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■ Anthropology, 2Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo Los códices mesoamericanos antes

y después de la conquista española, 2

Carlos García Gual, Mitos, viajes, héroes, 2

Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, La lucha por la tierra, 2

Ana Pizarro, Amazonía. El río tiene voces, 3

Luis E. Valcárcel, Machu Picchu, 4

■ Art, 5Maricarmen Gómez, Consuelo Carredano and Victoria Eli

(eds.), Historia de la música en España e Hispanoamé-rica: vol. 2. De los Reyes Católicos a Felipe II, 5; vol. 6. La música en Hispanomaérica en el siglo xix, 5; vol. 1. De los orígenes hasta c. 1470, 5

Sandra Martínez Rossi, La piel como superficie simbólica, 6

Francisco Calvo Serraller, Extravíos, 6

Vlady, Las revoluciones y los elementos, 7

■ Children’s Books, 8Nicolás Arispe, El camino más largo, 8

Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, El cuaderno de las pesadillas, 8

Antonio Malpica, Por el color del trigo, 9

■ eduCAtion, 10

Juan Carlos Tedesco, Educación y justicia social en América Latina, 10

■ history, 11

Enrique Florescano, La función social de la historia, 11

Rafael Bernal, El Gran Océano, 11

Marina Franco, Un enemigo para la nación, 12

Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, 13

Rosana Guber, ¿Por qué Malvinas?, 14

Luis Alberto Romero, Breve historia contemporánea de la Argentina, 1916-2010, 14

Georg G. Iggers, La historiografía del siglo xx, 15

Lourdes Turrent, La conquista musical de México, 15

Iván Jaksić and Eduardo Posada Carbó (eds.), Liberalismo y poder, 16

■ literAture, 17

Antonio Alatorre, El heliocentrismo en el mundo de habla española, 17; La migraña, 17

Sylvia Molloy, En breve cárcel, 18

Ana Basualdo, Oldsmobile 1962, 18

C. E. Feiling, El mal menor, 19

Germán García, Nanina, 19

Julio Torri, Obra completa, 20

Jorge López Páez, ¡A huevo, Kuala Lumpur!, 21; El chupa-mirto y otros relatos, 21

Luis Jorge Boone, La noche caníbal, 22; Largas filas de gente rara, 22

Carlos Solórzano, Tríptico, 23

Alberto Chimal, El último explorador, 23

Inés Arredondo, Ensayos, 24; Cuentos completos, 24

Amparo Dávila, Poesía reunida, 25; Cuentos reunidos, 25

Paula Carrasco, Volver. Primero estaba el mar, 26

Germán Marín, El Guarén. Historia de un guardaespaldas, 26

Gonzalo Rojas, Qedeshím Qedeshóth, 27; Íntegra, 27

Dolores Castro, Viento quebrado. Poesía reunida, 28

Salvador Elizondo, Contubernio de espejos, 28

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Rompeolas. Poesía reunida, 29

Mauricio Merlino, Voces comunes y otros poemas, 29

Pura López Colomé, Santo y seña, 30

Tomás Segovia, Digo yo, 31

Guillermo Sheridan, Señales debidas, 31

Mercedes de la Garza, El legado escrito de los mayas, 32

Carlos Chimal, Futurama. 32

Christopher Domínguez Michael, Diccionario crítico de la literatura mexicana (1955-2005), 33

■ philosophy, 34

Philipp Mainländer, Filosofía de la redención, 34

Luis Villoro, El proceso ideológico de la revolución de independencia, 34

■ politiCs, 35

José Briceño Ruiz, Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and Ángel M. Casas Gragea (eds.), Integración latinoamericana y caribeña, 35

■ sCienCe, 36

Shahen Hacyan, Ovnis y viajes interestelares, ¿realidad o fantasía?, 36

Ruy Pérez Tamayo, La Revolución científica, 36

■ soCiology, 3 7

Daniel Feierstein, Memorias y representaciones, 37

Gunther Dietz, Multiculturalismo, interculturalidad y diversidad en educación, 37

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Los códices o “libros antiguos de los naturales”, según frayToribio de Benavente, Motolinía, son depositarios de sabidu-ría y conocimiento. En ellos se conserva y reproduce una grancantidad de datos genealógicos, catastrales, tributarios, milita-res o religiosos vitales para todas las actividades de los reinosmesoamericanos. Artistas de todas las provincias eran desti-nados a pintarlos y, si bien el tipo de escenas, secuencias ysímbolos variaba de un género de códices a otro, todos teníanen común una serie de rasgos estilísticos y se valían de un mis-mo repertorio básico de convenciones pictográficas.

Pablo Escalante estudia en este libro el sistema de registrode los códices mesoamericanos antes y después de la con-quista española, especialmente el lenguaje pictográfico y “lasescenas”. Se centra en el análisis de la representación del cuer-po humano, portador o ejecutor de dichas convenciones pic-tográficas.

“Es la obra de Donald Robertson, Mexican Manuscript Paintingof the Early Colonial Period, de 1959, frente a la cual se define eltrabajo de Pablo Escalante, quien la valora de manera adecua-da, la critica con respeto y la supera en varios aspectos particu-lares. Son notables los eruditos análisis sobre la representacióndel cuerpo humano y la discusión sobre el naturalismo.”

RODRIGO MARTÍNEZ BARACS

PABLO ESCALANTE GONZALBO es doctor en historia por la Facultad de Filo-sofía y Letras e investigador del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticasde la UNAM. Se especializa en historia de la cultura en el México cen-tral, a finales de la etapa prehispánica y principios de la época colo-nial. Coordinó el primer volumen de la Historia de la vida cotidianaen México. Mesoamérica y los ámbitos indígenas de la Nueva España(2004) y la guía El México antiguo. De Tehuantepec a Baja California(2009), ambos coediciones del FCE, el primero con El Colegio de Méxi-co, y el segundo con el CIDE. Es autor, entre otros títulos, de El arte cris-tiano indígena del siglo XVI novohispano y sus modelos europeos(CIDHEM, 2009).

escalante-los códices mesoamericanos 7/27/10 4:28 PM Page 1 This analysis gives a broad outline of iconographic changes recorded in the drawing of codices during

the Spanish conquest—particularly in the 16th century. Through a detailed account of their stylistic features, especially in relation to the depiction of the human body—anatomy, posture, gestures, and expressions—Pablo Escalante reveals a basic repertoire of ideographic conventions shared by Mesoamerican artists.

Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo earned his PhD in History from the unam, where he has worked as a professor since 1986. He has been a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research since 1990. His work covers subjects such as art, Christian lit-urgy for the indigenous people, and cultural history in New Spain during the 16th century.

■ An innovative, essential contribution to the knowledge of Pre-Columbian Mexico.

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2010413 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: AntropologíaSubject: Pre-Columbian MexicoISBN: 9786071603081(paperback)

Los códices mesoamericanos antes y después de la conquista española

The Mesoamerican Codices before and after the Spanish Conquest

Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo

Mitos, viajes, héroes is a collection of five essays on topics of Greek mythology that have profoundly influenced literature. A prologue

details and explains the use and meaning of the word myth: “a traditional story that narrates the memorable actions of extraordinary characters during a prestigious and distant time.” This new edition concludes with an epilogue that underscores how the tradition of Greek mythology lives on in modern literature.

CArlos gArCíA guAl (Palma de Mallorca, 1943) is a professor of Greek Philology at the Complutense University in Madrid. Author of several essays on Greek literature, phi-losophy and mythology, and translator of various classical works.

■ The five editions of Mitos, viajes, héroes (1981, 1983 and 1985 published by Taurus, 1996 by Taurus Bolsillo and 2001 by Punto de Lectura), have served as a textbook for several generations of scholars and those with an interest in classical mythology and literature.

■ Despite this work being one of Carlos García Gual’s finest, it has been out of print for almost a decade.

Mitos, viajes, héroes

Myths, Journeys, Heroes

Carlos García Gual

1st ed., fce-Spain, 2011272 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)

Series: AntropologíaSubjects: Greek Literature, Greek Mythology

ISBN: 9788437506609(paperback)

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La lucha por la tierra. Los títulos primordiales y los pueblos indios en México, siglos xix y xx

The Fight for the Land. Original Land Titles and Indian Peoples in Mexico, 19th and 20th Centuries

Ethelia Ruiz Medrano

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2012132 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)

Series: AntropologíaSubjects: Codices,

Pictographic languageISBN: 9786071611048

(paperback)

This historiographical study analyzes the pictographic documents that were preserved by or commissioned to the indigenous peoples of Mexico from the

19th to the 20th century in order to demonstrate to the cadastral and legal authori-ties their rights to communal lands. The author, aided by Claudio Barrera Gutié-rrez and Florencio Barrera Gutiérrez, has rescued from oblivion the original land titles, maps, and codices of Techiolayan, among other documents. These combine to constitute the legal codices that the Indians presented to prove their rights to the lands of their ancestors, and to thus ensure the preservation of their customs.

etheliA ruiz MedrAno (1961) holds a PhD in History from the University of Seville and has post-doctoral studies in Anthropology at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is research-er and professor at the Department of Historical Studies and a member of inah National System of Researchers. Her publications include Gobierno y sociedad en Nueva España: Segunda Audiencia y Antonio de Mendoza (1991) and Mexico’s Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, 1500 to 2010 (2010), among other books and articles. ClAudio BArrerA gutiérrez (Lerma, Mexico, 1976) is Lerma’s municipal historian and a mem-ber of the Mexiquense Association of Municipal Historians (amecrom).FlorenCio BArrerA gutiérrez (Mexico, 1980) is a young historian from the unam.

Forthcoming

Amazonía diligently examines discourses on this geographical and cultural region which has long fed people’s imaginations. Common references

that shape the cultural area (the Amazon ‘nation’) are traced through a close reading of the chronicles of exploration and conquest, as well as through literary and cinematographic references; the breadth of these records opens up a broad perspective of the cultural, social and geopolitical processes involved in the Amazonian evolution.

AnA pizArro is a researcher, academic and literary critic. She earned a PhD in Literature from the University of Paris and is a teacher of French at the University of Chile. Visit-ing professor at universities in Spain and Canada, she is also a teacher and researcher of Latin American literature and culture.

■ Tackles cultural issues such as dynamic and complex entities in order to understand and place the formations of continental identities from an anthropological and discursive perspective.

■ Defines objective proposals about cultural expressions, seeking to outline the subjective horizons that have led to our cultural evolution.

