, concise prose without grandiose pretensions, La noche caníbal shows the author’s narrative maturity and his preference for fantasy and science fiction atmospheres that recall Jorge Luis Borges, or Philip K. Dick.
Luis Jorge Boone was born in Monclova, Coahuila, in . He is a poet, narrator, and essayist who has contributed to various magazines, such as Letras Libres, Luvina, Voz Otra and Tierra Adentro. He’s the author of Legión () and Galería de armas rotas (). He also appears in the anthologies Pensar con los ojos abiertos (, poetry), Homenaje a Philip K. Dick (, essay), and ¿El crimen como una de las bellas artes? III, (, short story). He has received scholarships from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (-) and from the Foundation for Mexican Literature (-). He won the Salvador Gallardo Dávalos National Prize for Young Literature for his poetry, the Inés Arredondo National Short Story Prize in , and the Clemencia Isaura Poetry Prize in . He is currently a teacher, cultural promoter, and workshop coordinator. • A compilation of various short stories, some already published in magazines, some in print for the first time • Luis Jorge Boone is a young author who has nonetheless received awards and widespread recognition
• Piedad Bonnett () is one of the most renowned poets in her generation • An anthology of all Piedad Bonnett’s poems, new and old
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Palabras en reposo
[Words at Rest] Alí Chumacero st ed., fce Mexico pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Grandes Letras. Subjects: Poetry, Mexican literature ISBN 9789681685997
[Artaud, Still] Fabienne Bradu st ed., fce Mexico pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Vida y Pensamiento de México. Subject: Literary criticism ISBN 9789681684587
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ntonin Artaud’s mysteriously discreet visit to Mexico in has become both a cult theme and an impenetrable challenge for scholars, who now and again revive the hope of digging up unpublished documents, or encountering unknown testimonies that will clarify and materialize his presence here. Fabienne Bradu reconstructs a conversation sustained through the correspondence of Guatemalan poet Luis Cardoza y Aragón and Paule Thévenin—who edited Artaud’s complete works at Gallimard—in which letters compose a mirror reflecting the outline of the French author in Mexico.
Fabienne Bradu, born in France, is a writer, literary critic, and researcher of the Institute of Philological Investigations at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (unam). She’s a contributor to the magazines Vuelta and Letras Libres and the French translator of Mexican writers Juan Rulfo, Xavier Villaurrutia, José Vasconcelos, Octavio Paz, and Francisco Rebolledo, among others. In November , the Mexican government awarded her the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle Medal, Insignia degree, for her work in promoting Mexican literature. • Fabienne Bradu is among Mexico’s best-known contemporary researchers and critics • This book is a continuation of the kind of essays Bradu has written throughout her academic career within Mexican literary circles, which have been notably successful
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alabras en reposo comes from the pen of one of Mexico’s most important poets, whose clear, profound lyricism can be traced through three volumes of poetry: Páramo de sueños, Imágenes desterradas and Palabras en reposo. A strict formalist who disdains profusion or proliferation, Chumacero’s words correspond to the internal development of poetic concepts in the compositions found in this book. From this affinity—often manifested by allusions, rather than direct references—a testimony of a world emerges in which the elegiac is transformed into images that outlast songs. Palabras en reposo was first published in . It is a book that requires more than one reading and is formed by two halves that are an entrance into and exit from poetic matter: “Precarious search” and “Gentle exile.” The poet Alí Chumacero was born in Acaponeta, Nayarit in . He was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Tierra Nueva (-), which he also co-directed. He edited the monthly review Calendario de Ramón López Velarde and several issues of Letras de México (-). He was also copy editor of El Hijo Pródigo (-). He has worked as an editor for the Fondo de Cultura Económica since . While at the Ministry of Public Education, he launched the Septentas collection. He is the author of Páramo de sueños (, Rueca Prize for best book by a young writer,) Imágenes desterradas (), and Palabras en reposo (). His complete poetry was published in . He received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in .
• Alí Chumacero is one of the most renowned poets in Mexican literature
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Artaud, todavía
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Teatro completo, i
Diccionario crítico de la literatura mexicana (-)
[The Complete Plays, i]
[Critical Dictionary of Mexican Literature (-)]
Vicente Leñero st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( . × in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Mayor. Subject: Drama ISBN 9789681679958 (hardcover) 9789681679965 (paperback)
Christopher Domínguez Michael st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Mayor. Subject: Literary criticism ISBN 9789681684785 (hardcover) 9789681684525 (paperback)
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n this book, Christopher Domínguez Michael–perhaps Mexico’s most important literary critic—has compiled and arranged his written reflections on Mexican literature. The Diccionario crítico de la literatura mexicana spans from to , a half-century that began with the watershed publication of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo. This book contains two separate works: a personal anthology, and a dictionary of authors. In the former, Domínguez Michael selects fragments, essays, or articles previously published in his many books and anthologies. As a dictionary of authors, this book is a monument to freedom of choice—governed by the taste and gaze of a literary critic—, whose interpretative playfulness constructs an order that is determined not only by routine, but by alphabetic surprises as well. Christopher Domínguez Michael was born in Mexico City in . He is a literary critic, historian of ideas, and novelist. He’s a columnist and contributor to such prestigious periodicals as Proceso, Vuelta, Letras Libres and “El Angel” cultural section of the newspaper Reforma. He is the author of Antología de la narrativa mexicana del siglo xx, Tiros en el concierto (for which he received the Guillermo Rousset Banda National Prize for Literary Essays and Political Criticism), La utopía de la hospitalidad, Servidumbre y grandeza de la vida literaria, Toda suerte de libros paganos and La sabiduría sin promesa. His Vida de Fray Servando was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in .
his first volume compiles plays by Vicente Leñero, from Pueblo rechazado to ¡Pelearán diez rounds! An anthology that encompasses the first years of dramatic creation by this author, Teatro completo, i, is a compendium of undeniably fertile literary talent. With impeccable formal mastery, Leñero succeeds in profiling the multifaceted character and human side of a complex society through his chronicle of the present and inquisition of the past. His work forms a pluralized, dramatic semblance of a community in constant contradiction with itself, giving expression to basic themes such as freedom, rebellion, power, and imagination.
Vicente Leñero (Guadalajara, Jalisco, ). Novelist, playwright, short story writer, screenplay writer, critic, and author of articles, he studied civil engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (unam) before enrolling in the Carlos Septién García Journalism School. Since , he’s been a member of the National System of Artistic Creators. His many recognitions include the Seix Barral Brief Library Prize (), the Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Prize ( and ), the Jalisco Literary Prize (), the Mazatlán Literature Prize (), the Juan Ruiz de Alarcón National Dramaturgy Prize (), the Ariel Cinematographic Prize for the screenplay El callejón de los milagros (), and the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (). • All 12 plays by Vicente Leñero, in one volume • A major contribution to the promotion of 20th century Mexican drama
• Christopher Domínguez’s stature in Mexican literary criticism makes this compilation a must-read
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A favor del tiempo [Antología]
[Selected Plays]
[In Favor of Time (Anthology)]
Óscar Liera
Juan Malpartida
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st ed., fce Spain, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Tierra Firme. Subject: Poetry ISBN 8437506159
ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Mayor. Subject: Drama ISBN 9789681685430 (hardcover) 9789681685423 (paperback)
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eatro escogido by Óscar Liera is a compilation of this author’s most outstanding dramatic creations. El jinete de la Divina Providencia, El oro de la revolución mexicana, El Crescencio, Los camaleones, La fuerza del hombre, Las Ubarry, El gordo, Aquí no pasa nada, Bajo el silencio, Un misterioso pacto, and Los negros pájaros del adiós are plays loaded with black humor in which the characters seem to leap from page to stage. These are just some of the works that accompany El camino rojo a Sabaiba, not only considered to be the peak of Lira’s drama, but also one of the high points of literature written for the stage in Mexico’s recent history. Óscar Liera ( Jesus Óscar Camarillas Flores) was born December , in Culiacán, Sinaloa where he also died on January , . He studied acting at the Theater Arts School (eat) (-). He was one of the most important Mexican playwrights of the second half of the th century, a master in the avant-garde known as Border Literature. Liera’s works are recognized for their humor and pitiless criticism of Church and State, as well as their innovative dramatic structure. Liera wrote plays. His best-known works include El camino rojo a Sabaiba, El jinete de la Divina Providencia, Los negros pájaros del adiós, and Los camaleones. He founded the Theater Workshop of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (tatuas), where he staged numerous plays, many of them openly critical of the government.
