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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2018El Talón de Hierro
by Jack London
El manuscrito Everhard contiene la historia de un socialista revolucionario quien, como político y líder de masas obreras, busca la génesis de una gran revuelta para lograr la igualdad y detener el avance de una oligarquía avasalladora, llamada por él el Talón de Hierro. El texto, encontrado y examinado con debidas notas al pie por una sociedad del futuro donde estos abusos ya no ocurren, retrata el momento en que los trabajadores despiertan y la aristocracia los golpea para reprimir sus luchas por los derechos sociales, llevando el capitalismo a un extremo autodestructivo. Si bien esta novela publicada en 1908 fue considerada una distopía en los Estados Unidos, sus alcances proféticos incitaron a futuros editores a utilizar portadas con la imagen de Salvador Allende. Además ejerció una fuerte influencia en otras obras sobre gobiernos totalitarios, la más famosa de ellas 1984 de George Orwell.
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October 2019Rocanrol
by Marcial Gala
En uno de sus mejores poemas, Borges refiere que el lenguaje es tiempo sucesivo y emblema. Rocanrol trata de ese tiempo condensado que es el de la revolución, casi un agujero negro donde el cielo es tomado por asalto. Los personajes inmersos en la vorágine de la Cuba de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, sienten que la historia es una piel que se sobrepone a la propia epidermis. ¿El rock será un medio eficaz para no perder la propia esencia? ¿Cómo encontrarse a sí mismo? La muerte de un soldado en pleno entrenamiento, cartas del Che que salvan a una joven de volver a la prisión, un discurso de despedida de Fidel Castro comunicando el final del guerrillero argentino en Bolivia Rocanrol cuenta también el discurrir de los que no son nadie, empujados por los vientos de cambio. El rock es a la vez iniciación y promesa de un paraíso ilusorio que te hace creer que todo transcurre al ritmo de esa música prohibida y deseada. En un mundo loco solo los locos están cuerdos, dijo cierto artista japonés, y esa frase podría servirle de emblema a estos personajes que se atreven a decir no, cuando todos dicen sí. Alejandro, Ismael, Crazy Horse y el resto de esas dos familias cubanas, construyen su propio relato dentro del relato inmenso de la historia. In one of his best poems, Borges refers that language is successive time and emblem. Rocanrol is about that condensed time that is the revolution, almost a black hole where the sky is taken by storm. The characters immersed in the vortex of Cuba in the second half of the 20th century, they feel that history is a skin that overlaps the epidermis itself. Will rock be an effective way not to lose one's essence? How to find yourself? The death of a soldier in training, letters from Che saving a young woman from returning to prison, a farewell speech by Fidel Castro communicating the end of the Argentine guerrilla in Bolivia Rocanrol also tells of the passage of those who are nobody, driven by the winds of change. Rock is both initiation and promise of an illusory paradise that makes you believe that everything happens to the rhythm of that forbidden and desired music. In a crazy world, only crazy people are sane, said a certain Japanese artist, and that phrase could serve as an emblem for these characters who dare to say no, when everyone says yes. Alejandro, Ismael, Crazy Horse and the rest of those two Cuban families, build their own story within the immense account of history.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentNovember 2017Happy
by Elsa Punset
A fantastic blend of inspiration and awareness brings us close to happiness through a great voyage. With exceptional warmth, this book gives the reader the tools to reach happiness through wisdom that has built up in humanity over the course of the centuries all over the world. An open, vivid book that invites us to take a fascinating journey and gives us a thousand possibilities so that each one of us can find their own way to feel good.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAbrid mentes, tocad corazones
by Jorge A. Sierra
Juan Bautista de La Salle estaba llamado a una vida cómoda y llena de privilegios, pero se dejó conmover por la situación de los niños y jóvenes abandonados y sin educación. Escuchando la palabra de Dios, con profunda fe, se puso en camino, sin mirar atrás.Revolucionó la pedagogía y la organización de la escuela en pleno siglo XVII, pero no lo hizo como un simple maestro, sino como un hermano, formando comunidades de educadores dispuestos a dedicar todas sus fuerzas a la educación humana y cristiana.Su mensaje no quedó en el olvido: se sigue desarrollando en todos los países y después de más de trescientos años. Ahora, nos toca a nosotros la labor: seguir abriendo las mentes y tocando los corazones, poniéndonos al servicio de la educación integral de los más necesitados.