Amazonía. El río tiene voces

Amazonia. River Voices

Ana Pizarro

1st ed., fce-Chile, 2009252 pp. 16 × 23 cm (6.3 × 9 in)Series: Tierra FirmeSubjects: Anthropology, EthnographyISBN: 9789562890762(paperback)


Anthropology

Unlike publications that focus on Machu Picchu as simply a tourist attraction and even as an esoteric construction, this work by Luis E. Valcárcel, who researched this fortress

shortly after it was first discovered, rescues its reputation as one of mankind’s most excep-tional creations with descriptions of its origins, discovery, natural and historical setting, its political and religious purpose, and its possible inhabitants. Valcárcel’s research made the initial connection between the citadel and Pachacutec, the most important ruler to govern the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyo). The work is explained and based on the thesis that Machu Picchu was essentially a magical-religious site, and that the surrounding environment enhanced its sacred quality. The history of Machu Picchu is inseparable from that of the Urubamba valley, the main theater of development for the last phase of Peruvian culture: the Inca Empire.

luis e. VAlCárCel (1891-1987) is considered the father of indigenous studies, and left a vast legacy of knowledge about Andean civilization. He directed several museums and created institutions related to the study of History and Ethnology in his native Peru. He was vice-president and numerary member of (what is now known as) the National History Academy. In 1934 he rediscovered the Sacsayhuaman fortress and led the archaeological work at the site. His prizes and awards include the National Culture Prize for Human Sciences and Gran Orden del Sol (Peru), the Legion of Honour and Order of Academic Palms (France); the Order of Merit (Italy), and the Águila Azteca (Mexico).

■ The clearest explanation of the origin and meaning of the Inca Empire’s most representative construction; considered one of the new wonders of the world.

■ Its author, Luis Valcárcel, took part in the expeditions organized by Hiram Bingham, the man who discovered this monumental archaeological site.

Machu PicchuEl más famoso monumento arqueológico del Perú

Machu Picchu Peru’s Most Famous Archaeological Monument

Luis E. Valcárcel

2nd ed., fce-Peru, 2009160 pp.14 × 21 cm (5.5 × 8.3 in)Series: HistoriaSubjects: Inca Empire, History of Ancient AmericaISBN: 9789972663581(paperback)

Art

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This volume delves into the music of the Middle Ages as part of an ambitious eight-volume publishing project, each one

edited and coordinated by prestigious and renowned researchers. The aim of the series is to provide a reference work that brings together all the necessary elements to further the understanding of the Hispanic world’s musical history and tradition.

MAriCArMen góMez holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She studied Music at the Conservatoire of the Lyceum of Barcelona and Musicology at the University of Gottingen. Since 1997 she has held a chair in Early Music at the Autonomous Uni-versity of Barcelona.

This book focuses on music during the Renaissance, and examines religious music and Spanish lyrical repertoires

by looking at pieces of music from Spanish America, includ-ing instrumental scores. Coordinated by leading authorities on the topic, this publication forms part of an ambitious eight-volume project. The collection is set to become a comprehensive reference work that recounts the musical history and tradition in Spain and Spanish America.

The sixth volume of the series Historia de la música en España e Hispanoamérica explores the complexi-

ties of 19th-century Latin American music, displaying the vast diversity—and at the same time revealing a surpris-ing unity—in the ways in which music was created, played, distributed, and above all understood after the birth of the many Latin American nations.

Consuelo CArredAno (Mexico) is a researcher for the Aes-thetics Research Institute at the unam. She is professor of the Doctoral Program of Music at Mexico’s National School of Music at the same university.ViCtoriA eli (Cuba-Spain) is a full-time professor at the Com-plutense University of Madrid, specializing in History and Mu-sic Sciences.

Vol. 1. De los orígenes hasta c. 1470

Vol. 1. Origins through 1470 Maricarmen Gómez (ed.)

Historia de la música en España e Hispanoamérica

History of Music in Spainand Latin America

1st ed., fce-Spain, 2009392 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)Series: Historia de la Música en España e HispanoaméricaSubjects: Music, HistoryISBN: 9788437506364(hardcover)ISBN: 9788437506388(paperback)

Vol. 2. De los Reyes Católicos a Felipe II

Vol. 2. From the Catholic Kings to Philip IIMaricarmen Gómez (ed.)

1st ed., fce-Spain, 2012548 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm(6.5 × 9 in)Series: Historia de la Música en España e HispanoaméricaSubjects: Music, HistoryISBN: 9788437506760(hardcover)ISBN: 9788437506777(paperback)

1st ed., fce-Spain, 2010398 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)Series: Historia de la Música en España e HispanoaméricaSubjects: Music, HistoryISBN: 9788437506463(hardcover)ISBN: 9788437506470(paperback)

Vol. 6. La música en Hispanoamérica en el siglo xix

Vol. 6. Music in Latin America during the 19th Century

Consuelo Carredanoand Victoria Eli (eds.)


Art

In Extravíos, a selection of the author’s columns published in the newspaper El País for over fifteen years under the same title, Francisco

Calvo Serraller develops his artistic and literary opinions. Eschewing an intellectualized approach, he opts instead for a more intimate style. And by straying off the scholarly and critical path—he is also a well-regarded critic—Calvo enters new territory as a poet and creator.

FrAnCisCo CAlVo serrAller (1948), professor of art history at the Complutense University of Madrid, director of the Prado Museum in the early 1990’s, member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and author of several mono-graphs. He has also organized major exhibitions and penned hundreds of newspa-per articles.

■ The vast majority of these columns are practically impossible to find either in newspaper libraries or online.

■ Francisco Calvo Serraller is an established authority on the analysis and historiography of contemporary Hispanic art.

1st ed., fce-Spain, 2011513 pp. 15.5 × 23 cm (6.1 × 9 in)

Series: TezontleSubjects: Sociology, Anthropology


Extravíos

Drifting

Francisco Calvo Serraller

Skin is deep” would aptly sum up this work. For Sandra Martínez Rossi, the skin is a symbolic space upon which an individual’s and

society’s memory and identity is built; a methodological starting point that the author examines from the perspective of anthropol-ogy, contemporary art, and sociology. The book also looks at specific examples of communities, scholars, and today’s foremost artists.

sAndrA MArtínez rossi (1963) holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Granada in Spain. Between 1994 and 2004 she was assistant professor of Painting at the School of Fine Arts at the National University of Rosario in Argentina. Since 2000 she has resided in Spain working as an academic. She has taken part in solo and group exhibitions in various galleries, cultural centers and national and international museums.

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La piel como superficie simbólica. Procesos de transculturaciónen el arte contemporáneo

The Skin as Symbolic SurfaceTransculturation Processes in Contemporary Art

Sandra Martínez Rossi

1st ed., fce-Spain, 2011332 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: TezontleSubjects: Art Criticism and InterpretationISBN: 9788437506623(paperback)

■ A major multidisciplinary work that shows that the skin speaks for the subject and for the society to which the subject belongs.

■ Sandra Martínez Rossi uses her artist’s eye to give us this unusual yet complementary analysis of skin as a symbolic surface.

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This volume includes high-quality reproductions of the murals painted by Vlady in the Lerdo de Tejada Library from 1972 to 1982. Covering 2000 square meters, this artwork revolves around one

main theme—revolution, both in its social and cultural aspects. Two texts complement Vlady’s work, one that is written by the painter himself and takes the reader on a journey through his work, its devel-opment and meaning; the second is an essay by Leonardo Da Jandra that explores the many facets of Vlady’s muralist paintings.

VlAdy (Petrograd, 1920 - Cuernavaca, 2005) settled in Mexico in 1943. Since 1945 he took part in many individual and collec-tive exhibitions. His murals are praised for their wide range of techniques and subjects. He designed stage scenery and illus-trated various publications. Vlady received the 1971 Salón de Grabado en la Plástica Mexicana Prize.

■ One of the great masters of Mexican mural painting explains his own work.■ Includes a colorful fold-out of the entire mural.

Las revoluciones y los elementos. Monólogos, zozobras, provocaciones y obsesiones del maestro Vlady en la Biblioteca Miguel Lerdo de Tejada de la shcp

Revolution and the Elements Vlady’s Monologues, Tribulations, Provocations and Obsessions at the Miguel Lerdo de Tejada Library

Vlady

Extravíos

Drifting

Francisco Calvo Serraller

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 201180 pp. 30 × 30 cm (11.8 × 11.8 in)Series: TezontleSubject: Painting, MuralismISBN: 9786071605832(hardcover)

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Children's Books

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A young man spends several months in the woods, meditating on the secrets of the universe. When he feels that he has seen the light, he

returns to vist his teacher to tell him that he is now wise. But the mentor demonstrates, in the simplest possible way, that removing oneself too far from the world can make one forget the most essential things in life. Along the way, the apprentice crosses—but without truly seeing them—various symbolic landscapes which can be seen to represent different stages of life.

niColás Arispe was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. He has illustrated many novels, stories, magazines, comics, book covers, and drawings for films. In 2006 he received the alija Destacado Award for best novel illustration. He also received a special mention in the 2008 Compostela International Picture Book Prize and Kalandraka Publisher Award for his book La visita.

■ Enigmatic and open to diverse readings, this book is perfect for introducing children to some basic philosophical concepts and suggesting to them ways to develop their own stories.

■ This story represents the universal epic journey of the hero, an archetype found in all cultures.

A notebook containing every story never told. Stories that do not need paper or words to exist, because they are terrifying tales,

voiceless and mouthless, that take shape only when we close our eyes. In this book, according to writer Mónica Lavín, “the reader also gains an awareness of the words, their sound, their strangeness, their power, of what can be built with them. A truly wonderful reading experience.”

El cuaderno de las pesadillas

The Notebook of Nightmares

Ricardo Chávez Castañeda

El camino más largo Nicolás Arispe

The Longest Road

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 201232 pp. 17 × 23 cm (6.7 × 9 in)Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del VientoSubject: ReflectionISBN: 9786071606273 (hardcover)

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 201277 pp. 17 × 23 cm (6.7 × 9 in)

Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del VientoSubject: Fears

ISBN: 9786071608635(hardcover)

riCArdo CháVez CAstAñedA was born in Mexico City. He has written nearly thirty books, some of which have received important awards such as the San Luis Potosí Prize for short stories, the José Rubén Romero Award for novels, the filij Juan de la Cabada award for children’s literature, among others.isrAel BArrón was born in Pachuca, Hidalgo. He took part in an artistic residency training program in Prokuplje, Serbia. He has participated in 20 individual exhibitions and 41 collective exhibitions, in Mexico and abroad.