• Liera is of Mexico’s most famous playwrights
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he first impression Juan Malpartida’s writing gives is one of profound unity. Despite encompassing many genres (poetry, novel, essay, literary criticism, journal entries) his obsessions and landscapes, tastes and distastes, rhythms and phrasing are basically the same. This volume, A favor del tiempo, offers a selection of poems from the six books our author has published so far (plus some unpublished works,) allowing us to revisit an œuvre that visibly breaks away from the realist tendency that has recently dominated our poetry. Not by refuting it, but rather correcting and qualifying it, offering a richer, more satisfactory (and in the end, more plausible) conceptualization of reality. Malpartida doesn’t hesitate to take the Witness of modern tradition, or the legacy of different isms from Romanticism onwards that are in our language and our literature; doing so from a critical distance that is, in the strictest sense, aware of having inhabited a different time: the time of the artist who is yet another citizen, someone who participates in the rhythms and tensions of the modern city.” (From the prologue by Jordi Doce)
Juan Malpartida (Málaga, Spain ) is a poet, novelist, and literary critic. His recent work includes Hora rasante, El pozo (poetry), La perfección indefensa, Los rostros del tiempo (essay), and the novels La tarde a la deriva and Reloj de viento. • The poems of this anthology are written “in favor of time,” not the kind found on a watch, but rather the kind we measure by steps and weave into existence • Malpartida’s extensive œuvre as an author well-versed in several genres reaches its peak with this poetic anthology
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Teatro escogido
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La novela colombiana. Planetas y satélites
Hombres in/visibles. La representación de la masculinidad en la ficción latinoamericana, -
[In/visible Men. The Representation of Masculinity and Male Subjectivity in th Century Latin American Fiction] Mark Millington st ed., fce Colombia, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Tierra Firme. Subjects: Gender Studies, Latin American Literature ISBN 9789583801402
[The Colombian Novel: Planets and Satellites] Seymour Menton st ed., Plaza y Janés, Colombia, nd ed., fce Colombia, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Tierra Firme. Subjects: Magical realism, La violencia novels ISBN 9789583801457
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sing astronomical analogies, Seymour Menton analyzes and critiques four outstanding Colombian novels: María by Jorge Isaacs, representing Romanticism; Frutos de mi tierra by Tomás Carrasquilla, representing Realism; La vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera, about the ruling class of European descent; and Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, representing the new Hispanic-American novel, the “Boom,” and magical realism. The new, updated edition of this book makes no changes in its initial interpretations, however, it incorporates additional studies of more recent, masterful novels by Álvaro Mutis, Fernando Vallejo, Gabriel García Márquez, and others. Finally, Menton’s book provides a manual for novelists, explaining the criteria employed in passing down value judgments. During his teaching career—which spans sixty years— Seymour Menton has taught in Dartmouth College, the University of Kansas, the University of California at Irvine, the Guanajuato Federal Institute of Rural Teacher Training in Mexico, the University of San Carlos in Guatemala, and the University of Costa Rica. fce has published: El cuento hispanoamericano, La nueva novela histórica de la América Latina, Historia verdadera del realismo mágico, Caminata por la narrativa latinoamericana and Un tercer gringo viejo: relatos y confesiones.
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his book examines the plural nature of men and the construction of masculinity, with all its tensions and uncertainties, in Latin American novels written from to — some of them as canonical as Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Güiraldes, Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos, Los pasos perdidos by Alejo Carpentier, São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos, or Jubiabá by Jorge Amado. In his analysis, Millington also includes experimental novels from the s and s (Zona sagrada by Carlos Fuentes, Los cachorros by Mario Vargas Llosa, Lavoura arcaica by Raduan Nassar); “psychological” novels from the s (En jirones by Luis Zapata, Solitario de amor by Cristina Peri Rossi); and short stories by Dalton Trevisan, Rubem Fonseca, and Elena Poniatowska.
Mark Millington was born in London and studied French and Spanish at Cambridge University, where he received his PhD in Latin American Literature. Since , he has been a professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published two books about Juan Carlos Onetti and has coordinated others on cultural theory. He is currently Director of the review Culture, Theory and Critique. Hombres in/visibles is his first book to be translated into Spanish. • Gender Studies tend to focus on women and, as a result, men are rendered invisible. This fascinating essay unveils their protagonism • Millington addresses themes such as subjectivity, relations between men and their parents, desire—both heterosexual and homosexual—, violence, the physical environment, modernity, modernization, and technology
• From Romanticism to the present, this book tackles major Colombian novelistic genres, including magical realism and novels about La violencia • Menton is a well-known specialist, dedicated to studying Hispanic American narrative for the past fifty years
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Poesía reunida
[The Collected Poems] Enriqueta Ochoa st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Poesía. Subject: Poetry ISBN 9789681680978
[Terra Cognita] Mauricio Montiel Figueiras st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Breve. Subject: Essay ISBN 9789681685218
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ach of the texts presented by Mauricio Montiel in this book—where literature, music, cinema, and different regions worldwide communicate and find a common ground—is composed of memory and desire. The conformation of this shared terra cognita, a metaphysical land constructed by the author, is reflected in the book’s fourpart structure: “Intimate latitudes,” “Selective memory,” “In the clouds,” and “Voyages around myself ”. The first contains brief, apparently unconnected essays that gradually, as we pass from one section to the next, acquire a stronger thematic consistency, giving the fragmented impression of an infinite or, at any rate, boundless narrative. Montiel Figueiras’ prose forms landscapes of the soul in the depths of which lies the promise of a vast horizon.
Mauricio Montiel Figueiras was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in . He is a narrator, essayist, translator, and journalist. He has published the short story collections Donde la piel es un tibio silencio, Insomnios del otro lado, La penumbra inconveniente and La piel insomne, as well as the poetry books Mirando cómo arde la amarga ciudad and Oscuras palabras para escuchar a Satie. His literary work has merited the Elías Nandino National Prize for Young Poetry and the Edmundo Valadés Latin American Short Story Prize, as well as a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (fonca) during - and -.
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f poetry is the forceful transformation of time into eternity, it is even more so in the poetry of Enriqueta Ochoa. Since Las urgencias de un Dios first appeared in , Ochoa has dedicated herself to delving into the confines of the soul where darkness and pain dwell. The works compiled here unveil a serene language that, far removed from men, converses with the unspeakable. In a world where reason has colonized our thinking, Ochoa’s poetry redeems a rare spiritual significance.
Enriqueta Ochoa was born in Torreón in . She is the author of Las urgencias de un Dios (), Los himnos del ciego (), Las vírgenes terrestres (), Retorno de Electra (), Canción de Moisés (), Bajo el oro pequeño de los trigos (, ), Asaltos a la memoria () and Los días delirantes (unpublished). She is a dedicated journalist and has taught in various national and international universities. • This is one of the richest books of poetry in Mexican literature • Ochoa’s work is a marvel for its mystic and spiritual content
• Mauricio Montiel is one of Mexico’s best-known contemporary narrators • Mauricio Montiel’s writing, with its clear, fluid style, attracts a broad audience in part because it encompasses different genres and themes
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Teatro completo
El andariego. Poemas -
[The Complete Plays]
[The Wanderer. Poems, -]
Carlos Olmos st ed., fce Mexico, + pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Mayor. Subject: Drama ISBN 9789681675219
Hugo Padeletti st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Tierra Firme. Subject: Argentinean poetry ISBN 9789505577217
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he complete works of Carlos Olmos would doubtless occupy several volumes. This, however, constitutes a worthy introduction to his œuvre, given that it includes original plays that represent some of the best in contemporary Spanish-language theater. These works, characterized by their succinct language, dramatic action, and sympathetic characters, are the definitive authorized versions revised by the author himself after having staged them. Their belated success is perhaps due to the fact that, according to Carlos Olmos, the public has always been first and foremost “a phenomenon of perception.”
Carlos Olmos was born in Tapachula, Chiapas, in . He soon discovered his talent as a playwright: his first work, Juegos fatuos () was well received by major theatrical figures such as Salvador Novo, Emilio Carballido, Sergio Magaña and Xavier Rojas, who took it upon himself to stage the play. Highly knowledgeable about classic Spanish theater and modern repertoire—and also known for his sharp sarcasm and heavy-handed sense of humor—, Carlos Olmos was able to accompany his career with a no less successful trajectory in genres as diverse as adaptation, theatrical criticism, screenplays, soap operas for television and radio, and opera librettos. Carlos Olmos died in Mexico City in .
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wanderer, seeker, and meanderer, Hugo Padeletti nonetheless consolidates in this volume a great deal of his poetic work written during the years -. These poetic stations act as rest stops in a quest deeply rooted in Nature, one that draws from Christianity, Hinduism and Zen Buddhism. His style blends colloquialism with the Baroque: simple statements co-exist with others that demand insight. The great Argentinean writer Juan José Saer described Hugo Padeletti’s poetry as “reflexive and colloquial, ...intense.”
Hugo Padeletti, born in Argentina in , is a poet and visual artist. In , he published his complete works, Poems -, a book that received the Boris Vian Prize for that same year. His other books include Parlamentos del viento (), Apuntamientos en el Ashram () and La atención (), a compilation of his previous written work and a great deal of his graphic work as well. Canción de viejo unanimously received the National Fund for the Arts Prize in . Padeletti has also been honored with the Konex Platinum Prize () and a Guggenheim Grant in . • The author is a key figure in contemporary Argentinean poetry • This work brings together his major early poems
• This volume compiles original plays that were previously scattered among many different anthologies. They are capital to Mexican literature in particular, and Spanish-language drama in general • These are definitive versions, revised and corrected by the author himself
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[Face of a Saint. Poetic Anthology, -] Mario Santiago Papasquiaro st ed., fce Spain, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Poesía. Subject: Poetry ISBN 8437506173
[Garden of France] Elena Poniatowska st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Mayor. Subject: Cultural journalism ISBN 9789681685829 (paperback) 9789681685836 hardcover)
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ogether with Roberto Bolaño and Bruno Montané, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro was the main representative of the infra-realist movement (an avant-garde literary movement that broke away from the Mexican literary establishment) that emerged in . His poems were included by Bolaño in Muchachos desnudos bajo el arcoíris de fuego () and by Tulio Mora in Hora Zero: la última vanguardia latinoamericana (). Much of his best work is found in Jeta de santo. This is the first anthology of one of Latin America’s most irreverent and mythical poets. Many admirers and loyal followers of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro and the poets of the infra-realist movement will be interested in this work, a true literary event in the publishing world.
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro (Mexico City, ) was the pseudonym used by José Alfredo Zendejas Pineda. In he founded the magazine Zarazo, seed of the infra-realist movement that erupted in . Strongly moved by José Revueltas and Efraín Huerta, he grew to the Peruvian palpitation of the Hora Zero movement. From to he set off on what he used to call his laboratory of apprenticeship, traveling to Paris, Vienna, Barcelona, and Jerusalem. An tireless walker, he scattered poems and translations in streets and bars, complete manuscripts and books that would either be lost forever or appear in publications such as Pájaro de calor, Correspondencia infra, La prosa, Berthe Trépat, Hora de poesía, Calandria de tolvaneras and La zorra vuelve al gallinero.