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Sin fronteras
Y otros relatos
by Gustavo Cuervo
Emotion, risk, pain, love, patience, heat, joy... The sensations that unexpectedly assail the open-minded traveler who travels the world off the beaten track, are the basis of these unique stories. Fantastic landscapes as a stage, and its people as actors, help the author to weave his feelings with a simple and passionate prose. True stories that will undoubtedly delight many sofa travelers, but also many action travelers. The remote Tibet, the developed North America, the wild Africa, the Europe of the Iron Curtain or the young Australia, are the extraordinary continents that penetrate the soul of the author while the wind reaches his face, at the same time he discovers the world. An exciting reading that captures and invites the journey without prejudice, without borders, a reading with a moral, with the tricks of an expert adventurer and, above all, with the purest essence of the greatest adventure, life. http://interfolio.es/Actual/Entradas/2010/2/22_SIN_FRONTERAS.html
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019To the barricades. Culture, identity and political mobilization
by José Álvarez Junco
This book gathers some of the author’s many works, selected for their interest about recent historiographical debates. They analyze the main topics that have articulated his long research career: history and theory of social movements, especially of the workers; doctrines, ideologies, myths and rhetoric; the concept of populism and the evolution of nationalist phenomena. The monograph is a good example of the best academic analysis of culture, identity and political mobilization in contemporary Spain.
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Literary FictionMay 2021Outside of time
by Silvia Bardelás
"Destiempo is a song to the fight for internal revolutions and the desire to free ourselves from the vital ropes that bind us." - Armando Requeixo. Diario cultural. Radio Galega Destiempo illuminates the we as the truly human space. An older woman asks her grandson to come back to Galicia from the United States to spend the summer with her. She wants him to attend a kind of social fight that she is carrying out with her friends. They look for action as the only thing that can give meaning to their lives. Silvia Bardelás mixes different generations that share the same problem: the weight of a standardized world, full of discourses, oblivious to vitality. The possibility of feeling alive and real again makes everything move in an unstoppable way. The story is a coming and going of past and present, of ideas and actions that reveal the silent social power and the inner need to feel free. Destiempo (Outside of time) is a community novel. Beyond individuality, beyond the group is the we, which can only emerge genuinely when individuals become singular beings, when they become aware of the myths, the ideology, the discourses that have dominated their lives and those of their ancestors. The narrator puts the focus on the interrelation. He lights up scenes where the characters discover themselves through others.
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Prose: non-fictionMay 2019La revolución de las flâneuses
by Anna M Iglesia
The flâneur has become a cultural icon, but what about flâneuses? This critical study reviews the history of "strolling" women with a contemporary perspective and collects the rights to which they led the way, not yet fully consolidated today.
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Religious buildingsJanuary 2019La catedral habitada
Historia viva de un espacio arquitectónico
by Eduardo Carrero
Esta obra ofrece una dimensión transversal de la historia del espacio de las catedrales a partir de su uso y sus transformaciones, a través de las constantes que realmente determinaron la construcción de cada edificio: la liturgia, la historia institucional y ceremonial, las fiestas locales o la vida cotidiana. Cada catedral fue una entidad autónoma que se rigió por leyes y estatutos propios que también afectaron a su historia arquitectónica y funcional. Desde la perspectiva del clero, la catedral se concentraba entre el altar mayor y el coro, con la organización del culto y sus posibles escenarios. Para reyes y autoridades, la catedral era el marco en el que justificar los orígenes divinos de su gobierno. Para los fieles, la catedral era el gran edificio que albergaba sus señas de identidad, entre las celebraciones y los santos de su devoción; un eslabón arquitectónico entre tierra y cielo. Pero con el paso del tiempo los usos del espacio catedralicio cambiaban y se alteraban. Es, al fin y al cabo, la historia de un espacio edificado en constante transformación.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2020Dissident identity
themes for a new Brazilian history
by Edgard Leite
In ‘Dissident identity: themes for a new Brazilian History’, Edgard Leite continues the work done in 'Predators', which addresses the Brazilian history from the other side, rescuing facts, contradictions and ideas that, over the years and because of a historiography often biased, remained forgotten. A thorough job and an arduous task which the author is not exempt, but faces; as well as facing certain tradition in historical studies. With a concise writing, the author develops his argument from the idea that, since the Copernican revolution, mankind turned to quantity over quality. It is precisely this world that will emerge from Brazil, since the arrival of Europeans will just at a time when the effects of the Copernican turning shall introduce into Europe. Another important point for understanding the history of Brazil will be the secularization of the state, which is strengthened by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution is, above all, its most acute event. Understanding the relationship between state and religion and, especially, the understanding of the concept of mind, will be central to a discussion of the values that shape - or fail to shape - a society. The book ends with the 1964 event, and the reader will wait that the author addresses in forthcoming books, the continuation of Brazilian history. Always with his provocative and powerful bias.