■ An outstanding illustrated horror story for young adults.

Age: 13+

Age: 8+

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Antonio MAlpiCA has published several books and obtained awards such as the Short Novel Rosario Castellanos Award for La nena y el mar, and the Norma Children and Young Adults Literature International Award.iBAn BArrenetxeA is an illustrator and graphic designer. He wrote Bombástica naturalis and illustrated El cazador y la ballena. His work was included in the 28th edition of Le immagini della fantasia catalog.

■ A profound and unforgettable narrative of the life and work of an extraordinary author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, told with great wit and humor.

■ The quality of the writing will undoubtedly appeal to children who have already been introduced to The Little Prince, and to all adults already familiar with that classic work of literature.

Por el color del trigo

The Color of WheatAntonio Malpica

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 201267 pp. 16 × 24 cm (6.3 × 9.5 in)Series: Los Especiales de A la Orilla del VientoSubject: Friendship ISBN: 9786071609243(hardcover)

This fictionalized biography of the author of The Little Prince, brimming with imag-

ination and subtle literary references, begins when Tonio, the main character, sets off to discover the world. As the story progresses, we are gradually introduced to the likeable Scoundrel, with whom Tonio discusses his stories, the people he knows, and the friend he must find. The story ends with the expedition from which Tonio would never return.

Age: 10+

Área Temática

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Education

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Educación y justicia social en América Latina

Education and Social Justicein Latin America

Juan Carlos Tedesco

Juan Carlos Tedesco, Argentina’s former Minister of Education, analyzes the historical connection between—and the future of—education and society in Latin America. To

achieve this he recovers solid hypotheses and theoretical frameworks on educational theory and incorporates the findings of studies on current social, political, economic and cultural transformations.

JuAn CArlos tedesCo is a specialist in education and a researcher at the University of San Martín; he was for-merly the unesco Regional Director for Education for Latin America and the Caribbean.

■ A must-read for anyone wanting to grasp the region’s future educational challenges.■ “A text that does not pull its punches, written with a deep sense of solidarity.”

Carlos Ruta

1st ed., fce-Argentina, 2012272 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: EducaciónSubjects: Education, Latin AmericaISBN: 9789505579105(paperback)

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Tierra adentro, mar en fuera. El puerto de Veracruz y su litoral a Sotavento, 1519-1821

Antonio García de León

El almirante de la mar Océano: vida de Cristóbal Colón

Samuel Eliot Morison

Atacama. Ensayo sobre la Guerra del Pacífi co, 1879-1883

Claude Michel Cluny

Pasajeros de Indias. Viajes trasatlánticos en el siglo XVI

José Luis Martínez

Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas

Antonio de Morga

Viajeros por la América Latina colonial

Irving Albert Leonard

Las cuatro partes del mundo. Historia de una mundialización

Serge Gruzinski

RAFAEL BERNAL fue un reconocido diplomáti-

co y escritor mexicano nacido en la Ciudad

de México. En 1972 obtuvo el doctorado en

literatura en la Universidad de Friburgo, Sui-

za. Además de realizar algunas traduccio-

nes, escribió novela, cuento, poesía, teatro

e historia. Entre sus obras más relevantes se

encuentran En diferentes mundos (1965), El

maíz en la casa (1965), México en Filipinas

(1965), El complot mongol (1969) y Mestizaje

y criollismo en la literatura de la Nueva Espa-

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A historiographical study of the process of trans-culturation that took place in the Pacific Ocean

as a result of the ventures and voyages of members of European and Asian expansionist nations. The author analyzes expansionist thought, as well as its effects on the communities affected by the expansion.

rAFAel BernAl (Mexico 1915 - Bern, 1972) was a renowned Mexican diplomat and writer born in Morelia. In 1972 he earned a PhD in Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry, theatre, and historical essays; he was also a translator. Among his most important works are En diferentes mundos (1965), El maíz en la casa (1965), México en Filipinas (1965), El com-plot mongol (1969) and Mestizaje y criollismo en la literatura de la Nueva España del siglo xvi (1994).

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Enrique Florescano (Coscomatepec, Veracruz, 1937) es doctor en historia por la École Pratique des Hautes Études de la Universidad de París (Sorbona). Autor de numerosos libros y artículos sobre una diversidad de temas de historia mexicana: el pasado prehispánico, la historiografía, la historia económica y social, la memoria, los símbolos y los mitos, y las identidades, entre otros. Se le considera uno de los principales renovadores de la investigación histórica, pues introdujo en México el enfoque historiográfico de la escuela francesa de los Annales, con su interés por el estudio de los largos procesos históricos desde la perspectiva económica y social. Algunas de sus publicaciones son La historia y el historiador (1997), La bandera mexicana. Breve historia de su formación y simbolismo (1998), Para qué estudiar y enseñar la historia (2000), Quetzalcóatl y los mitos fundadores de América (2004), Los orígenes del poder en Mesoamérica (2009) y Atlas histórico de México, (2009).

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The author of this work ponders the essential role of the historian in society. Divided into two parts, La función social de la historia first elucidates the

social function of history, and afterward questions the fundamentals of histori-ography since the rediscovery of oral narrative and its impact on the recon-struction of the past, whether it is through myth, memory, or fiction.

enrique FloresCAno is a Mexican historian and the author of numerous books and arti-cles on a wide range of pre-Columbian topics. He studied Law and History at the Univer-sity of Veracruz. He earned his master’s degree in World History at El Colegio de México and a PhD in History at the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the University of Paris.

La función social de la historia

The Social Function of History

Enrique Florescano

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2012403 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in)

Series: BreviariosSubjects: Historiography,

History TheoryISBN: 9786071611062

(paperback)

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2012519 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)Series: HistoriaSubjects: Pacific Ocean, navigation, commercial relationsISBN: 9786071610102(paperback)

History

■ Florescano’s La función social de la historia is an innovative, essential contribution to the relations between the social sphere and history as a whole.

■ An outstanding historiographical study on the importance of the Pacific Ocean in the process of acculturation of peoples.

■ A seminal work on the relationship between the Pacific Ocean and the eleven Latin American countries bordering it.


History

Un enemigo para la nación reveals the reasons for the escalating violence in Argentinian society

which, after various decades, led to the 1976 military dictatorship. Franco analyzes the problem of violence in the constitutional period between May 1973 and March 1976, and examines the historic framework that was formed between the authoritarian and repressive government measures, and the dominant political and journalistic discourses. The author is therefore able to pinpoint the elements which cre-ated, from 1973, a growing state of legal exception linked to a repressive political logic focused on the elimination of an internal enemy.

MArinA FrAnCo holds a PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Paris 7, and she is currently a researcher for the Conicet and the Social Studies Institute (idaes) at the University of San Martín.

Un enemigo para la nación. Orden interno, violencia y “subversión”, 1973-1976

An Enemy of the Nation Internal Order, Violence and “Subversion”, 1973-1976

Marina Franco

1st ed., fce-Argentina, 2012352 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)

Series: HistoriaSubject: Argentinian Politics History


■ “In this look back at the past, at the struggles and politics of memory, Marina Franco has written a book that sets up a dialogue and questions this aversion to looking at the mirror of the past.”

Cristian Pereyra. Nuevos Mundos, Mundos Nuevos magazine

■ Un enemigo para la nación is a lucid account of recent Argentinian history and offers a clearheaded analysis based on solid foundations for a debate still pending for Argentinian society.

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An essential history of the conquest of Peru. In this first volume, Guamán Poma de Ayala recounts the

history of the Inca Empire: biographies of the Inca hierar-chies, its laws, and concludes with a report on the symbolic reality of life in the Andes, specifically in Cuzco—the center of the Andean world.

The second part of Guamán’s work refers to good government, specifically that of the Spanish author-

ities during Peru’s colonial period. Primarily this is a testimony rather than history, and a moral treatise instead of an account of his personal experience—hence the controversy surrounding the information it provides on the Spanish invasion: it seeks to smoothe over the trauma produced by the conquest and considers coloni-zation to have been a learning experience.

This third volume contains studies by Jan Szeminski on the languages used by Guamán Poma de Ayala in his writing. For the first time, this chronicle is pub-

lished with a complete list of the vernacular words along with a detailed and well-informed translation of its sections written in Quechua and onomastic, toponymic, and ethnonymic indexes.

Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno

New Chronicle and Good Government

Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala

■ The text, discovered in 1908, is one of the most important findings for our understanding of the Andean world.■ The richest source of ethnographical information (with 400 illustrations) on the social, economic, and political

organization of pre-conquest America.

Vol III, 2nd ed., fce-Peru, 2005290 pp. 15.5 × 23 cm (6.1 × 9 in)

Series: HistoriaSubjects: Inca Empire, History

of Ancient AmericaISBN: 9789972663475

(paperback)

Vol. II, 2nd ed., fce-Peru, 2005943 pp. 15.5 × 23 cm (6.1 × 9 in) Subjects: Inca Empire, History of Ancient AmericaSeries: HistoriaISBN: 9789972663468(paperback)

Vol. I, 2nd ed., fce-Peru, 2005334 pp. 15.5 × 23 cm (6.1 × 9 in)Series: HistoriaSubjects: Inca Empire, History of Ancient AmericaISBN: 9789972663451(paperback)

Felipe guAMán poMA de AyAlA. Information about the author’s life is sketchy: most of our knowledge comes from Guamán’s own references to himself in his work. He is thought to have lived between 1534 and 1615 and to have been a descendant from the Yarovilca dynasty of Huánuco, the lords of Chinchaysuyo, whose insignia and shield featured the falcon and puma (Gua-mán, Poma), a source of pride for the author. One certainty is that Guamán is the principal indigenous chronicler who sets out a testimony from the perspective of the subject peoples.

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Foreign Rights 2012

With over 130,000 copies sold since it was first published in 1994, Breve historia contemporánea de Argentina has become a classic study on the

details of Argentinian history over the past century, an essential textbook for scholars and general readers alike. This extended edition includes the period from De la Rúa’s government in 1999 to Néstor Kirchner’s death in 2010. The epilogue looks at the Kirchner administration from the perspective of Argentina’s long-running and unresolved economic crisis.

luis AlBerto roMero is chief researcher at the Conicet and postgraduate professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University and at the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty.

■ Look no further for a book on Argentina over the past century.■ A combination of rigorous historical research and a down-to-earth reflection

on Argentina’s present situation.