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he chronicles and interviews that adorn this Jardín de Francia are but a small sample of the vast influence that France has had, not just on Elena Poniatowska’s work, but on Mexican daily life and the history of the West in general. These texts were written starting in , a time when Poniatowska interviewed several illustrious French citizens who were passing through our country; her chronicles revisit Parisian customs, cafés, and theaters, registering a vast panorama of literature, science, and music, among many other themes.
Elena Poniatowska () is one of the most widely recognized figures in the Mexican cultural sphere. Her intellectual career began in the newspaper Excélsior in . During that decade and the next, she became known in Mexico for a new journalism that blended fact and fiction. Her journalistic and literary labors have merited various awards, including the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (which she rejected in ) for La noche de Tlatelolco, and the Alfaguara Novel Prize in for La piel en el cielo—a book recognized by the Chinese government as the best Spanish-speaking novel of . • A portrayal of some of France’s great literary figures • Poniatowska is one of the most illustrious Mexican intellectuals of the th century
• A repertoire that uses words as musical instruments; a score of light for the conductor who brandishes a baton of shadow
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Jeta de santo. Antología poética, -
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Cantar de lejanía. Antología personal
Cartografías de la conciencia española en la Edad de Oro
[Poems of Distance: A Personal Anthology]
[Mapping Spain’s Conscience during the Golden Age]
Juan Manuel Roca
Elena del Río Parra st ed., fce Colombia, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Tierra Firme. Subject: Literature ISBN 958380102X
st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Lengua y Estudios Literarios. Subject: Spanish literature, Golden Age ISBN 9789681684037
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he conscience and how it was managed were fundamental to Spain during the th and th centuries; however, “unlike Justice, Soul, Sin, or Virtue, neither allegories nor emblems of Conscience exist in Spanish Golden Age thought.” Rather, we find legislation—religious or non-religious—about what’s right and wrong treated as the summae of specific cases. In this monographic essay, Elena del Río Parra studies the imagery of an era vital to the Hispanic world in order to show us—through literary, religious, and legal texts, but above all, conscience manuals—the dynamics of social behavior and an obsession to regulate the world.
Elena del Río Parra is a specialist in literature and culture from the Golden Centuries of Spain, although other areas of expertise include colonial Hispanic-American poetry and th century Latin American narrative. She has contributed articles to various reviews, including: Revista de Filología Española, Dicenda, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispanófila, Ínsula, Hispanic Research Journal, Hispania, and the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. She has also completed or participated in diverse critical or annotated editions of literary works. Since she has been an Assistant Professor of the Department of Classic and Modern Languages at Georgia State University. Her first published book, Una era de monstruos: Representaciones de lo deforme en el Siglo de Oro (Vervuert-Iberoamericana, ), complements this new essay.
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uan Manuel Roca is recognized as one of the most quintessential Colombian poets of his time. His poetry is one vast reflection on achieving freedom through imagination. This personal anthology brings together the recurring themes that he normally engages in: death, silence, water, words, night, and time. The anthology includes twelve books—from Luna de ciegos () to Las hipótesis de Nadie (), which received the Colombia Ministry of Culture National Poetry Award—together with a number of previously unpublished poems. This edition includes a foreword by Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas and an afterword by Spanish publisher Manuel Borras.
Juan Manuel Roca is a Colombian poet, fiction author, and essayist, born in Medellín in . His books of poetry include Luna de ciegos, Ciudadano de la noche, and La farmacia del ángel. He is also the author of two books of essays, Museo de encuentros and Cartógrafa memoria, a short story collection Las plagas secretas y otros cuentos, and the novel Esa maldita costumbre de morir. • Cantar de lejanía received the Jose Lezama Lima Casa de las Américas Special Award ‘for bringing together, in verses written over the span of thirty years, the best and most personal of a compelling œuvre’ • A foreword by Gonzalo Rojas and afterword by Manuel Borras enrich the vision of the collection
• The texts referred to by the author provide a better understanding of Spanish thought and morality during this era, allowing us to see classic works from the same period in a different light
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[Their Eyes Are Fire] Gonzalo Soltero 1st ed., Ediciones La Rana, 2004 2nd ed., fce Mexico, 2007 pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Breve. Subject: Novel ISBN 9789681682668
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[The Collected Poems] Víctor Sandoval st ed., fce Mexico, pp. x cm (. x . in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Poesía. Subject: Poetry ISBN 9789681685843
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his volume compiles the poetic works of Víctor Sandoval, distinguished not only for its concentration and brevity, but also for its rhythmic and metaphoric capacity. Given the importance of this poet’s work, this is an essential volume in the catalog of Mexican literature.
Víctor Sandoval was born in Aguascalientes in . He received the Fine Arts medal in . He founded the magazine Tierra Adentro, in addition to many other projects promoting literature and culture. He was General Director of the National Institute of Fine Arts (inba). He has received numerous national and international prizes and is a member of the National System of Creators of Art. He has published El veterano de guerra, Poemas a la juventud, Retorno, Para empezar el día, Fraguas, Agua de temporal, Trovas de amor y desdenes, Coplas que mis oídos oyeron. His poems have been translated into English, Italian, Greek, Dutch, German, and Arabic.
n this, his first novel, Soltero establishes himself as an intelligent, vigorous narrator who knows how to blend suspense with humor, successfully maintaining the reader’s interest thanks to a deceptively simple, but effective structure. Adrián Ustoria, the scientist and protagonist of this story, is jealously guarding a project that will soon take him out onto the streets, in order to discover the strange relationship it has with strange things that are happening in the city. Gonzalo Soltero’s narrative portrays Mexico City as a laboratory where the apocalypse silently weaves its web; where the dark forces that inhabit it, besiege it, and circulate within it darken its heights and tear open its entrails.
Gonzalo Soltero (Mexico City, ) is the author of Crónicas de neón y asfalto (short stories, ), Tocha (children’s literature, ) and Sus ojos son fuego, his first novel, which won the Jorge Ibargüengoitia National Prize and sold out in less than a year. He works in publishing, academics, and cultural activities in Mexico and England. He’s contributed to magazines such as Nexos, Letras Libres, and Replicante.
• Víctor Sandoval is a major author of contemporary Mexican poetry
• Gonzalo Soltero is a young narrator who demonstrates the vitality of Mexican literature today • Sus ojos son fuego has been widely acclaimed by both critics and the general public
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LITERATURE
Sus ojos son fuego
Poesía reunida
LITERATURE
Honor de los vencidos. Antología (-)
Tocar el fuego
[Touching Fire]
[The Honor of the Vanquished. Anthology (-)]
Eraclio Zepeda st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Letras Mexicanas, Serie Mayor. Subject: Novel ISBN 9789681684228 (hardcover) 9789681684211 (paperback)
Luis Antonio de Villena st ed., fce Spain, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Tierra Firme. Subject: Poetry ISBN 8437506197
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ver the course of more than thirty years of dedicated writing, Luis Antonio de Villena has built a solid poetic œuvre, while maintaining a copious bibliography of translated works on subjects as varied as Ancient Greece and Rome, heterodox Italians, or Japanese samurai. His stature as a poet is evident from the fact that several of his books were major hits in their day. A member of the group known in Spain as the Generation of , his poetry explores edgy writing propositions, reconciling them into one that might tentatively be defined as social culturalism, aesthetic aestheticism or Baroque sentimentality. At any rate, what best defines his poetry—aside from carefully chosen language that draws as much from the classics as it does from the gay or red-light districts—is its vindication of a series of figures (the libertine, the outsider, the dissident...) and values (sensuality, solidarity, friendship, happiness, and pleasure as pathways of understanding). This anthology of his poetic works under the auspices of Martín Rodríguez-Gaona constitutes the continuum of a spiritual and physical adventure, multifaceted and unfinished, without divisions or thematic or chronological ordering, reuniting texts from books of poetry published from to .
Luis Antonio de Villena (Madrid, ) is a poet, narrator, and essayist. His bibliography totals over fifty titles. He received the Critic’s Award in , among other honors. His books of poetry include, among others, La belleza impura, Asuntos de delirio, Marginados and La prosa del mundo.
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ver since he first started writing, Eraclio Zepeda has applied his imagination to serving his land: the state of Chiapas. Its atmospheres, stories, and people have populated his literature. Now he launches into a daring adventure: portraying over a century of history in a narrative tetratology that begins with Las grandes lluvias (published by the fce in ). “This is a task I imposed on myself many years ago. I wanted to complete a series of novels about Chiapas: the social complexity, the climate, the geography.” These novels are governed by the four elements: earth, water, wind, and fire. Born out of bibliographical research, stories overheard at home, or family mementos, all four stories—in this case, Tocar el fuego—are an attempt to tell the story of Chiapas by portraying a family from into the th century.
Eraclio Zepeda was born in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, in . He is a poet, narrator, politician, occasional actor and storyteller who, after having published three books of short stories and one novel, has become a basic reference for the transformation of Mexico’s oral tradition into literature. He was a member of the group of poets known as La espiga amotinada. He has written Benzulul, Asalto nocturno and Andando en el tiempo, a book that merited the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and the Chiapas Art Prize in . As for his political career, he has acted as Secretary of the Interior of Chiapas and Mexican Ambassador to the unesco.