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September 2018Horizontes culturales de la historia del arte: aportes para una acción compartida en Colombia
by Editor académico: Diego Salcedo Fidalgo. Autores: Karen Cordero Reiman, María Clara Cortés Polanía, Claudia Angélica Reyes Sarmiento, Isabel Cristina Ramírez Botero, Mario Alejandro Molano Vega, Diego Salcedo Fidalgo, Julián Sánchez González, María Margarita Malagón-Kurka, Ana María Franco, Jesús Pedro Lorente, Antonio Sánchez Gómez, Gabriela Gil Verenzuela, Paula Jimena Matiz López, Carlos Rojas Cocoma, Daniel García Roldán, Anne-Marie Losonczy, Jairo Enrique Salazar Chaparro, Mariana Dicker Molano.
Horizontes culturales de la historia del arte. Aportes para una acción compartida en Colombia da cuenta de reflexiones que van desde los silencios u omisiones en la historia del arte, pasando por las conexiones complejas entre estética e historia del arte, hasta las vicisitudes de su práctica en el museo o lugares alternativos. También examina la memoria del arte como nuevo modo de representación, relectura y construcción de subjetividad.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureApril 2021Sueños de la Euro
El torneo que reconcilió a un continente
by Miguel L. Pereira
As Paul Auster once said, football is the miracle that allowed Europe to hate itself without destroying itself. The ball has done more than any other political project for brotherhood in a land too used to fighting with itself. After each conflict, it was necessary for the ball to be there to make the continent a space of union and not a perpetual trench. For this reason, every time the European Championship is held, there is a part of the world that looks into each other's eyes and shakes hands. For this reason, when we write about the 60 years of history of this emblematic tournament, we are really drawing our memories, our fears and our desires as Europeans. Because the dreams of Delaunay, Panenka, Charisteas, Aragonés or Éder are also our dreams.
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True stories (Children's/YA)2019The Winnipeg
A Journey to Freedom
by Francisco Jiménez, Macarena Ortega
This is the story of refugees from the Spanish Civil War who, with the help of the Literature Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, arrived in Chile on board a ship called Winnipeg, in 1939 A touching true story told by a little girl who allows us to connect with the universal feeling of rejection of violence, an issue that—undoubtedly— is faced every day, either directly or indirectly. Francisco Jiménez, author of the text, and Macarena Ortega, the illustrator, are the ones who provide us with the opportunity to talk about migration, acceptance, solidarity and the need to embrace ourselves as human beings. By using textures and collage techniques, we can learn about historical events in a friendly and artistic way. To expand the reading experience, a QR code is included in the book, where readers can find the narration in Spanish and English, a video interview with the testimony of a passenger and other additional information.
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Geography & the EnvironmentNovember 2021Shout out what is silenced
A young eco-social activist gives voice to what the Climate Summits silence.
by Alejandro Quecedo del Val, Marina Garcés
"Alejandro Quecedo del Val points to the need for a reform of being and feeling that connects us again with nature." - foreword by Marina Garcés Gritar lo que está callado (Shout out what is silenced) is written by a 19-year-old who has attended climate summits representing Spain. It is not just another book about climate change, it is a book that reveals what is on the fringes of the climate summits, what prevents the fight against climate change from progressing. The invited and silenced young people are the example of the smoke screens that are created in the information of the disaster, for example with the Greta Thunberg phenomenon. Under the slogan Uniting the world to tackle climate change, the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) — held in Glasgow (United Kingdom) from November 1 to 12, 2021— brought together representatives of around 200 governments with the aim of accelerating climate action to comply with the Paris Agreement. In a recent article, Alejandro Quecedo pointed to the disappointment of a large part of the activist sector, after learning about the withdrawal of permits and funding for citizen and scientific initiatives, with the excuse of not "excessively politicizing the summit", a fact to which was added the leak to the media that certain lobbies had pressed to amend the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to deny the evidence of an increasingly imminent catastrophe and blind public opinion with half-truths, sweetened. The author has been interviewed by the most important media in Spain, all interested in his position: to ask for a change of sensitivity in order to stop the eco-social crisis.