¿Por qué Malvinas? De la causa nacional a la guerra absurda

Why the Malvinas [Falkland Islands]? From the National Cause to the Absurd War

Rosana Guber

Breve historia contemporánea de la Argentina, 1916-2010

A Brief Contemporary History of Argentina, 1916-2010

Luis Alberto Romero

2nd ed., fce-Argentina, 2012187 pp. 10.5 × 17 cm (4.1 × 6.7 in)Series: Colección PopularSubjects: Argentinian History,Falkland Islands WarISBN: 9789505579112(paperback)

3rd ed., fce-Argentina, 2012432 pp. 16 × 23 cm (6.3 × 9 in)

Series: TezontleSubject: Argentinian History


Por qué Malvinas? suggests a rethink of one of the most controversial episodes of Argentinean history: the war with Great Britain over the Falkland Islands

that took place between April 2 and June 14, 1982. Thirty years after Argentina’s only armed conflict of the 20th century, this essay poses new questions about the old and not-so-old certainties about these islands.

rosAnA guBer has a degree in anthropology (uba), a master’s in social sciences (flacso-Buenos Aires) and in anthropology (Johns Hopkins University), and a doctorate in anthro-pology (Johns Hopkins University, US). Researcher at the Conicet (ides’ central campus), she is also the Coordinator for the master’s program in Social Anthropology at the National University of San Martín.

■ A provocative look at the meaning acquired by the conflict during discussions held a posteriori.

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Considered a classic work of historiography, this book offers a historical synthesis on the meth-

ods, developments, and theoretical approaches to the production of historical thought since classical antiquity to the most recent postmodern theories. Iggers writes on historical development in a way that sheds light on historians’ work, analyzing how it overflows into the areas of philosophy, social sciences and literary criticism.

georg g. iggers (Hamburg, 1926) is one of the world’s leading authors on historiography. Resident in the US since 1938, he has a special interest in the methodology of social sciences. He has taught at various universities in Europe and North America. In 2007 he received the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany).

■ This extended and revised edition updates the author’s earlier work on the subject.

■ Critical distance and additional texts were needed to crystallize the author’s historiographical thought.

La historiografía del siglo xx. Desde la objetividad científica al desafío posmoderno

Historiography in the Twentieth Century. From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

Georg G. Iggers

1st ed., fce-Chile, 2012280 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: HistoriaSubjects: Historiography, Social and Cultural HistoryISBN: 9789562890991(paperback)

La conquista musical de México

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rísticas técnicas y no por el papel que tiene en los grupos,

los estratos y la sociedad en conjunto. Esto ha provo-

cado que con mucha dificultad se acepte que la mú-

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e identificarse.

La originalidad de La conquista musical de México ra-

dica en que no sólo acepta que la música es un lenguaje

social sino que explica el papel que este lenguaje tuvo

en la Conquista y en la evangelización. Además, el libro

completa las conclusiones a las que han llegado otros

trabajos sobre el tema y demuestra que el resultado del

proceso de conversión no fue exclusivamente “el esplen-

dor del culto” sino un traslado del lenguaje musical y del

ritual indígena al calendario cristiano, práctica que el

gobierno español nunca prohibió porque la fiesta indí-

gena, en el contexto de la arquitectura virreinal, fue la

única manera de comprobar que la evangelización había

tenido éxito y culminado después de 1560.

Lourdes Turrent nació en la ciudad de México en 1951. Estudió

sociología en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y

música en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música y en la escuela

Vida y Movimiento, donde cursó la licenciatura en fagot. Ha sido

colaboradora de Radio UNAM, del Departamento de Música y de

la Orquesta Filarmónica de la misma institución. Es subdirec-

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This essay provides a historical account of an often-forgotten side of the evangelization

process in Mexico. The success of the new religion among the indigenous peoples of Mexico required more than just the ceremonial splendor of Catholi-cism; it called for the importation of the pre-His-panic festivities—along with their customs, tradi-tions, and music—to the Christian calendar, a process which ultimately made the Spanish evange-lization successful. Lourdes Turrent emphasizes the vital role of music as a medium of social communi-cation in this account of cultural and spiritual conquest.

lourdes turrent studied Sociology at the unam, and Mu-sic at the National Music Conservatory and at the Vida y Movimiento School, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in bassoon. She is a member of the collective Mu-sicat (iie, unam), and a researcher for the Center of Mex-ican Art.

La conquista musical de México

The Musical Conquest of Mexico

Lourdes Turrent

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 1993210 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: HistoriaSubjects: Music History,Spanish ConquestISBN: 9681639871(paperback)

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Foreign Rights 2012

This compilation of essays explores the develop-ment of 19th-century liberalism in Venezuela,

Peru, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil, and analyzes European liberalism and the specific influence of Spanish liberalism. Special emphasis is placed on the period of Latin American independence movements (1808-1825), arising from liberalism and descending from a recent colonial past. Liberal ideas spread throughout Latin America where they took root, forming the core of States, political regimes and the civil institutions in the newly independent countries. The book exam-ines the processes and results of this new sociopo-litical organization.

iVán JAksić is professor of history at the Catholic Univer-sity of Chile and program director of Stanford Universi-ty’s overseas center in Santiago.eduArdo posAdA CArBó has a PhD in modern history from Oxford University and is a departmental lecturer at the university’s Latin American Center.

Liberalismo y poder. Latinoamérica en el siglo xix

Liberalism and Power Latin America in the 19th Century

Iván Jaksić and Eduardo Posada Carbó (eds.)

■ An important guide to the understanding of individual freedom, the upholding of citizens’ rights, and the constitutional States which have been developing across Latin America.

■ The editors of Liberalismo y poder are both leading academics and historians specializing in the Latin American and North American regions.

1st ed., fce-Chile, 2011342 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)Series: HistoriaSubject: Sociocultural Approach on Latin AmericaISBN: 9789562890861(paperback)

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In this volume, Alatorre expounds upon the history of heliocentric theory in the Spanish-

speaking world–from its initial introduction by the Arabs to the end of the 18th century, when the censorship imposed by the Catholic Inquisition finally came to an end. Alatorre’s enthusiasm for the history of science and Hispanic literature—conveyed through his clear and ironic prose—makes this a compelling and straightforward text for all readers.

■ The final work by a true man of letters.

In Antonio Alatorre’s vast oeuvre, La Migraña occupies a special place as the only novel written by

this man of letters and to which he dedicated consid-erable effort. Told through an internal dialogue and from different perspectives, opening up readers’ eyes, the novel tells the story of Guillermo, a character who sets off on a journey to his adolescence; he is con-fronted with the moral precepts of religion, the discovery of sex, and life beyond the strict Catholic school education he received. A creative exercise unmasking an aspect of Alatorre’s work that is sure to captivate readers.

■ A hitherto unknown side to the work of the highly regarded philologist.

■ The author’s work is a already a landmark on the American literary landscape.

El heliocentrismo en el mundo de habla española

Heliocentric Theory in the Spanish-Speaking Tradition

Antonio Alatorre

La migraña

Migraine

Antonio Alatorre

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 201187 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in)Series: CentzontleSubject: HistoryISBN: 9786071606433 (hardcover)ISBN: 9786071606426(paperback)

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 201293 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in)Series: Letras MexicanasSubject: Mexican ProseISBN: 9786071609779(hardcover)

Antonio AlAtorre (Mexico, 1922-2010) was a renowned Mexican philologist, writer, and translator. He was head of the Literary and Linguistic Studies Center (cell) at El Colegio de México and editor and director of magazine Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica. He was a professor at unam, Princeton, and El Colegio de México. He was also member of El Colegio de México and honorary member of the Mexican Language Academy.

Literature


Literature

Six dazzling stories by Ana Basualdo that recreate the world of childhood and adolescence in the

atmosphere of the Argentinian delta, subtly using language to weave a colorful fabric, to conjure up smells and give telling details.

AnA BAsuAldo worked as a journalist for the weekly journal Panorama and, in Spain, for the magazines Triunfo, Destino, El Viejo Topo, Vogue, and for the newspapers El País and La Vanguardia.

Oldsmobile 1962

Oldsmobile 1962

Ana Basualdo

1st ed., fce-Argentina, 2012128 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: Tierra Firme / Serie del RecienvenidoSubject: Argentinian LiteratureISBN: 9789505579136(paperback)

First published in 1981, En breve cárcel is a novel in which a woman uses writing to evoke the vicissitudes of her love triangle with two other women. This story of

desire, loneliness, and love is about abandonment and describes the shifting nature of a subjectivity that manages to find a safe passage between otherness and insanity.

sylViA Molloy has taught at the universities of Princeton and Yale, and is currently professor at New York University. She is also author of Poses de Fin de Siglo (2012) and El común olvido (2011).

■ A profound exploration of desire, sexual identity, and abandonment.■ “I know of few novels about passion told with such intensity and beauty.”

Ricardo Piglia

En breve cárcel

Confines of the Heart

Sylvia Molloy


Series: Tierra Firme / Serie del RecienvenidoSubject: Argentinian Literature


Serie del Recienvenido Series of the Newcomer

This series is directed and compiled by Ricardo Piglia, author of the prologue for each of the great Argentinian literary works featured in it. Titles have been selected given their relevance in contemporary literature, for they pioneered topics and forms with an outstanding resonance in current narrative trends. Each of them an eternal newcomer, books in this series are in permanent contact with the most novel texts in the present literary scene.

■ “Imaginative, ruthless, sometimes scathing, Basualdo seems to find shelter in language when everything around her is falling apart.” Agustina Roca

■ “Originally published in 1994, Oldsmobile 1962 is a jewel of Argentinian literature that has now been rescued in Ricardo Piglia’s collection of first books. Six unusual stories, subtly interweaved.” Alicia Plante

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El mal menor is an admirably well-constructed horror story, in the best tradition of Dunsany or

Lovecraft. As Richard Piglia says, “[it has] some unforgettable characters who inhabit a terrifying world and see what others do not, and they suffer the consequences of their dark clairvoyance.”

C. e. Feiling (1961-1997) graduated in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires and taught at various universi-ties in Argentina and abroad. He worked as a translator and as a cultural correspondent for newspapers. He wrote the novels El agua electrizada (1992), Un poeta nacional (1993) and El mal menor (1996).

gerMán gArCíA is a writer and psychoanalyst who has founded several institutions and magazines in both of his professional areas. He was also a director for the magazines Los Libros and Literal.