• Eraclio Zepeda is one of Mexico’s best contemporary writers • An excellent novel with an interesting slant and engrossing plot • The poetic creations of Luis Antonio de Villena stand as one of the most important œuvres in the Spanish language
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Filosofía de la filosofía
[The Philosophy of Philosophy]
[By One’s Own Hand: A Study of Suicidal Practices]
José Gaos Edited by Alejandro Rossi st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Filosofía. Subject: Epistemology ISBN 9789681686291
Diana Cohen Agrest st ed., fce Argentina, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Filosofía. Subject: Suicidal behavior ISBN 9789505577224
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ohen Agrest analyzes the position held by suicidal practices in social imagery and asks herself about the meaning of human life and the right to determine the end of one’s own existence. Her exhaustive research lingers on philosophers like Plato, Saint Agustin, Thomas Aquinas, Donne, Spinoza, and Kant, reviewing emblematic events such as Socrates’ suicide, Jesus’ death, kamikaze practices and contemporary homicide-suicides. Without neglecting her philosophical voice, Cohen Agrest incorporates the perspectives of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and proposals that favor prevention. She also addresses the issues of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, as well as those that are pertinent to children and adolescents. Diana Cohen Agrest holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires and a MA in Bioethics from the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Australia. She’s currently a researcher and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. Her books include: El suicidio: deseo imposible. O la paradoja de la muerte voluntaria en la filosofía de Baruj Spinoza (), Temas de bioética para inquietos morales () and Inteligencia ética para la vida cotidiana ().
• A rigorous approach to a pressing issue in contemporary society • The author anchors her perspective in an open defense of human dignity, autonomy, and liberty
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o Spanish philosophers, the name José Gaos signifies, first and foremost, the translation of pillars of contemporary philosophy into Spanish. They forget, however, the myriad original contributions Gaos has made to Hispanic philosophy, merely for the unjust reason that he made them during his exile in Mexico, where the philosopher lived from until the time of his death. This anthology, dedicated to one of his most beloved disciples—Alejandro Rossi—is an attempt to offer a sample of the themes that filled José Gaos’s intellectual life: from his affectionate, but distant relationship with Ortega y Gasset, to his more personal philosophical activities—for example, the “philosophy of philosophy,”— touching on his study of the history of ideas, something he developed with admirable lucidity. In turn, the present publication hopes to contribute to ensuring José Gaos’ stature within Hispanic philosophy.
José Gaos (-) was José Ortega y Gasset’s disciple. In , when the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was named Dean of the University of Madrid and in , General Commissioner of Spain at the Paris World Fair. In , he emigrated to Mexico. From the time of his arrival, he dedicated himself to teaching philosophy—first at the House of Spain, later at the College of Mexico, and finally, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (unam). José Gaos translated works and wrote texts. fce has published Introducción a el ser y el tiempo de Martin Heidegger; Historia de nuestra idea del mundo; % (selected essays and prose); Confesiones profesionales; Razón y realidad en la literatura. • A compilation of the philosopher’s most representative texts, selected by Alejandro Rossi • A fundamental textbook for the Humanities
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Por mano propia. Estudio sobre las prácticas suicidas
PHILOSOPHY ART
Desde la perplejidad. Ensayos sobre la ética, la razón y el diálogo
Pensar sin certezas. Montaigne y el arte de conversar
[From Perplexity: Essays on Ethics, Reason, and Dialogue]
[Thinking without Certainty: Montaigne and the Art of Conversation]
Javier Muguerza th ed, fce Spain, pp. × cm (. × in) Collection: Filosofía. Subject: Philosophy ISBN
Jesús Navarro Reyes st ed., fce Spain, pp. . × cm (. × . in) Collection: Filosofía. Subject: Philosophy ISBN
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ne might begin with the assumption that one function of philosophy is to safeguard rationality. But the uses of reason are multiple: logical reason, analytic reason, instrumental reason and, what matters most here, dialogic or communicative reason. Is it truly possible to reconstruct the process that led to the latter? Javier Muguerza thinks so. The ‘death of God’ or, less definitively, the decline of religion and its replacement by philosophy, has led philosophy to postulate ‘a transcendental subject’ as a secularized substitute (Kant), a ‘transcendental reason’ (Apel) and finally a quasi-transcendentality of the human species in the utopia of an ‘ideal communication’ (Habermas). This book is in fact a unique ‘guide for the perplexed,’ particularly because of its paradoxical goal. In contrast with the usual meaning of a ‘guide,’ it does not aim to help the reader to find the way; rather it invites the reader to choose perplexity and achieve the ‘gift of perplexity’ of Socrates and Wittgenstein.
Javier Muguerza is a professor of ethics at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Spain. He is the author, among other works, of La razón sin esperanza (), La alternativa del disenso () and Ética, disenso y derechos humanos (). He has headed the academic committee of the Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Filosofía [Latin American Encyclopedia of Philosophy] since it was established, and was cofounder and first director of the Instituto de Filosofía of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, of whose journal Isegoría he is a coeditor.
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ontaigne’s essays are often considered to contain the origin of modern subjectivism: unable to overcome his skeptical crisis, he began philosophy’s shift towards the interiority of the self, testing himself in his writing and turning in upon himself. Nevertheless it should not be forgotten that his essays lacked a firm—or fallacious—support for certainty. For this reason, Montaigne does not offer us a set of simple rules for a lone person to follow in self-sufficient exercise of his reason. Rather, conscious that uncertainty can never be dispelled, he concentrates on the exercise of conversation, assuming the relationship and dealings with the other to be constituent elements of his own identity. In this book, Jesús Navarro critically reviews the existing literature of this cornerstone of modernity. He begins with the problem of action, describing his dilemma between the temptation to withdraw and the need for political action. He then focuses on language and textuality as means to the development of a full subjectivity that is capable of recognizing itself only through relationships of exchange established with the other. Lastly, he studies the gnoseological and ontological implications of this art of conversing with which Montaigne tried to find a skeptical exit from the Platonic cave.
Jesús Navarro Reyes is a professor of philosophy at the Universidad de Sevilla. He has been a visiting researcher at the Sorbonne and the Universities of Chicago and Berkeley. He has published articles in academic journals and is the author of La extrañeza de sí mismo ().
F O N DO DE C ULTURA ECO N Ó MI C A
México y España. ¿Historias económicas paralelas?
[Bioethics: New Reflections on Old Debates] Arleen Salles and Florencia Luna st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Filosofía. Subject: Bioethics ISBN 9789505577521
[Mexico and Spain: Parallel Economic Histories?] Rafael Dobado, Aurora Gómez Galvarriato and Graciela Márquez (comps.) st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Lecturas del Trimestre Económico. Subjects: Economic history, Mexico, Spain ISBN 9789681684143
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his work offers the non-specialized reader an opportunity to assess the fundamental issues of bioethics, while at the same time presenting specialists with an analysis of main points in the current debate from a Latin American perspective. Key subjects are addressed—such as voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, assisted reproduction and the uses of cloning—presenting alternative perspectives. The role of the State and the right to universal health care also feature prominently in this book.
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exico and Spain constitute similar cases in many ways. In the words of Coatsworth, Mexico is a country where the geography conspires against the economy. This affirmation highlights the fact that there are natural obstacles to aspects as vital to economic modernization as transportation, or articulation of the domestic market. Mexico and Spain also share a proximity to great economies with high absolute and relative development: the United States and Western Europe, respectively. It’s no coincidence that Spain belongs to the European Union (previously known as the European Economic Community), and Mexico, to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Florencia Luna completed her Master’s at Columbia University and received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires. She’s an independent researcher on the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (conicet) and Coordinator of the Bioethics Division of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (flacso). She has acted as President of the International Bioethics Association. She’s also received a Guggenheim Grant. Her publications include: Ensayos de bioética: reflexiones desde el Sur () and Bioethics and Vulnerability: A Latin American View ().
Aurora Gómez Galvarriato received her PhD in History from Harvard University. Her lines of research include labor economy, economic growth and financial system history. She is currently a member of the National System of Researchers.
Arleen L. F. Salles received her PhD in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently a Philosophy Professor at St. John’s University in New York. She has published various essays and articles in specialized reviews.
Graciela Márquez received her PhD in history from Harvard University. She is a researcher at The College of Mexico and a specialist in the economic history of the th and th century, as well as the commercial and financial history of Mexico and Latin America.
A rigorous approach to a distressing issue of contemporary society
Rafael Dobado completed his degree and doctorate in Economic Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he’s been a full professor since . He has also worked as an economist with Spain’s Bank of the Exterior. • An invaluable compendium of economic history comparing Mexico to Spain
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Bioética: nuevas reflexiones sobre debates clásicos
POLITICS
Debates y combates: por un nuevo horizonte de la política
La vida constitucional de México, vols. i y ii
[Debates and Combats: Towards a New Political Horizon]
[Constitutional Life in Mexico, vols. i and ii]
Ernesto Laclau
Fernando Serrano Migallón
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st ed., Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Política y Derecho. Subject: Constitutionalism ISBN 9789681682828 vol. I) 9789681682811 series)
ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Sociología. Subject: Political theory ISBN 9789505577538
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rnesto Laclau offers four intense intellectual debates, taking on crucial current issues within the left-wing political sphere. He performs a detailed critique of works by philosophers like Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri. As stated in his introduction: “Behind each of the political interventions of this volume lies a unique project: to retake the political initiative […] by making politics feasible once again.”
Ernesto Laclau (Buenos Aires, ) studied history at the University of Buenos Aires, later earning his PhD at the University of Essex. He has been a professor of that University since and, as of , a Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University, as well as honorary Director of the Center of Studies of Discourse of Sociopolitical Identities at San Martín University in Argentina. He has been invited as a guest professor by the universities of Toronto, Chicago, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires, among others. Fondo de Cultura Económica has also published: Misticismo, retórica y política (), Contingencia, hegemonía, universalidad. Diálogos contemporáneos en la izquierda (with Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek, ), Hegemonía y estrategia socialista. Hacia una radicalización de la democracia (with Chantal Mouffe, ) and La razón populista ().
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country’s constitutional life is the manifestation of one of the facets of its social and political history. Many studies have been published regarding Mexico’s judicial and political history, but for some reason, these two visions have never before been joined together in order to enrich our analysis and reflection of how the States of Mexico were formed. This book, fortunately, has filled in the gap. In this first installment, we find a rigorous analysis of the political constitutions of Bayona and Cádiz, among other documents drafted in Mexico that have, in turn, established its foundations.