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Children's & YALa versión de Eric (Eric's version)
by Nando López
GRAN ANGULAR PRIZE 2020 - In this world of images and appearances, keeping silent or hiding are not an option if we are to defend the inalienable right to be who we are and to defend who we want to be. La versión de Eric combines the intrigue of a thriller with the intimate perspective of its narrator protagonist. The action unfolds in a police station, late at night. As Eric waits to talk to the police about the crime that has just occurred, he recalls his past and everything that led up to the events that have brought him here: he was nine years old when his father left home, eleven when the nightmares started, thirteen the first time he was admitted, fourteen when he met Tania. His friendship with Tania will play a key role in his life as, together, they set out on a new path that leads them to discover and accept themselves. It is through Tania that he takes up acting classes, Lorca, the series, success, followers… but also, on that terrible night, full of secrets, there will be a corpse on the tarmac and half-truths in abundance. Eric just wants his version of the story to be told.
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Children's & YAAugust 2021Lo que no se comprende
by Inés Arredondo
A selection of short stories by Inés Arredondo, in which the feminine, the sensuality, the eroticism, the unspeakable desire, death, the sordid, and otherness are recurrent themes, and they are part of what can´t be understood, of the intangible that are present in the daily life of its characters. This edition exquisitely illustrated by the young Mexican woman John Marceline contains stories like “Summer”, “Shadows between shadows”, “Mariana”, “The Shunammite”, “Opus 123”, among others.
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September 2027Las cuatro Paolinas Polinsky
by Becky Rubinstein
Description Las Cuatro Paolinas Polinsky is a story that takes place in the Mexican Bajío, in the times of the poet Ramón López Velarde. This book narrates the adventures and lives of four generations of women whose existence takes place between the Porfiriato and post-revolutionary Mexico, whose physical and spiritual landscapes become extraordinary in after-dinner chats, in the interpretation of dreams, in poetry readings and mare trot journeys that mark not only the transit of the Polinskys, but of the entire country. The time of this story is marked by the memories of the Paolinas' ancestors, re-presented in the voice and stews of Doña Clementina and through the writing of Don Ramiro's Almanaque. In this novel, Becky Rubinstein recreates a beautiful provincial Mexico, but also a convulsive nation, full of fantastic characters that inhabit every corner and town in the interior of the country; A Mexico that has apparently vanished, but that survives in family stories and in the verses of López Velarde, in that soft homeland that not only saw the arrival of modernity, the train and the iron and concrete palaces, but also a violent social revolution that transformed everyone's walk on trotting roads, and later, on stumbling avenues infested by motorized vehicles. Welcome to this journey through time to recognize ourselves in the faces of each of the four Paolinas Polinsky. Sinopsis Las Cuatro Paolinas Polinsky es una historia que ocurre en el bajío mexicano, en tiempos del poeta Ramón López Velarde. Este libro narra las aventuras y la vida de cuatro generaciones de mujeres cuya existencia transcurre entre el porfiriato y el México posrevolucionario, cuyos paisajes físicos y espirituales se vuelven extraordinarios en charlas de sobremesa, en la interpretación de los sueños, en lecturas de poemarios y enrecorridos a trote de yegua que van marcando no sólo el tránsito de las Polinsky, sino del país entero. El tiempo de esta historia lo pautan los recuerdos de los ancestros de las Paolinas, re-presentados en la voz y los guisos de doña Clementina y a través de la escritura del Almanaque de don Ramiro. En esta novela, Becky Rubinstein, recrea un hermoso México provincial, pero también una nación convulsa, llena de personajes fantásticos que habitan en todos los rincones y pueblos del interior del país; un México que en apariencia se ha esfumado, pero que sobrevive en los relatos familiares y en los versos de López Velarde, en esa suave patria que no sólo vio la llegada de la modernidad, del tren y los palacios de hierro y concreto, sino también una violenta revolución social que transformó el andar de todos sobre caminos al trote, y después, sobre tropezadas avenidas infestadas por vehículos motorizados. Bienvenidos a este viaje por el tiempo para reconocernos en los rostros de cada una de la cuatro Paolinas Polinsky.