■ “Shifting between randomness and the picaresque, this spare prose has a touch of magic.” David Viñas

■ “The story told here is the epic of being far from home, lost in the world; this is not about adolescent rebelliousness or inverting values, but an escape toward lyricism, sexuality, and fantasy.” Ricardo Piglia

Nanina

Nanina

Germán García

El mal menor

Lesser Evil

C. E. Feiling

1st ed., fce-Argentina, 2012200 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: Tierra Firme / Serie del RecienvenidoSubject: Argentinian LiteratureISBN: 9789505579259(paperback)


Series: Tierra Firme / Serie del Recienvenido

Subject: Argentinian LiteratureISBN: 9789505579037

(paperback)

■ “Deconstructing reality produces a fantasy built on perfect and perplexing shards of information and rapid-fire details.”Luis Chitarroni

■ “An entertaining horror story, original and well-written, in which the fantasy world is contrasted with reality in a struggle without equal.” Lucas Berruezo

A classic example of Argentinian narrative in the 1960’s at a time when the literary avant-garde

movements were pushing back the boundaries. Nanina is a coming-of-age novel about abandoning the small town for the big city, adolescence for adulthood; and it is about literature that no longer seeks to recover the past, but to reinvent it. The novel still possesses the same boldness that originally attracted the attention of the censors.

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Foreign Rights 2012

Julio torri (Mexico, 1899-1970) is one of the most renowned Mexican literary figures from the early-20th century. His most im-portant works include La literatura española, Ensayos y poemas, De fusilamientos, and El ladrón de ataúdes. He was awarded the Na-tional Award for Young Fiction and in 1942 he was appointed member of the Mexican Academy of Language.

Obra completa

The Complete WorksJulio Torri

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2011713 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)

Series: Letras MexicanasSubject: 20th Century Mexican

Short StoryISBN: 9786071606228

(hardcover) ISBN: 9786071606211

(paperback)

Torri’s style is outstanding in both poems and short stories, pursuing a

humble understanding of the individual within the universe rather than attempt-ing to achieve the absolute. Torri’s words seem to sink, lost in contempla-tion, before they inevitably re-emerge. Imperfection, failure, antiheroes, and the magic of life, all disclose the multiple perspectives arising from single gestures and thoughts.

■ This volume comprises the complete works of one of Mexico’s main fiction writers.

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FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA

En estos relatos está la vida diaria, situaciones y suce-sos que parecieran ser comunes. Sin embargo, gracias a la ironía, la lucidez narrativa y la mirada única de Jorge López Páez, las historias que contiene este libro se convierten en grandes momentos transformadores, no sólo para los personajes que en ellas habitan, sino también para el lector.

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el chupamirto y otros relatos

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López Páez invites us to travel through memory. His tales are a record of the adventures and the dilem-

mas of childhood. His great ability to change narrative voices and his masterful handling of diverse perspec-tives are just some of the elements that contribute to the force of reality in these three stories. A child’s perspective, in the hands of López Páez, is not only a valuable source of imagination but also the re-creation of a frame of mind that will trap anyone who ventures to enter the realm of memory.

■ López Páez is one of the most prolific narrators writing today; his crisp prose style will trap the reader in a swirl of complex characters and situations.

¡A huevo, Kuala Lumpur!

Kuala Lumpur, Fuck Yeah!

Jorge López Páez

El chupamirto y otros relatos

The Hummingbird and Other Stories

Jorge López Páez

Jorge lópez páez was born in Huatusco, Veracruz, in 1922. Upon moving to Mexico City, he studied law and earned a degree in English Literature. López Páez has worked at the unam where he has a creative writing workshop. He is also a member of the National System of Creators. López Páez has been awarded the 1993 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the 1994 International Short Story ‘La Palabra y el Hombre’ Prize, the 2003 Mazatlán Literature Prize, and the 2008 National Science and Arts prize.

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2012211 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)Series: Letras MexicanasSubject: Mexican LiteratureISBN: 9786071610713 (paperback)

A huevo, Kuala Lumpur! is about a young man finding love while confronting the difficulties

of a predominantly adult environment; the book also tackles the subject of homosexuality in Mexico in a way that is fresh, ironic, entertaining, and unique, yet without overdramatization. As a window onto homosexuality, it also shows—with an intense and moving plot—how politicians and those with power must keep up appearances due to their sexual prefer-ences. This is undoubtedly one of López Páez’ most ambitious and impressive works.

■ One of López Páez’ most ambitious works to date, this book confirms the author’s credentials as a leading Mexican writer.

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1st ed., fce-Mexico, 201095 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in)Series: CentzontleSubject: Mexican LiteratureISBN: 9786071601674(paperback)

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Los personajes de este libro, acosados por sus temores,agobiados por su falta de fe, rodeados de un aura demuerte, habitan el rostro mefistofélico de la naturalezahumana. Ubicadas en el límite entre realidad y locura—o entre la realidad y extrañas casualidades ocultasdentro de una normalidad aparente—, dibujan laencrucijada donde el mundo se vuelve inquietante altiempo que despiertan en el lector la percepción defantasmas que encarnan de pronto y nos aprisionan enel insomnio.

La escritura se despliega nítida, concisa, en pinceladas rápidasque trazan los contornos de una realidad donde las imágenesvibran cargadas de un doble o triple fondo surrealista y onírico.

ESTHER SELIGSON

De las dualidades puestas en escena por Boone se desprende unconocimiento profundo de la naturaleza humana, de sus necesi-dades y aspiraciones íntimas, sus miserias y grandezas, condiciónnecesaria para escribir buena literatura.

CLAUDIA GUILLÉN, Revista de la Universidad

Una de las voces más versátiles de la literatura mexicana dereciente cuño.

Hoja por hoja

Autor maduro y fresco: un imprescindible actual.Gatopardo

Uno de los más interesantes entre nuestros nuevos escritores.CHRISTOPHER DOMÍNGUEZ MICHAEL, Reforma

Luis Jorge Boone nació en Monclova, Coa-huila, en 1977. Autor de los libros de poe-mas Legión (2003), Galería de armas rotas(2004), Traducción a lengua extraña (2007,Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Elías Nan-dino) y Novela (2008, Premio Nacional dePoesía Joven Francisco Cervantes). Colabo-ra en Letras Libres, Luvina, Gatopardo, LaTempestad y Tierra Adentro, entre otras pu-blicaciones. Becario del Programa JóvenesCreadores del FONCA, generaciones 2004-2005 y 2008-2009, y de la Fundación paralas Letras Mexicanas, generaciones 2005-2006 y 2006-2007. Su primer libro de cuen-tos, La noche caníbal, obtuvo el Premio Na-cional de Cuento Inés Arredondo 2005.

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José Luis RivasAnte un cálido norte

Josefina VicensEl libro vacío • Los años falsos

Esther SeligsonToda la luz

Guillermo FernándezExutorio. Poesía reunida, 1964-2003

Fabio MorábitoLa ola que regresa (poesía reunida)

Guillermo ArreolaLa venganza de los pájaros

Francisco SerranoProsa del Popocatépetl

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erse de una obra literaria sin redactar una sola frase. El cor-

rector de estilo de una editorial descubre que los asesinatos

de la novela que acaba de reescribir son reales. Un escritor

fantasma y una pirómana comparten un amor basado en la

destrucción de libros. Un narrador en ciernes se enfrenta a

un bloqueo y a la ominosa pero innegable percepción de que

el mundo es un lugar insano.

Los protagonistas de estos cuentos habitan los alrededores

de la escritura sin aventurarse en el misterio de la creación:

viven sus efectos colaterales, medran en dinámicas escasa-

mente relacionadas con la Literatura, pero que estimulan en

ellos la fantasía de encarnar un destino sublime. Enamorados

de una ilusión y no de los retos del oficio, se alimentan de

glorias pasadas, de utopías ajenas, de ficciones inverosímiles,

muletas de la impostura.

Desde temprano, la narrativa de Luis Jorge Boone lo si-

tuó como un autor de notable madurez; su estilo, dúctil y

certero, sabe retratar los ámbitos del realismo, la fantasía,

el humor, la melancolía. Viaje por el terrenal calvario que

entraña la escritura (o su ausencia), Largas filas de gente rara

pasa por alto el prestigio del escritor como espíritu elevado

para mirarlo tal como es: un ser frágil y a veces desencan-

tado, presa de instintos y temores, con sus propias luces y

oscuridades, su parte trágica pero también su parte cómica.

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Luis Jorge Boone nació en Monclova, Coahui-

la, en 1977. Autor de siete poemarios: Legión

(2003), Galería de armas rotas (2004), Materi-

al de ciegos (2005), Traducción a lengua extra-

ña (2007), Novela (2008), Primavera un segun-

do (2010) y Los animales invisibles (2010); del

libro de cuentos La noche caníbal (2008); y de

la novela Las afueras (2011).

Es coautor del volumen de autobiografías

Trazos en el espejo. 15 autorretratos fugaces

(2011). Ha sido becario del Programa de

Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA y de la Fundación

para las Letras Mexicanas. Ha recibido siete

premios nacionales, entre ellos el de Cuento

Inés Arredondo 2005, el de Poesía Joven Elías

Nandino 2007, el de Ensayo Carlos Echánove

Trujillo 2009 y el de Poesía Ramón López Ve-

larde 2009.

PROPUESTA ENVIADA POR EL AUTOR FORMACIÓNLAURA ESPONDA (sin crédito)

Traslación azul, de Carlos Torres

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luis Jorge Boone was born in Monclova, Coahuila, in 1977. He is a poet, narrator, and essayist who has contributed to various magazines, such as Letras Libres, Luvina, Voz Otra and Tierra Adentro. He is the author of Legión (2003) and Galería de armas rotas (2004). He received scholarships from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (2004-2005) and from the Foundation for Mexican Literature (2005-2007). He won the 2004 Salvador Gallardo Dávalos National Prize for Young Literature for his poetry, the 2005 Inés Arredondo National Short Story Prize, and the 2006 Clemencia Isaura Poetry Prize.

The texts in this book are difficult to classify: somewhere between the genres of short story

and novella, different protagonists disrupt reality by filtering their fears, fantasies, and delirious visions. Clear concise prose without grandiose pretensions, La noche caníbal shows the author’s narrative matu-rity and his preference for fantasy and science fiction atmospheres in the vein of Jorge Luis Borges, or Philip K. Dick.

■ 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 already won awards and widespread recognition.