Fernando Serrano Migallón is one of Mexico’s most important jurists, educated in law, economy, and history; a national researcher, a research professor at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, A.C. (cide), and a professor at the College of Mexico, National Defense College, and the Law faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (unam). fce has published, Con certera visión: Isidro Fabela y su tiempo; “…Duras las tierras ajenas…”; Un asilo, tres exilios; and Isidro Fabela y la diplomacia mexicana. • A fascinating analysis of Mexico’s early political constitutions; a novel approach to the history of the consolidation of Mexico as a Nation • Awarded the caniem Prize for Editorial Art in 2007
• The author is a fundamental figure in current post-Marxist political thought • This work offers needed answers to the theoretical debates of contemporary political philosophy
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[ Medicinal Herbs]
[Towards a Millennium without Hunger, with Education, Health, and Justice]
Juan Francisco Jaramillo Illustrated by Carlos Mario Orozco st ed., Ediciones Martínez Roca, Colombia, nd ed., fce Colombia, pp. . × cm ( × in) Collection: Ciencia y Tecnología. Subject: Chinese medicine ISBN
Mariano García Viveros and Karina Salas Mercado (eds.) st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × . in) Collection: Biblioteca de la Salud. Subject: Social welfare ISBN 9789681681944
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his work is the product of the th symposium of the Erich Fromm-Salvador Zubirán International Pro-Human Values Society. Its purpose is to share the approaches, diagnostics, and proposals made during this meeting as well as promoting the exchange of ideas; contribute to facilitating access to more suitable, adequate nourishment; increasing environmental responsibility; multiplying the population’s opportunities to improve their labor and living standards; and creating more jobs with higher salaries, while providing the health services vital to the population’s development.
Mariano García Viveros was head of the Department of Health Education of the National Institute of Medical and Nutrition Sciences “Salvador Zubirán” and Secretary of the Erich Fromm-Salvador Zubirán International Pro-Human Values Society. He passed away in . • Numerous specialists from diverse backgrounds take on the economic, environmental, demographic, legal, education, and health issues that must be addressed in order to attain the level of well-being our societies deserve • A multidisciplinary vision of both the current state of society and the efforts that must take place in order to attain elemental goals of welfare and justice
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his book clearly and accurately describes the medical properties of common herbs classified by their use in traditional Chinese medicine. Each plant is illustrated by an ink drawing in eighteenth-century style. The common name, pharmaceutical name and botanical name are given, and the description identifies the part of the plant employed for medicinal use. The nature of each herb is described; its flavor, temperature and moisture characteristics, its chemical components and its degree of toxicity. The effects of the plant on the human body are summarized and classified. The dose, contraindications, warnings and proper preparation are given. The book also includes a glossary of medical terms and two indexes, one organized by organs and syndromes of traditional Chinese medicine, the other an alphabetical index of disorders and the effects of the plants.
Juan Francisco Jaramillo is a Colombian physician who has been practicing Chinese traditional medicine for over thirty years. He wrote the Spanish versions of the China Academy of Traditional Medicine’s Fundamentos de medicina tradicional china and Compendio de acupuntura china. He edited the first T’ai chi chu’an manual in Spanish and also researches indigenous medicine and the use of native medicinal plants. • hierbas medicinales is a manual of herbal treatments as easy to use for the general public as it is for experts • The author is a recognized expert in traditional Chinese medicine • The text is complemented by attractive, informative illustrations
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hierbas medicinales
Hacia un milenio sin hambre con educación, salud y justicia
SOCIOLOGY
Crítica cultural entre política y poética
Las cuestiones
[Cultural Criticism between Politics and Poetics]
[The Issues]
Leonor Arfuch
st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Sociología. Subject: Cultural sociology ISBN 9789505577286
Nicolás Casullo
st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Sociología. Subjects: Constitutionalism, Mass media communications, Culture ISBN 9789505577385
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arting from the dilemmas of imagery—truly a contemporary obsession—Leonor Arfuch tackles subjects like art, autobiography, juvenile crime, the media, women’s writing, the war in Iraq, and the Shoa. Arfuch concerns herself with linkages between memory and images while exercising political criticism. She is conversant in different disciplines: philosophy, semiotics, speech theory, literary criticism, sociology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis.
Leonor Arfuch (Buenos Aires, ) holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires, where she teaches and does research. She has given courses for the Doctorate Program of the Department of Educational Research at the Center for Advanced Research and Studies (cinvestav) in Mexico, and she’s been a guest professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (unam), the Veracruz Pedagogical University, the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Essex University, and the British Academy. She’s published, among other works, La interioridad pública (), La entrevista, una invención dialógica (), Crímenes y pecados. De los jóvenes en la crónica policial (). Fondo de Cultura Económica has published El espacio biográfico (). Arfuch received a Guggenheim grant in .
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as cuestiones links problems from a critical standpoint in which cultural theory, philosophy, and aesthetic gaze intersect with non-conformist political reasoning. Along the way, Latin American populism is addressed and the s in Argentina examined from the viewpoint of the political and aesthetic avant-garde. Casullo also questions the role of Argentinean intellectual thought from the th century to the present, including the role played by political and ideological rights in current issues. A masterful, polemic essay that touches on the main controversies of contemporary social change, debating between anarchic alternatives and statist centralism.
Nicolás Casullo (Buenos Aires, ) is a professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Quilmes. He’s Director of the Master’s Program in Communications and Culture at the University of Buenos Aires, and also of the review Pensamiento de los confines. His published works include: Comunicación, la democracia difícil (); El debate modernidad-posmodernidad (); Viena del : la remoción de lo moderno (); Itinerarios de la modernidad (); París : las escrituras y el olvido (); Modernidad y cultura crítica (); Pensar entre épocas (); Sobre la marcha ().
• This book brilliantly addresses contemporary problems that are seldom discussed from a Latin American perspective
• Outstanding methodological rigor, high theoretical standards and a variety of cultural dimensions
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El sentido de las misiones suicidas
[The Meaning of Suicide Missions]
[Genocide as Social Practice. Between Nazism and the Argentinean Experience]
Diego Gambetta (ed.) st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Sociología. Subject: Suicide Attacks
Daniel Feierstein st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Sociología. Subject: Constitutionalism, Genocide, Nazism, Holocaust ISBN 9789505577149
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aniel Feierstein proposes an exhaustive investigation of the social phenomenon of genocide, seeking to fine-tune definitions parting from a profound historical analysis that proceeds to examine the function of modern genocidal social practices. In this analysis, he articulates the experience of Nazi genocide and the Argentinean experience during its last military dictatorship as concrete examples of the bizarre technologies of power. This route addresses the central nature of moral responsibility to others as the only viable way to “exile genocide as a possibility for ‘social reorganization.’ ”
Daniel Feierstein is a sociologist and chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Buenos Aires University. He’s Director of the Master’s Program in Cultural Diversity of the National February Third University. He’s an independent expert in the National Plan against Discrimination. His published works include Seis estudios sobre genocidio, Hasta que la muerte nos separe; Poder y prácticas sociales genocidas en América Latina; and Genocidio. La administración de la muerte en la modernidad.
rom New York to Baghdad, from Sri Lanka to Israel, few would dispute that suicide attacks have become a horrific element of today’s growing conflicts. Since , approximately organizations around the world have carried out over suicide missions. In this book, Peter Hill, Luca Ricolfi, Michael Biggs, and other recognized authors collaborate to study these extraordinary acts and offer answers to these questions: are these actions the product of aggressive, radical, irrational religious fanaticism, or is there a logic behind them? Are the motivations religious, or has Islam provided them with a language they can use to express political causes? How are the perpetrators so lucidly effective in situations of certain death? Do these attacks share a common cause?
Diego Gambetta is a sociologist with a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Cambridge. He’s a professor of Nuffield College at Oxford University. His main areas of research are centered on analytical sociology, signal theory and its applications, trust and mimetism, and organized crime –especially with regards to the Italian Mafia. His published works include Trust: Making and breaking cooperative relations and La mafia siciliana. El negocio de la protección privada (fce, ), as well as numerous articles in specialized reviews.
• A revealing collection of essays exploring the nature of suicide missions
• Feierstein introduces a novel argumentative strategy parting from the work of Michel Foucault and Zygmunt Bauman to address genocidal practices during the second half of the 20th century • His conclusions are of vital importance in order to gain an understanding of the current status of the societies questioned in these pages
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El genocidio como práctica social. Entre el nazismo y la experiencia argentina
SOCIOLOGY
Verdades innombrables. El reto de las comisiones de la verdad
La intimidad como espectáculo
[Intimacy as Spectacle]
[Unnameable Truths. The Challenge of Truth Commissions]
Paula Sibilia st ed., fce Argentina, pp. × cm (. × . in) Collection: Sociología. Subject: Mass media, Intimacy ISBN 9789505577545
Priscilla Hayner st ed., fce Mexico, pp. . × cm (. × in) Collection: Sociología. Subject: Truth Commissions ISBN 9789681683429 (paperback) 9789681683412 (hardcover)
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his book entails a minute sociological analysis of the labors undertaken by several truth commissions, with particular emphasis on the cases of South Africa, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. The author manifests the great need among these nations to clarify a past filled with horror and abuse, especially whenever inflicted by authoritarian regimes upon fledgling democracies. Specific issues are weighed, such as the moral value of damage repairs to victims through dissemination of the truth, in light of the virtual impossibility of criminal trials in many cases.