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SECRETOS DEL CLANDESTINAJE (Secrets of the underground)
Las vidas que alumbraron el levantamiento zapatista (The lives that illuminated the Zapatista uprising)
by Federico Ramírez
Faced with the repression of the popular student movement, which in October 1968 culminated in the Tlatelolco massacre, dozens of guerrilla groups emerged in Mexico. Conceived to confront an implacable enemy, these organizations had to develop and act clandestinely, behind the back of the law, without being able to fully achieve their objective of linking up with the people they were trying to lead towards revolution, since they only came to public light in quick and small propaganda actions or in violent confrontations with soldiers and police, who persecuted with equal ferocity both militants and frightened citizens suspected of sympathizing with the subversives.In society, concerns arose without a clear and reliable answer: Who are these people really? Why do young people who could have a decent future expose themselves to almost certain death? And what is their daily life like; what do they do when they are not robbing banks? Where do they get their weapons? How can they abandon their parents, their partners, their children? What drives the increasingly rare survivors to continue fighting decade after decade without renouncing their ideas? The novel Secretos del clandestinaje offers a comprehensive and authoritative answer to these questions; it is an authentic narrative based on shocking real events that the author witnessed and knew directly from more than twenty years of militancy as a member of the Directorate of the National Liberation Forces and the Command of the Zapatista Army.When opening the book, hundreds of gray men and women who talk, dress, walk, work and travel, without distinguishing themselves from those around them? because their purpose is precisely to go unnoticed while they follow a policeman, acquire military manuals, receive donations of medicines, work in an oil company, rent apartments with assumed names, fill out forms in an embassy, teach or take classes, chat in parks and ice cream parlors, drive a cab, sell ground coffee in markets and restaurants... to fulfill the modest mission that day corresponds to them in the great project: to silently build the revolutionary organization to overthrow the regime.Through the lens of literary art, the reader will see everything from student rallies to jungle camps, passing through safe houses, recruitment of combatants, political debates, armed confrontations, persecutions, ambushes... acts, thoughts, emotions of men and women who, in the search for a world of justice and freedom, gave their lives and, if the time came, also their death. Ante la represión al movimiento estudiantil popular, que en octubre de 1968 culminó con la masacre de Tlatelolco, surgieron en México docenas de grupos guerrilleros. Concebidas para enfrentar a un enemigo implacable, estas organizaciones tuvieron que gestarse y actuar en el clandestinaje, a espaldas de la ley, sin poder lograr a plenitud su objetivo de vincularse con el pueblo al que pretendían conducir hacia la revolución, pues sólo salían a la luz pública en rápidas y pequeñas acciones de propaganda o en violentos enfrentamientos con soldados y policías, quienes perseguían con igual saña tanto a los militantes como a los atemorizados ciudadanos sospechosos de simpatizar con los subversivos.En la sociedad surgían entonces inquietudes sin una contestación clara y confiable: ¿Quiénes son en realidad esas personas? ¿Por qué se exponen a una muerte casi segura jóvenes que podrían tener un futuro decoroso? ¿Y cómo es su diario vivir; qué hacen cuando no andan asaltando bancos? ¿De dónde sacan sus armas? ¿Cómo pueden abandonar a sus padres, su pareja, sus hijos? ¿Qué impulsa a los cada vez más escasos sobrevivientes a seguir luchando década tras década sin renunciar a sus ideas? La novela Secretos del clandestinaje ofrece una respuesta amplia y autorizada a esas preguntas; es una narración auténtica basada en impactantes hechos reales protagonizados y conocidos directamente por el autor en más de veinte años de militancia como integrante de la Dirección de las Fuerzas de Liberación Nacional y de la Comandancia del Ejército Zapatista.Al abrir el libro saldrán a escena centenares de hombres y mujeres grises que hablan, visten, caminan, laboran y viajan, sin distinguirse exteriormente de quienes los rodean… porque su propósito es precisamente pasar desapercibidos mientras siguen a un policía, adquieren manuales militares, reciben donativos de medicinas, trabajan en una empresa petrolera, rentan departamentos con nombres supuestos, llenan formularios en una embajada, imparten o toman clases, charlan en parques y neverías, conducen un taxi, venden café molido en mercados y restaurantes… para cumplir la modesta misión que ese día les corresponde en el gran proyecto: construir en silencio la organización revolucionaria para derrocar al régimen.Con el lente del arte literario verá el lector desde mítines estudiantiles hasta campamentos en la selva, pasando por casas de seguridad, reclutamiento de combatientes, debates políticos, enfrentamientos armados, persecuciones, emboscadas… actos, pensamientos, emociones de hombres y mujeres que en la búsqueda de un mundo de justicia y libertad entregaron su vida y, si acaso llegó el momento, también su muerte.