La noche caníbal

Cannibal Night

Luis Jorge Boone

Largas filas de gente rara

Long Queues of Strange People

Luis Jorge Boone

Largas filas de gente rara is all about writing: the protagonists of these stories share the fantasy of

achieving glory through the creative process, rather than through the writing trade. Boone’s characters are slightly disturbed and lack imagination, or play some role in the editing process; people whose work revolves around the writer’s task and yet fail miserably to be authors themselves. This shows us another side to writing: the fears, the fragility, the disenchantment with life, the good, the perverse, the human side to the creator. This series of carefully constructed and devised tales will appeal to anyone who loves a good story.

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2012119 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: Letras MexicanasSubject: Mexico’s Literary SphereISBN: 9786071609786(paperback)

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An account of the adventures of Horacio Kustos, “the last explorer of the 21st century”, a man who discovers all kinds of wonders and strange

happenings in the routine world in which we often live. The stories, contain-ing an element of the fantastic, are presented as “novels”; each one pokes fun at the various novelistic sub-genres (costumbrismo literature, detective stories, etc.) and combine to create a story told “in issues”—a parody of pamphlet literature—in which it is hinted that everything could be a product of a demented character’s delirium. Yet at the same time the quarrel between the imagination and conformity is settled. All this is depicted in a single, extraordinary, work of literature.

AlBerto ChiMAl (Estado de México, 1970) earned a master’s in Comparative Literature at the unam. He has been awarded the Premio de Cuento Benemérito de América and the Premio Nacional de Cuento del inba. His works include Gente del mundo (1998), Grey (2006), the novel Los esclavos (2009), and the short story book La ciudad imagi-nada (2009). He contributes to magazines such as Chilango and Los noveles.

■ A widely acclaimed author, Chimal’s contribution to fantasy literature is an outstanding revelation of the current state of this classic genre.

El último explorador

The Last Explorer

Alberto Chimal

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Carlos Solórzano es uno de los dramaturgos más influyentes en el teatro con-temporáneo de América Latina. Aquí se recogen varias de sus obras, en las que podemos observar una muestra —tanto teórica, con sus ensayos, como práctica, en sus piezas teatrales— de su conocimiento sobre el teatro y la dirección que éste ha tomado en la actualidad. En su ensayo Teatro latino-americano en el siglo xx recorre, de manera cronológica y a través de todos los países, las distintas corrientes que se han adoptado en los teatros nacionales; en su novela Los falsos demonios explora de manera atrayente la vida de un pobre hombre que, solitario en un hospital, decide escribir a su hijo las razo-nes y experiencias que lo llevaron a alejarse de él, y en sus piezas teatrales Las manos de Dios, El zapato, Cruce de vías y Los fantoches, aborda y analiza desde diferentes perspectivas cómo la sociedad ha comenzado a perder valo-res importantes y a hacerlos menos sin siquiera darse cuenta.

This volume offers a representative sample of one of the most original bodies of work in 20th-centu-

ry Latin American literature, and includes one essay: “Teatro latinoamericano en el siglo xx”; one novel: Los falsos demonios, and four plays: Las manos de Dios, Los fantoches, El zapato, and Cruce de vías. Together these works portray the loss of values in modern society, amply attesting to the author’s unique and outstanding mind.

CArlos solórzAno (Guatemala, 1922-Mexico City 2011) earned a PhD in Literature from the unam, and another PhD in Dramatic Art from the Sorbonne; he worked for many dif-ferent magazines and newspapers in Latin America. He re-ceived, among many awards, the National University Prize and the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize from Guatemala.

■ This sample is one of the most interesting oeuvres in contemporary Latin American drama.

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1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2011558 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: Tierra FirmeSubject: Guatemalan LiteratureISBN: 9786071605863(paperback)

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Nellie CampobelloObra reunida

Salvador ElizondoPasado anterior Efrén HernándezObras completasI. Poesía, cuento, novela Luisa Josefi na HernándezLos grandes muertos Julián MezaLa huella del conejo/La saga del conejo Carlos MontemayorLa fuga Mauricio MontielTerra cognita Octavio PazOctavio Paz en España, 1937 Gonzalo SolteroSus ojos son fuego


Este volumen presenta los ensayos que la destacada cuentis-

ta mexicana escribió sobre Jorge Cuesta, en una tentativa

por acercarse a su poesía: se trata de una producción sui ge-

neris que en el simple enfrentamiento resulta muchas veces

impenetrable. Por este hecho, Arredondo necesita puntos de

acceso, y los encuentra sumergiéndose en la obra ensayística

de Cuesta, en busca de las preocupaciones estéticas que más

íntima y turbulentamente formaron a aquella inteligencia

“lúcida y radical, apasionada por sí misma y sostenida en sí

misma; una inteligencia extraordinaria”.

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Inés Arredondo nació en 1928 en Culiacán, Sinaloa. En 1947 se inscribe en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM para seguir la li-cenciatura en fi losofía; sin embargo, en 1948 empieza la carrera de letras hispánicas. Entre 1952 y 1955 trabaja en la Biblioteca Nacional; después sustituye a Emilio Carballido en una cátedra de la Escuela de Teatro de Bellas Ar-tes. En 1957 publica “El membrillo”, su primer cuento, en la Revista de la Universidad, y por esos años colabora en la Revista Mexicana de Literatura, donde se publican varios de sus cuentos. En 1961 recibe una beca del Centro Mexicano de Escritores. Al año siguiente viaja a Montevideo, donde trabaja en la Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio. En 1962 vuelve a México y trabaja como miembro de la mesa de redacción de la Revista Mexicana de Literatura hasta su fi n en 1965. Después se de sempeña como investigadora de la Coor-dinación de Humanidades y como profesora de literatura en la UNAM. También colabora en México en la Cultura, suplemento de la revista Siempre! En 1965 publica su primer tomo de cuentos, La señal. En 1972 escribe su tesis de maes tría sobre el ensayista y poeta mexi-cano Jorge Cuesta. En 1979 se publica su se-gundo libro, Río subterráneo, que le vale el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia. En 1983 publica Opus 123, novela corta, y en 1988 su último tomo de cuentos, Los espejos. Muere el 2 de noviembre de 1989 en la Ciudad de México.

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Este volumen presenta los ensayos que la destacada cuentis-

ta mexicana escribió sobre Jorge Cuesta, en una tentativa

por acercarse a su poesía: se trata de una producción sui ge-

neris que en el simple enfrentamiento resulta muchas veces

impenetrable. Por este hecho, Arredondo necesita puntos de

acceso, y los encuentra sumergiéndose en la obra ensayística

de Cuesta, en busca de las preocupaciones estéticas que más

íntima y turbulentamente formaron a aquella inteligencia

“lúcida y radical, apasionada por sí misma y sostenida en sí

misma; una inteligencia extraordinaria”.

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Nada sobra en los cuentos de Inés Arredondo; siempre se

percibe en ellos la medida exacta y la hondura de lo que

ha nacido de la inminente necesidad de escribir. Escri-

tas con una prosa precisa, que sólo sugiere, las historias

presentan situaciones de la vida cotidiana que devienen

experiencias límite y terminan por fracturar el fl uir so-

segado y rutinario del día a día: bien pueden provocar la

suspensión temporal que dé paso a la experiencia sagra-

da, o la inmersión de los personajes en los recovecos más

hondos de la existencia.

La playa, el campo, la lejanía, envuelven los cuentos de

Inés Arredondo en un halo onírico en donde cualquier

cosa, incluso la más improbable, puede pasarles a los per-

sonajes: lo mismo parecen sufrir la terrible complejidad

de la vida, tanto del mundo interior como de las relacio-

nes interpersonales, que sobrevenirles una calma interce-

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This volume compiles all the reviews and critical studies on Jorge Cuesta written by Arredondo, the

outstanding Mexican novelist. Claudia Albarrán compiled and wrote a prologue for this collection which reveals Arredondo’s unique voice and her profound interest in authors, the state of literature, as well as aesthetical underpinnings for her intimate and turbulent intellect.

■ A complement to her popular compilation of short stories Cuentos completos (fce, 2010).

■ This volume shows a little-known but extremely rich aspect of Arredondo’s work.

Endowed with a precise, clear style that is neither timid nor indulgent, Inés Arredondo’s work reveals

an innate passion for writing. In her stories, Arredondo explores the perplexing duality of existence, where the stillness of daily life meets the absurdity of the surreal. Pushed to the limit, her characters attempt to find their way in a dreamlike world dominated by distant land-scapes and hazy images of the coast and countryside. In this diverse and rich collection, Arredondo demon-strates her mastery of the uncanny.

■ This edition includes three previously unpublished short stories: “Sonata a Quatro”, “El hombre en la noche”, and “La cruz escondida”.1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2012

247 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)Series: Letras MexicanasSubject: Mexican LiteratureISBN: 9786071609656(paperback)

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Cuentos completos

The Complete Short Stories

Inés Arredondo

inés Arredondo (Culiacán, 1928 - Mexico City, 1989) was an essayist, critic and, narrator. She studied Spanish Literature, Library Science, and Drama at the unam. She was fellow of the Mexican Center of Writers in 1961, of the Farfield Foundation in New York in 1962, and of fonca in 1989. Arredondo received the 1979 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Río Subterráneo, the 1986 Fray Bernardo de Balbuena Medal, and an honorary degree from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa in 1988.

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El estilo cuentístico de Amparo Dávila fl uye con sencillez

y detenimiento, abarcando una amplia gama de emociones

humanas. Sus personajes se enfrentan al miedo, la soledad,

la muerte y la locura, productos de una presencia indefi ni-

da e inquietante. La exploración de trastornos mentales y

emocionales en la obra narrativa de esta autora zacatecana,

así como la compleja estructuración de sus personajes, ha

contribuido a que su producción literaria se reconozca como

una de las más ricas y enigmáticas de la narrativa mexicana.

La construcción de sus personajes es un estudio de la psi-

que humana en circunstancias que a primera vista podrían

parecer rutinarias e insignifi cantes, pero que, con una visión

analítica e introspectiva como la de Amparo Dávila, se con-

vierten en viajes hacia un mundo diferente, engendrado por

la imaginación.

Esta edición reúne la producción cuentística de esta im-

portante autora. A sus ya reconocidos Música concreta, Tiempo

destrozado y Árboles petrifi cados, el Fondo de Cultura Económica

tiene el honor de agregar un libro inédito: Con los ojos abiertos.