Priscilla Hayner is an expert on truth commissions around the world. She has written numerous texts that explore the theme of an official search for the truth following many political transitions. She has collaborated with the un and the Ford Foundation, as well as governments on several occasions; she has also acted as a consultant on human rightsrelated issues. She is co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice. • Invaluable testimony on how truth commissions have fulfilled the difficult task of bringing human rights violations to light • Introduction by Patricio Aylwin (a former President of Chile) • An initiative for truth and justice that promotes building societies with new foundations, societies that are founded on a political culture of respect for fundamental rights, rather than the law of might makes right
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aula Sibilia provides a timely analysis of exhibitionism among the solitary, a key factor in contemporary displays of intimacy. She focuses on how the self is constructed among those who choose to abandon anonymity by launching themselves into the public arena through blogs, photologs, webcams, and sites like YouTube and FaceBook. Sibilia’s reflection touches on similar manifestations from the past decade, such as reality shows and talk shows on television, and the boom in biographical movies and books. The author sustains that these phenomena foreshadow an actual mutation of subjectivities, a cultural transition “in ways of being, and of being in the world.”
Paula Sibilia (Buenos Aires, ), studied Communication and Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, where she was also a professor and researcher. She holds a Master’s Degree in Communication from the Fluminense Federal University at Rio de Janeiro, a PhD in Public Health from Rio de Janeiro State University, and another in Communications and Culture from Rio de Janeiro Federal University. Fondo de Cultura Económica has also published El hombre postorgánico. Cuerpo, subjetividad y tecnologías digitales (). • Sibilia rigorously analyzes how subjectivity is constructed today • Her reflections are essential to gaining an understanding of tomorrow’s world
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Tener un patito es útil
[Having a Duck is Handy] Written and illustrated by Isol st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × . in) Picture book ISBN 9789681672850
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child finds a duck useful as a swinging chair, as a hat, and as a nose. A duck finds a child useful for back rubs, as a watching tower, and for waxing its beak. This accordion fold book in two colors tells two versions of the same story, depending on which side it is being read.
Isol (b. Buenos Aires, ) studied Fine Arts and Mixed Arts. She has worked in the fields of comic, poetry and visual arts. At this moment, she is entirely devoted to media and book illustration (covering from publishing firms, to magazines and newspapers). She has published her work as author and illustrator in Spain, Mexico, France and Argentina with great success. She was honored with a Golden Apple at the bib, and her books are in the White Ravens List with a Special Mention (, , and ).
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AWARDS • Selected for 50 Books / 50 Covers, aiga, NY • Finalist at the Hans Christian Andersen Award • Nomineé for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Sweden) • Special Mention in The White Ravens List for El cuento de Navidad by Auggie Wren (by Paul Auster, Sudamericana, ) • Golden Apple Prize in the Bienal of Illustration of Bratislava , Slovakia, for the illustrations of the book Tic Tac (by Jorge Luján, Alfaguara, ) • The White Ravens List for El globo (FCE publishers, ) • Illustration Award in the rd Press Design International Contest (Porto Alegre, Brazil, ) • Special Mention in the ‘A la Orilla del Viento’ Award, (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico)
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¿Por qué se esconden?
Why Are You Hiding? Text: María Emilia Beyer Ruiz Illustrated by: Francesca Massai st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × in) Collection: Ojitos Pajaritos Picture book ISBN 9789681685294
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girl who loves to play hide-and-seek and to watch everything around her, finds out that in nature not everything is what it seems. This is a book thought especially for preschool children, about the different kinds of mimesis. Through its simple story, children learn to identify the two principal kinds of mimesis —predation and defense— and, at the same time, following the clues, they will learn which animals are hidden in each page. A recreational book fit for children to learn to interpret images and to arouse their interest in nature.
María Emilia Beyer is a biologist; for five years she has been dedicated to the popularization of science through various means, such as science museums, conferences, essays published in specialized magazines, etc. She constantly collaborates in the popular science magazine ¿Cómo ves? and in the bulletin El muégano divulgador. She currently works as an academic coordinator for the popularization of science in the unam. Francesca Massai is an Italian illustrator. This is her first picture book. Age: 3 +
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¿Quién pasó por aquí?
[Who’s been here?] Text: Martha Duhne Illustrated by: Manuel Monroy st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × in) Picture book ISBN 9681680618
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n entertaining way to learn about animals from their tracks, with surprises hidden under the flaps and an appealing story for each animal. Ojitos Pajaritos [Birdie Eyes] is a series of picture books that introduce children to the pleasure of discovery. The authors are science writers, and the books are aimed at children aged three to five who are about to discover the world around them.
Martha Duhne has been a producer and science writer for television, radio and magazines for more than years. She is the coauthor of Animales asombrosos. She is the information manager of ¿Cómo ves?, a science magazine for young people published by the University of Mexico. The magazine won the - Latin American Award for Science and Technology Writing. Manuel Monroy studied graphic communication design. In addition to teaching, he designs posters and other art projects. He has been an illustrator since , and has exhibited in solo and joint exhibitions. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Quórom Award and the Noma Concours Award in Japan. He has illustrated several fce books, including Hombre de mar, the Yoyo series, Chanyelín, and Rabieta Trebejos. Age: 3 +
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¿Para qué usas la lengua?
[What is your Tongue for?] Text: María del Carmen Sánchez Mora Illustrated by: Jonathan Farr st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm (approx. × in) Picture book ISBN 9789681683665
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ongues are good for much more than we might imagine. Animals use them as detectors or weapons; to hunt, taste, smell or talk. In this book, the interplay between words and pictures leads very young readers to discover how animal tongues have many different shapes and uses. They will even discover more about their own tongues!
María del Carmen Sánchez Mora graduated from the University of Mexico in Biology, and earned a master’s degree in ecology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in science from the University of Mexico. She began writing about science fifteen years ago at the University Science Communication Center. She has contributed to several programs at Universum, the University of Mexico science museum. Her personal interests include teaching Biology and scientific illustration. She is a member of the eridob (European Researchers in Didactics of Biology). Jonathan Farr was born in Oxford in . He studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His work has been exhibited in Mexico and Europe. He paints murals and creates stained glass windows for churches, and has illustrated books for various publishers. He is also the illustrator of the fce books Ripios y adivinanzas del mar and Las aventuras de Max y su ojo submarino. Age: 3 +
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Ramona la mona
[Nicole the Mole] Written and illustrated by Aitana Carrasco st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. x cm (. x in) Picture book ISBN 968168026X
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runo lives with his father, mother, grandparents, and five goldfish. Upon the arrival of Fola, a red cat, the child experiences the loss of his fish and his grandfather. Bruno is not willing to accept Mona, his brand new sister… until one day things change for good.
Aitana Carrasco was born in Valencia. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts and is a member of the Valencian Association of Professional Illustrators (apiv). In Carrasco was presented a prize at the XI ‘El Gos i la Tortuga’ Award of Editorial 3I 4. In - the I.B. ‘A.J. Cavanilles’ awarded her at several artistic and literary contests (in the fields of etching, poetry, and fiction). In Carrasco was a finalist in the annual contest of Poetry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. • A story about loss, time and changes, jealousy, the lies of adults, the discovery of the world and the surprises that life keeps for a kid • A beautiful book about love and fraternity, and the importance of growing up Winner of the IX Picture Book Award A la Orilla del Viento (Fondo de Cultura Económica, ) Age: 4 + Catalan edition available
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El globo
Secreto de familia
[The Balloon]
[Family Secret]
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he girl in this tale has a serious problem: one morning she wakes up earlier than usual and finds out a horrible secret hidden by her mother. This secret makes her, as well as her family, different from everybody else.
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amila’s mother yells so much that she looks like a balloon. So Camila wishes she would actually turn into one. And one day, her wish comes true. Camila begins to see her mother in a new way. This charming story shows fantasies taking flight, and explores the relationships between parents and children.
AWARDS • Finalist at the Hans Christian Andersen Award • Nomineé for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Sweden) • Special Mention in The White Ravens List for El cuento de Navidad by Auggie Wren (by Paul Auster, Sudamericana, ) • Golden Apple Prize in the Bienal of Illustration of Bratislava , Slovakia, for the illustrations of the book Tic Tac (by Jorge Luján, Alfaguara, ) • The White Ravens List for El globo (FCE publishers, ) • Illustration Award in the rd Press Design International Contest (Porto Alegre, Brazil, ) • Special Mention in the ‘A la Orilla del Viento’ Award, (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico) Age: 5 +
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Libro Caracol
[A Dog’s Life]
[Snail Book]
Written and illustrated by Isol
Written and illustrated by Javier Sáez Castán st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × in) Picture book ISBN 9789681683689
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n this book, children can learn about shapes through pictures and games. The Victorian-style drawings are exquisitely composed within blocks, which are arranged in an overall design.
Javier Sáez Castán studied fine arts at the University of Valencia. He has been an illustrator for more than fifteen years, and his books have won awards in several countries. He has also been a teacher, and directed educational and cultural workshops. He is the illustrator of El animalario universal by Miguel Murrugarren, a fce book which won the Ninth International Children’s and Young People’s Picture Book Award in .
st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Picture book ISBN 9681654234
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boy and his dog spend too much time together; it is difficult to pry them apart. This book paints the portrait of one of the best, most precious relationships in the world—that of a boy and his dog. A story of friendship, loyalty and good times. Isol’s humor and unique graphic style combine to make a delightful picture book for beginning readers.
AWARDS • The White Ravens List for El globo (FCE publishers, ) • Illustration Award in the rd Press Design International Contest (Porto Alegre, Brazil, ) • Special Mention in the ‘A la Orilla del Viento’ Award, (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico) • Vida de perros was a finalist in the Sixth A la Orilla del Viento (fce) Picture Book Competition Age: 4 + Norwegian rights sold
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Colores con brisa
[Colors on the Breeze] Text: Carlos Pellicer Illustrated by: Carlos Pellicer López st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Picture book ISBN 9681678699
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special book that introduces children to the world of poetry and pictures; a single poem is illustrated per double page spread. Carlos Pellicer López’s shapes and colours are a visual recreation of the poetic tone of the verses in chromatic planes and scenes that give the words a new meaning.
Carlos Pellicer was born in Villahermosa in the state of Tabasco in and died in Mexico City in . He was a poet who wrote for the journals Falange, Ulises and Contemporáneos. He was also a professor of modern poetry at the University of Mexico and director of the Department of Literature of the Fine Arts Institute. He received the Mexican National Award for Literature in . Carlos Pellicer López is a writer and artist. His work has appeared in anthologies published in usa. His picture book Julieta y su caja de colores, also published by fce, received several awards, among them the Promexa Award, the Antoniorrobles Award, a Plaque in the Bratislava Biennial of Illustrations and the Ezra Jack Keats Bronze Medallion in . His picture book Juan y sus zapatos also received the Promexa Award.
Selected for The White Ravens Age: 5 +
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Boda en Chimalistac
[Wedding in Chimalistac] Text: Elena Poniatowska Illustrations: Osvaldo Hernández st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Picture book ISBN 9789681685638
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he gardens of Chimalistac, a neighborhood in the southern part of Mexico City, witness the love between a Lime tree and a Jacaranda tree. Unfortunately, the Jacaranda is in love with the Beech, and Lime will have to overcome his dismay and find another way to conquer his loved one before he can accompany her up the aisle to the altar. This story, narrated in a Custombrist style, brings the best of Elena Poniatowska’s prose while its illustrations convey the purest styles of Mexican folklore.
Elena Poniatowska was born in Paris in . During World War II, she fled with her mother to Mexico. A journalist, chronicler, and author of fiction, she’s one of the most prestigious writers in Mexico. The first woman to have received the National Journalism Prize (), her works include Hasta no verte Jesús mío (Mazatlán Literature Prize) and La noche de Tlatelolco (Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, rejected by the author in protest against Luis Echeverría, then President of Mexico). fce has published her Obras reunidas I, Narrativa breve, which includes the stories De noche vienes and Tlapalería, and the novellas Lilus Kikus and Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela; as well as Obras reunidas II. Novelas, which includes Hasta no verte Jesús mío, “La Flor” de Lis and Paseo de la Reforma. Osvaldo Hernández was born in 1969 in Mexico City. He studied at La Esmeralda from 1988 to 1993, and he’s participated in 50 collective exhibitions in Mexico, Finland, Spain, the United States, and France. He received an award during the First Biennial of Painting and Poetry organized by the Autonomous University of Mexico (uam) in 1993. He’s had six individual exhibitions. He received the Young Creators scholarship from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in 1994. Ages: +
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Camino a casa
[On the Way Home] Text: Jairo Buitrago Illustrations: Rafael Yockteng st ed., fce Mexico, pp. 23 × 23 cm (9 × 9 in) Picture book ISBN 9786071600073
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picture book in which fantasy cloaks nostalgia in order to address—with humor, imagination, and tenderness—a difficult subject: absence. At first glance, this is a book in which a little girl approaches an imaginary friend so that he’ll accompany her walking home from school each day. However, a more careful reading shows what this girl must face every day: poverty, taking care of her little brother, household chores, and absence —her imaginary lion, a symbol of strength and protection, helps her deal with this. The surprise ending gives the story a plot twist, making it richer, and more emotional. The wealth of interwoven images displays the Colombian social environment the girl has to cope with while the text, simple and tender, reveals the protagonist’s inner world.
Jairo Buitrago has worked as a writer, researcher, and editorial assistant. He’s published two books for children and many more about cinema, his area of specialization. Rafael Yockteng won the ibby Utopia Award, geared towards Latin American illustrators of children’s books, in . Since then, he has illustrated several books for children in Colombia and abroad. • “Every line works perfectly, saying what it has to say without undue complication, easily capturing the atmosphere of the situation” (Satoshi Kitamura) • “A charming story with a surprising, emotional ending… I believe that the simplicity in the illustration style complements the story fairly well” (Anthony Browne) Winner of the XI ‘A la Orilla del Viento’ Illustrated Picture Book Award (fce) Ages: +
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Tigres de la otra noche
[Tigers of the Other Night] Text: María García Esperón Illustrated by: Alejandro Magallanes
st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × . in) Picture book ISBN 9681682726
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book about the power of imagination and play; about growing and discovering the world, with its dangers and its potential. The poems make multiple references to the tiger as an archetype, and to other authors including Kipling, Borges, Verne and Salgari. María García Esperón is a teacher, science journalist and writer. She has written scripts for the Mexican Radio Institute, articles on painting, dance, music, theater and books for the newspaper El Heraldo de México, and coauthored articles for the periodicals El Perico Consentido and La Ciencia Recreativa. She recently won the Norma-Fundalectura Award for Children’s and Young Adult Books. Alejandro Magallanes studied graphic design at the enap (University of Mexico School of Art). He has illustrated children’s books for Mexican and foreign publishers, and has designed award-winning posters. He has been a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale since . Winner of the Hispanic Children’s Poetry Award
Age: 6 +
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La peor señora del mundo
La Muerte pies ligeros
[The Meanest Woman in the World]
[Light-Footed Death] Text: Natalia Toledo Illustrated by: Francisco Toledo
Text: Francisco Hinojosa Illustrated by: Rafael Barajas, El Fisgón
st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. x cm (. x . in) Picture Book ISBN 9681676718
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n the north of Turambul lives the meanest lady in the world. She punishes her children when they misbehave, but also when they behave. Everybody in the neighborhood runs away from her. But one day the villagers decide to do something to put an end to her atrocities. A humorous, acid, and cathartic tale on the limits of human behavior and the strength of a community to resist an attempt of an individual to impose herself upon them. Francisco Hinojosa (Mexico City, ) studied literature, and then started writing poetry, short stories, and children’s books. In he won the ibby Award for La vieja que comía gente. Hinojosa is the most outstanding author of children’s books in Mexico. Rafael Barajas, El Fisgón is a curator, muralist, painter, researcher, writer, and journalist. He is also one of the bestknown political caricaturists in Mexico.
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old as a legend, Light-footed Death gives a humorous explanation of how Death came to Earth. The idea for this book came from some of Francisco Toledo’s engravings of Death jumping rope with different animals, all from the region of Tehuantepec, where the artist and his daughter were born. The story is based on ancient cultural heritage, and reinvents oral tradition. The magnificent images of Francisco Toledo recreate the atmosphere of popular stories and legends in a playful fashion and turn the book into a valuable collectible for all those interested in the painter’s work.
Natalia Toledo was born in Juchitán, Oaxaca in . She is a bilingual poet (Zapotec-Spanish). Some of her published titles are: Olivo negro; Flor de pantano; Mujeres de sol, mujeres de oro, and Paraíso de fisuras. Francisco Toledo was born in Juchitán, Oaxaca in . Since his work has been exhibited in different museums in México, United States, South America, and Europe. Recently he was awarded Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Price) for his Commitment and Art for the protection and preservation of the natural and cultural environment in Oaxaca.
Age: 6 + Age: 7 + English rights sold
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Cuento del Conejo y el Coyote
[The Tale of the Rabbit and the Coyote] Text: Natalia Toledo Illustrations: Francisco Toledo st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × . in) Picture book ISBN 9789681676681
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classic story from Mexican oral tradition that tells why the coyote always howls at the Moon, retold through the live language of a Zapotec writer. Rabbit steals chili peppers from a garden, and the farmer sets a trap to catch him. About to be stewed, Rabbit sees Coyote who, while trying to help him, ends up taking his place. Thus begins a chain of adventures in which the clever rabbit mocks Coyote time and time again. Natalia Toledo, currently one of the most active and important writers in the Mexican literary landscape, adapted this traditional Zapotec story by translating it into Spanish. The visual quality makes this book not only a great literary work, but also a collectible for all those who love Mexican visual arts. Natalia Toledo was born in Juchitán, Oaxaca, in . She is a bilingual poet (Zapotec-Spanish). She studied at the General Society of Mexican Writers School (sogem). She’s participated in many literary encounters, including the First Encounter of Writers in Indigenous Languages MexicoCentral America, held by unesco, and the Continental Encounter of Writers in Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean Writers in Quintana Roo. She currently presides over the Patronage of the Juchitán House of Culture. Francisco Toledo, one of the most important Mexican painters, is from Oaxaca (). In , he began his studies at the Free Engraving Workshop of the National Institute of Fine Artes (inba) School of Artisanry and Design in Mexico City. His work has been presented since in museums in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and Central and South America. In , he donated a collection of graphic work in order to found the Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca. He lives alternately in Oaxaca and Mexico City.
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Animalario universal del profesor Revillod Almanaque ilustrado de la fauna mundial
[Universal Zoology] Text: Miguel Murugarren Illustrated by: Javier Sáez st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. x cm (. x . in) Picture Book ISBN 9681670485
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rofessor Revillod has collected many pictures of extremely exotic animals during his numerous trips around the world. Come and see over of his finest specimens, in a stylishly designed and innovative picture book.
Miguel Murugarren was born in Spain. He studied philosophy and literature. He is interested in advertising, graphic design and music. Javier Sáez was born in Spain. He studied Fine Arts. He illustrates and writes his own books, like Picopelosplumas and Los tres erizos, and works for many publishing houses.
Winner of the Ninth International Children’s and Young People’s Picture Book Award in French and German rights sold One of the top best-sellers in our catalogue
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Kassunguilà
[Kassunguilà] Written and illustrated by Monique Zepeda st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × in) Picture book ISBN 9789681686208
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assunguilà is a small fish who lives at the bottom of the ocean, sheltered by a parasol, until one day a terrible storm tears him away from his peaceful existence and a journey begins to recover his inner peace and confidence. Here Zepeda has given us a work of art, with illustrations created from wine boxes, folk art stamps, tin figures, bells, and dozens of other traditional Mexican objects. Kassunguilà is a metaphor on life and growing up, with all the surprises and difficulties involved.