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Potosí, donde publicó sus primeras obras

literarias, entre las que se encuentran los

poemarios Salmos bajo la luna (1950) y Me-

ditaciones a la orilla del sueño (1954). Cinco

años más tarde apareció su primer libro de

cuentos, Tiempo destrozado (FCE, 1959), al que

le siguió Música concreta (FCE, 1964). En 1966

recibió la beca del Centro Mexicano de Escri-

tores y en 1977 su libro Árboles petrifi cados

fue ganador del Premio Xavier Villaurrutia.

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Full of hidden emotions, Amparo Dávila’s poems lead towards instants of child-like expectation.

She describes unforgettable scenes from her child-hood with simplicity and accuracy, traveling through magical times and places that, when seen from a distance, awake constant feelings of loneliness and nostalgia sheltering a lost but present love. Classic themes such as yearning, loneliness, love, and death find their perfect expression in Dávila’s delicately evocative writing.

■ This new edition includes a previously unreleased collection of poems entitled El cuerpo y la noche.

In Cuentos reunidos, a complete collection of her short stories, Amparo Dávila adds to her enigmatic

and abundant narrative a previously unpublished book, Con los ojos abiertos. Dávila writes with rigor-ously formal precision—a hallmark of her unique prose style. Almost hand in hand with her characters, the reader makes a unique and unforgettable voyage through the prodigious memory and skill of one of Mexico’s most intriguing writers.

■ This collection includes a previously unpublished work, Con los ojos abiertos, a new collection of short fiction.

Poesía reunida

Collected Poems

Amparo Dávila

Cuentos reunidos

Collected Stories

Amparo Dávila

AMpAro dáVilA (Zacatecas, 1928) published her first book of poems, Salmo de la ciudad transparente, in 1950. Some of her out-standing books include the short story collections Tiempo destrozado (1959), Música concreta (1964), and Árboles petrificados (1977), and the collection of poems Salmos bajo la luna (1954). In 1997 she was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize.

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2011107 pp. 14.5 × 23 cm (5.7 × 9 in)Series: PoesíaSubject: Mexican PoetryISBN: 9786071606235(paperback)

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2009298 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)Series: Letras MexicanasSubject: Mexican Short FictionISBN: 9786071600530 (hardcover) ISBN: 9786071600547(paperback)

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El Guarén is a highly charged, fierce, harsh tale that combines the most terrible extremes of loneliness and the lack of humanity. William

Araya, the protagonist, is abandoned by the water spirit, Pincoya. During his social ascent he has only learnt how to use others for his own ends, or be used himself. Without expectations or illusions, and without forgetting its origin, El Guarén describes a social specter looming over Chile today, and frames an awareness of a political, social and economic reality affected by its needs and the fragility of the country’s constitution.

El Guarén. Historia de un guardaespaldas

El Guarén. A Bodyguard’s Story

Germán Marín

1st ed., fce-Chile, 201290 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)

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gerMán MArín (Santiago de Chile, 1934) is author of the trilogy Historia de una abso-lución familiar, consisting of the novels Círculo vicioso (Premio del Consejo del Libro y la Lectura), Las cien águilas, and La ola muerta (Premio de la Crítica de la Universi-dad Diego Portales). Winner of the Premio Municipal de Santiago for La segunda mano.

■ Critics have closely analyzed this work, paying particular attention to the narrative’s ethical and aesthetical approach.

■ Germán Marín is one of Chile’s leading writers. A literary critic, he has participated in various critical and revised anthologies.

pAulA CArrAsCo (Santiago, 1967) studied clinical psychology and linguistics at a graduate and postgraduate level in the US and Chile. She has edited poetry books in Chile and co-edited works of literary criticism in the US. She currently works as a psychotherapist, working with children and adults.

Volver. Primero estaba el mar

Return. First Was the Sea

Paula Carrasco

A story of love and loneliness, a real and imaginary voyage back home. A young girl called Greta, vulnerable after her brother’s death, decides to return to the

island where she grew up. There she will confront her past and her parents, whom she has not seen since she and her brother tried to flee from the island. With an uncommunicative mother and an enigmatic father, these children’s lives have a psychic reality governed by isolation and questions about the nature of absence, origins, and identity.

1st ed., fce-Chile, 2012142 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: Tierra FirmeSubject: Latin American LiteratureISBN: 9789562891011(paperback)

■ Volver. Primero estaba el mar employs a narrative form that is compelling in its exploration of its characters’ complex psychologies.

■ The author draws on her professional experience to craft a story that examines the human condition, developing and translating it into a literary form.

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Gonzalo Rojas siempre sostuvo que escribiría un solo libro en su vida: éste, que es la suma de todos sus poemas y, al mismo tiempo, el único de su autoría que él no conoció. “Pues de veras yo mismo soy mi libro inconcluso, levemente camuflado debajo de otros veinte volúme-nes veloces que son máscaras de lo mismo, personas de la misma persona que, ya de suyo quiere decir máscara en latín clásico”, afirmaba Gonzalo Rojas hacia la mitad de su viaje poético. No concebía su obra como una casa hecha de ladrillos que fueran acumulándose, uno tras otro, uno encima de otro. Su casa de Chillán, equiparable a un tren en marcha, daba la ilusión de fugarse hacia adelante — y hacia atrás— como si no existiese un muro al fondo del jardín de rosas. Por lo tanto, este libro único, titulado Íntegra, es algo más que una con-fluencia, algo más que una simple recopilación y una rigurosa ordenación de poemas escritos a lo largo de noventa y cinco años de vida y medio siglo de publicaciones: es un libro nuevo que sin duda sorprenderá a los lectores más próvidos del poeta nacido en el viento de Lebu.

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Gonzalo Rojas (Lebu, Chile, 1917 - 2011) estudió derecho y literatura en el Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile. Fue jefe de redacción de la revista Antártica en Santiago y profesor en la Universidad de Concepción. Formó parte, entre 1938 y 1943, del grupo surrealista creador de la revista Mandrágora. A partir de 1958 y hasta 1962, organizó los Congresos de Escritores en Concepción, que llegaron areunir a lo mejor de las letras latinoamericanas. Asimismo, se desempeñó como diplomático en China y en Cuba. Tras el golpe de Estado en Chile en 1973, vivió exiliado y ejerció la docencia en Universidades de Alemania, Venezuela y Estados Unidos. En 1994 ganó la Beca Guggenheim y regresó a su país natal, donde radicó hasta su muerte. Entre sus principales publicaciones se encuentran: La miseria del hombre (1948), Contra la muerte (1964), Oscuro (1977), 50 poemas (1980), El Alumbrado y otros poemas (1987), Antología del aire (1991), 80 veces nadie (1997), Metamorfosis de lo mismo (2000), Hombre es baile, mujer es igualmente baile (2001), Del loco amor (2004) y Con arrimo y sin arrimo (2010). Su obra poética es con-siderada una de las más ricas y originales del siglo XX; ha sido traducida al inglés, alemán, francés, portu-gués, ruso, italiano, rumano, sueco, chino, turco y griego, y le valió al poeta numerosos reconocimientos, entre los que se cuentan el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía (1992), el Premio Octavio Paz de Poesía y Ensayo y el Premio José Hernández (ambos en 1998) y el Premio Cervantes de Literatura en 2003.

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Qedeshím Qedeshóth takes its name from one of Gonzalo Rojas’ most widely read poems. This

anthology compiles his best poetry and includes his last poems and more than a dozen previously unknown texts. Through more than 200 poems, Qedeshím Qedeshóth plunges the reader into Rojas’ vast imagina-tion, where the classic and the avant-garde mingle and breathe life into some of most consistent poetic works in contemporary literature in Spanish.

■ The best of Rojas’ poetry along with 12 previously unpublished pieces.

These two volumes contain the complete works of the Chilean poet, widely renowned in the Span-

ish-speaking world and considered to be an heir of the 20th-century literary avant-garde movements. Included here are the works: La miseria del hombre (1948), Con-tra la muerte (1964), Oscuro (1977), Transtierro (1979), Del relámpago (1981), 50 poemas (1982), El alumbrado (1986), Antología personal (1988), Materia de testamento (1988), Antología de aire (1991), Deso-cupado lector (1990), Las hermosas (1991), Zumbido (1991), Río turbio (1996) and América es la casa y otros poemas (1998), among others.

■ Considered to be among the richest and most original poetry of the twentieth century.

■ Rojas’ work has been translated into English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, Chinese, Turkish, and Greek.

Qedeshím Qedeshóth

Qedeshím Qedeshóth

Gonzalo Rojas

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Integral. Collected Poetry

Gonzalo Rojas

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1st ed., fce-Chile, 2009348 pp. 14.5 × 23 cm(5.7 × 9 in)Series: PoesíaSubject: Chilean PoetryISBN: 9789562890793(paperback)

gonzAlo roJAs (1917-2011) studied law and literature. He was editor of the journal Antártica. Following the coup in Chile in 1973, he went into exile and taught at universities in Germany, Venezuela, and the US. In 1994 he won a Guggenheim Fellowship and returned to his native country, where he lived until his death. He won the 1992 Queen Sofia Prize for Poetry , the 1998 Octa-vio Paz Prize for Poetry and Essay, and the 2003 Cervantes Prize for Literature .

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NAVEGAN COMO BRISA EN EL VIENTO Y LLENAN DE PESAR

A QUIENES VIVEN ATADOS A ESTE MUNDO. DOLORES CASTRO

APREHENDE EN SUS POEMAS LOS DESTELLOS AMABLES

Y CRUELES DE LA VIDA. EN ELLOS REFLEJA LAS PASIONES

MÁS SALVAJES, ABATIDAS SOBRE LA PÁGINA QUE LAS

CONTIENE: LA VIDA MISMA QUEBRANTADA. SU PENA

Y DOLOR, ANTOLOGADA AQUÍ POR BENJAMÍN BARAJAS,

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in the monumental, as well as minimal possibilities, in reflective surfaces that allow for the arduous task of self-reflection. In the sea, the wind, the sky, the trees with their trunks, branches and fruits, the poet discovers and shapes her own interior landscape, where being alive is, at once, a cause for great joy and melancholy.

dolores CAstro (Aguascalientes, 1923) is a renowned poet and a distinguished liter-ary critic who teaches at the unam. She was part of the group ‘Los Ocho Poetas’ [The Eight Poets], alongside Rosario Castellanos, Efrén Hernández, Alejandro Avilés and Roberto Cabral del Hoyo, among others.