Monique Zepeda was born in Mexico City. She studied pedagogy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is a psychologist from the Sorbonne in Paris, and studied for her Master’s in childhood clinical psychology at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. She is the author of publications for teachers such as Escuela viva and Aprendiendo juntos. She is also the author of Marita no sabe dibujar and El cuaderno de Pancho. Age: 6 +
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Las aventuras de Max y su ojo submarino
[The Adventures of Max and his Underwater Eye] Text: Luigi Amara Illustrated by: Jonathan Farr st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm ( × . in) Picture book ISBN 9789681684501
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fter Max loses his right eye by accident, he finds out that he can see things from two different points of view at the same time. With his wandering eye, Max sees his school, the night, and his family in a new way. When his eye turns into a mutant pearl and describes what it sees from the ocean bed, we see the underwater world from a dazzling new perspective. These ingenious narrative poems express an instinctive sense of the fabulous and extraordinary humor as it demythologizes childhood.
Luigi Amara was born in Mexico City in . He is a poet and essayist, and has published several books of poems: El decir de la mancha, El cazador de grietas, Pasmo y Envés. He has also written a book of essays El peatón inmóvil. He was awarded the Elías Nandino Young Poets Award and has received grants from the Mexican Institute of Fine Arts and the National Foundation for Culture and the Arts (fonca). He is also a member of the National Artists Registry. Las aventuras de Max y su ojo submarino is his first book of poems for children. Jonathan Farr was born in Oxford in . He studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His work has been exhibited in Mexico and Europe. He paints murals and creates stained glass windows for churches, and has illustrated books for various publishers. He is the illustrator of ¿Para qué usas la lengua? and Ripios y adivinanzas del mar, also published by fce. Winner of the Hispanic Children’s Poetry Award Age: 6 +
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Hago de voz un cuerpo
[Voices from the Body] Anthology: María Baranda Illustrated by: Gabriel Pacheco st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm (approx. . × . in) Picture book ISBN 9789681684006
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his wonderful picture book is all about the body: hands, hair, nails, arms, the neck and more. Fifteen outstanding Mexican poets have used their words to create an enchanting series of metaphors of the body.
María Baranda is one of the most important poets of her generation. In she was awarded the Efraín Huerta National Poetry Award for her book Los memoriosos, the Villa de Madrid International Poetry Award in for Moradas imposibles and the Aguascalientes National Poetry Award for her book Dylan y las ballenas in . The fce published her books Atlántica y el rústico in its Mexican Literature series in , and Marte y las princesas voladoras in the A la Orilla del Viento series, in . Gabriel Pacheco was born in Mexico City in . He studied stage and set design at the National Institute of Fine Arts. He won the Tenth Città de Chioggia International Illustration Competition in Venice in , the first place in the Fourteenth Catalogue of Children’s and Young Peoples’ Books Illustrators and the International Picture Book Award. He has participated in exhibits in Mexico and Italy, and was included in the and catalogue of the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition. He has illustrated books for the leading Spanish and Italian publishing houses. Selected for 50 Books / 50 Covers, aiga, NY Selected for The White Ravens, Age: 7 +
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De cómo nació la memoria de El Bosque
[How the Memory of the Forest Became] Written and illustrated by Rocío Martínez st ed., Fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Picture book ISBN 9789681684518
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his is a story that remind us of classic tales. It tells the life story of a simple wooden table built by a woodcutter and how it moved from house to house and master to master. At the same time, the story speaks of the passage of time, love, life, death, gratitude, and human potential. The illustrations weave a rich tapestry of colors and shapes that are based on the text but at the same time add depth to the story with their movement and colors, with amusing details for readers to discover.
Rocío Martínez was born in Madrid. She studied fine arts, specializing in print-making. Since , she has focused on illustrating books for children and young people. Her work has been shown at numerous solo and group exhibitions, and she has earned the oepli-Ministry of Culture Illustration Award for the Children’s Book Poster of the Week, the Ministry of Culture Award for the best book published in , the Lazarillo Illustration Award for Miguel y las palampatas, and the Lazarillo Illustration Award for La gallina Catalina. Her books have been published in Spain and Latin America. Winner of the 2006 ‘A la Orilla del Viento’ Picture Book Award (Fondo de Cultura Económica) Age: 7 +
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El cuento del pingüino
[The Penguin’s Tale] Text: Antonio Ventura Illustration: Carmen Segovia st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Picture book ISBN 9786071600042
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his is a story within a story, a book that gives wings to the reader’s imagination.
Antonio Ventura was born in Madrid in , where he has taught at various public centers since . In , he was in charge of the Children’s Literature Division at the Anaya Department of Educational Orientation and Research. In , he became Director of the Sopa Book Collection. In July , he was appointed Director of Anaya Children’s and Youth Division. He’s also the founder of the children’s literature magazine Babar. His published works include: No todas las vacas son iguales, El Tren, El pájaro y la princesa (fce, ), Osos de Cuento, La mirada de Pablo and El mar de Darío. Carmen Segovia was born in Barcelona. She won the second place in the 4th International Contest of Illustrated Children’s Picture Books from the publishing house Anaya for Mitsu y Lala. She has published Caperucita roja, El viaje secreto, and Cuentos populares españoles. For the Fondo de Cultura Económica she illustrated the Spanish version of How the Bee Became, by Ted Hughes. Special Mention in the X ‘A la Orilla del Viento’ Picture Book Award (Fondo de Cultura Económica) Age: 8 +
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El libro salvaje
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[The Wild Book]
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uan, a twelve-year-old boy going through his parents’ divorce, has already planned his summer vacation. But his mother takes him to his Uncle Tito, a hopeless bibliophile who chews with an open mouth and adores spiders, because they protect him from the mosquitoes that distract him from his reading. There, hidden among thousands of volumes of his uncle’s eccentric library, Juan discovers El libro salvaje, a mutinous book that resists being opened, has never been read and, moreover, contains in its pages an exciting adventure in which Juan turns out to be the protagonist. This novel was written by one of Mexico’s most prestigious authors.
Text: Juan Villoro Illustration: Gabriel Martínez Meave st ed., fce México, pp. × cm ( × . in) Fiction ISBN 9789681685867
Juan Villoro is a writer, translator, journalist, and radio and television broadcaster, as well as one of Mexico’s most active and significant intellectuals in recent years. He has won many awards, including the Villaurrutia Prize (), the Herralde Prize for Novels () and, more recently, the French Embassy’s Antonin Artaud Prize. Gabriel Martínez Meave is a graphic and typographic designer, illustrator, calligrapher and author. He’s a member of the Association Typographique Internationale and the New York Type Directors’ Club. While he is mostly self-taught, he has taken several workshops with different typographic and poster artists, such as Cyrus Highsmith. In , he won first place in the Design Biennial and an Excellence in Type Design Diploma from the course Bukva: raz!, held in Moscow. Age: +
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El nombre del juego es Posada
[Posada is the Name of the Game] Text: Hugo Hiriart Illustrated by: Joel Rendón
st ed., fce Mexico, pp. × cm (. × . in) Non Fiction ISBN 9681673549
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a Catrina is a train ride into the world of José Guadalupe Posada, engraver and commentator on Mexican society in the Revolutionary Era. In this story, disaster and tragedy mingle with human characters like those Posada so often caricaturized; a doctor who turns his daughter’s suitor into a chicken, the handsome son who mistreats his parents, the woman who meets the Devil himself, and more. An ingenious and amusing tale that introduces young readers to the imagination, the wit and the engaging pictures by one of the greatest Mexican artists, whose portrayal of the spirit of Mexico transcended the country’s borders. The book includes information about the history of engraving in Mexico, the calaveritas and Posada’s games—the coyote, the charro smugglers. Hugo Hiriart is a writer and theater director. He studied philosophy at the University of Mexico and painting at ‘La Esmeralda’ (Mexican National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving). He won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award and is a member of the National Artists Registry. Joel Rendón was born in Izúcar de Matamoros in the state of Puebla in . He studied visual arts at the Mexican National School of Art. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, North Africa and the United States. In a series of short episodes called ‘Estampa al Minuto’ [Minute Print] produced by Mexico’s Channel , he teaches children about the principles and techniques of engraving.
Age: 8 +
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Fernanda y los mundos secretos
Andar entre libros
[Fernanda and the Secret Worlds]
[Among Books]
Ricardo Chávez Castañeda
Teresa Colomer
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his book proposes a method based on theory and practical experience for promoting literary education in the schools. The first section analyzes the function of the school, reading and books in the process of literary education. The second part proposes an active relationship between these three elements to promote reading, both collectively and individually, in the classroom.
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en stories about different ways to see, smell, feel and experience the world. One child cannot go out in the sun, another carries an ocean within, another lost a leg, another is haunted by a ghost, another sees only half of everything. This series of stories promote tolerance by helping the reader to understand others who are different.
Ricardo Chávez Castañeda was born in Mexico City in . He writes novels and short stories. He has won the Latin American Story Award, the Borges Short Story Award, the Mexican National Novel Award, the and Mexican National Young People’s Novel Awards, the Mexican National Children’s Story Award and the National Short Story Award. Along with other writers including Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Vicente Herrasti, he is part of the Crack Movement, a Mexican literary movement of the mid-s.
Teresa Colomer is a Spanish specialist in children’s and young adult’s literature. She has presented lectures in numerous countries on active promotion of reading comprehension. She is currently the director of the Children’s Literature Research Network in Catalonian universities and organizes a M. A. program in books and literature for children and young people together with the Banco del Libro in Venezuela and the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation.
• A tribute to Oliver Sack’s clinical stories Portuguese rights sold Age: 14 +
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