■ This new compilation includes the previously unpublished collection of poems, Asombraluz.

Viento quebrado. Poesía reunida

Wind Faltered. Collected Poetry

Dolores Castro

This six-part collection includes forty-five re-markably musical poems which reflect youth as

the flower of life, the inevitable farewells, love in its various forms, the immense sea and unexplainable landscapes: themes recurring throughout poetry for hundreds of years, and also present here thanks to Salvador Elizondo’s exquisite poetry and skill as a writer.

sAlVAdor elizondo (Ciudad de México, 1932-2006) studied Art in Mexico City and Literature in Ottawa, Cambridge, the Sorbonne University, Peruggia, and the unam. Founding fellow of El Colegio de México, an the Ford Guggenheim Fundation (1968-1969). He received the 1965 Xavier Villau-rrutia Prize for his novel Farabeuf o la crónica de un in-stante, and the 1990 National Literature Prize.

■ A completely new collection of poems.■ The quality of his writing will undoubtedly make

this collection a classic.

Contubernio de espejos

Conspiracy of Mirrors

Salvador Elizondo


Series: PoesíaSubject: Mexican PoetryISBN: 9786071602480

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Mario Merlino was a highly erudite and reserved writer who was primar-ily a translator (from English, Portuguese, French, and Italian). But his

soul—which he saw as inseparable from his body—was possessed by poetry. Merlino’s writing reveals clues to our time and we can connect to him in startling and lucid ways. He confronts uncertainty and uses poetry to de-nounce the fundamentalist temptations of other social discourses.

MArio Merlino (1948-2009) earned a living as a translator and he was the recipient of the National Translation Prize of Spain in 2004, but after his death we can look back and see that poetry was his lifeblood. Through his translations and essays, his work as a performing artist and actor, and his commitment to addressing the problems of ho-mosexuality and exile, Merlino was able to create first-rate poetry.

■ Merlino’s poetry is an exercise in seduction that could be read as an encouragement to live without restrictions.

■ Mario Merlino is a surprising poet: he writes all kinds of poems with baroque simplicity or in a simply baroque style.

Voces comunes y otros poemas

Common Voices and Other Poems

Mario Merlino

1st ed., fce-Spain, 2012298 pp. 14.5 × 23 cm (5.7 × 9 in)Series: PoesíaSubject: Hispanic LiteratureISBN: 9788437506739(paperback)

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ROMPEOLAS ES UN RECORRIDO POR LOS SENDEROS DE LA CREACIÓN

POÉTICA DE ANGELINA MUÑIZ-HUBERMAN, DONDE EL TIEMPO

Y LA EXPERIENCIA, LA PÉRDIDA Y EL AMOR, LA PATRIA Y EL EXILIO,

ADQUIEREN MATICES DE INIGUALABLE INTENSIDAD A PARTIR

DE LA SINGULAR VISIÓN DE SU AUTORA. JUNTO A LA OBRA HASTA

HOY CONOCIDA SE INCLUYE UN POEMARIO INÉDITO QUE CIERRA

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In Rompeolas, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman reflects on identity, memory, loneliness, loss, and love, all from her unique perspective as a permanent

outsider. Her work reveals the thoughts of an exile and the sense of empti-ness always lying behind her actions. The author finally discovers who she is through poetry, which reflects her individual identity and the conflict that arises when it attempts to relate with everything foreign to it. Loneliness and death become the answers to the author’s never-ending questions, which she finds as a traveler who never finds a place to rest.

AngelinA Muñiz-huBerMAn (Hyeres, France, 1936) is a poet, writer, lecturer and translator. Author of a rich and varied work that includes novels, poetry, and essays, she is part of the “Mexican Hispanic” generation of Spanish exiles. Muñiz-Huberman has been awarded the 1985 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and the 1993 Premio Internacio-nal de Novela Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, among others.

■ An oustanding collection of poems, with a prologue by prize-winning writer Adolfo Castañón.

Rompeolas. Poesía reunida

Breakwater. Collected Poems

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman



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DETRÁS DE LAS PALABRAS PROFERIDAS.

PURA LÓPEZ COLOMÉ HA CONCEBIDO LA PALABRA COMO

UNA ‘CLAVE DE ACCESO’ AL INTERIOR DE LO NOMBRADO.

PUERTA QUE SE ABRE PARA VER EN EL ACTO DE SU PROPIA

APERTURA EL OJO DE UNA LLAVE HACIA SÍ MISMA, LA PALABRA

(O PASSWORD) HA SALIDO DE SÍ: HA ENTRADO EN MATERIA.”

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purA lópez ColoMé (Mexico City, 1952) is a professor in Hispanic Literature at the unam. Highlights of her work include El sueño del cazador (1985), Un cristal en otro (1990), Aurora (1995), and Tragaluz de noche (2003), all published by fce. The North American poet Forrest Gander translated an anthology of her poetry that was published in a bilingual edition by Graywolf Press in 2002, under the title of No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura López Colomé. A new selection of her poetry, Mother Tongue, was published in 2006 in Ireland also in a bilingual edition by Arlen House, in a translation by the poet Lorna Shaughnessy.

■ Pura López Colomé is one of the most highly regarded poets and literary critics today; she was awarded the 2007 Villaurrutia Prize.

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In this book, López Colomé once again returns to her poetic obsessions: infancy, loneliness,

abandonment, and how these are felt through the body, soul, and mind. A selection of poems bearing all the force of a gaze sensitive to the soul and to the acts of life, and of man, internalized and poetically reflected.

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Digo yo no sólo es una frase que refiere a una opinión; para Tomás Segovia es una frase que guarda relación con el mundo real. El lenguaje, la filosofía, la historia, la política son parte del complejo sistema en el cual el ser humano se encuentra inmerso. Con un discurso que se mueve entre el ensayo, la crónica y la poética, el autor nos guía a través de diversas teorías, en las que nuestra sociedad está basada.

El yo (tanto palabra como sujeto) cobra vitalidad al contener los enunciados de todos los que han dicho al-guna vez “ahora” y “aquí”. Nombres como los de Hjelmslev, Barthes, Ricœur, quienes han pensado el len-guaje no como un sistema de reglas, sino como un ente vivo que, igual que una persona, está en constante cam-bio, sirven de apoyo para que Segovia adoctrine a sus lectores sobre la realidad que muchas veces “puede eva-porarse en el camino”.

Esta compilación de ensayos y notas permiten al es-critor (y al lector, una vez que da vida nuevamente a las palabras) reflexionar sobre diversas cuestiones: la lite-ratura, la ciencia, el arte, la historia, la verdad.

TOMÁS SEGOVIA (1927), poeta y escritor español, ha ejercido

diversos oficios en distintos ámbitos: cine, radio, traducción,

corrección, interpretación, publicación y difusión cultural en

diversas instituciones (UNAM, Fondo de Cultura Económica,

El Colegio de México, entre otras). Dirigió la Revista Mexicana

de Literatura de 1958 a 1963. Ha sido galardonado con los premios

Xavier Villaurrutia (1972), Magda Donato (1974), Alfonso X

de Traducción (1982, 1983 y 1984), Octavio Paz (2000), Juan

Rulfo (2005), Extremadura a la Creación (2007) y Federico

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These essays are written in a voice that speaks from a personal perspective that perceives

language as a living entity in constant transforma-tion. Digo yo is an invitation to reflect—through essays on literary, scientific, artistic, historical, philosophical, and political matters—upon what makes us human. This volume also features a series of interviews that elaborate on the ideas and beliefs of the author.

toMás segoViA (Spain, 1927 - Mexico City, 2012) was a Mexican poet born in Spain. He founded the magazine Presencia, and wrote for Plural, and Vuelta magazines. He was director of Revista Mexicana de Literatura. He has received the 2005 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, among many others.

■ Includes a selection of interviews with Tomás Segovia.

Digo yo

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Tomás Segovia

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Desde su título, esta colección de ensayos de Guillermo Sheridan sugiere su interés por las formas que la vida de un autor adopta para entrometerse en su literatura. En la vena de sus anteriores trabajos críticos, Sheridan practica una curiosidad ávida sobre ese complejo comer-

cio entre vivir y escribir. Se ha hablado del doble en la obra literaria; otros hablan de la vida partida en dos que puede llevar un escritor; los menos postulan una contradicción entre la vida y la obra, si no es que su negación. Estos ensayos no se pronuncian exclusivamente por ninguna de estas posturas; antes nos muestran la naturaleza indivisible y enig-mática de sus mutuos desarrollos: el autor en la obra y viceversa. El ejercicio crítico se fortalece por tratar, casi en su totalidad, con los Contemporáneos, el grupo de poetas y críticos que redefinieron la modernidad intelectual de México, entre otras cosas, por su manera de “vivir” la literatura. Señales debidas —que recoge ensayos, prólogos y conferencias, revisados y actualizados, así como algunos inéditos— aporta así el siguiente trazo a la larga línea de trabajos críticos sobre poesía mexicana. Un seguimiento de relieve no sólo para su autor, o para Novo, Villaurrutia, Owen o Gorostiza, entre otros, sino para nos–otros, los lectores, que entendemos a los Contemporáneos como la columna vertebral de la inteligencia poética mexicana del siglo XX.

Guillermo Sheridan (1950) ha sido profesor de literatura lo mismo en secundarias y preparato-rias que en la Universidad Iberoamericana, la Uni versidad Nacional Autónoma de México y El Colegio de México. Desde 1980 se dedica a es-tudiar la poesía mexicana moderna en el Centro de Estudios Literarios de la UNAM. Ha escrito di-versos prólogos y ediciones críticas de la obra de los Contem poráneos y de López Velarde. En 2004 publicó Poeta con paisaje: ensayos sobre la vida de Octavio Paz. Además de su trabajo como investigador, Sheridan ha publicado crónicas, ensayos y comentarios sobre la actualidad polí-tica, social y educativa en Vuelta, la Revista de la Universidad y Letras Libres.

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Mexico’s literary panorama during the first half of the 20th century was exceptionally rich.

Guillermo Sheridan carefully balances rigorous literary research with anecdotes and memories in order to create an accurate portrait of already legend-ary writers—José Juan Tablada, Alfonso Reyes, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, and Salvador Novo, among many others—providing new approaches to their aesthetic concerns and life experiences, and bringing back to life experiences and an entire era of Mexican culture.

guillerMo sheridAn (Mexico, 1950) is a professor and re-searcher at the unam. Some of his books on Mexican Litera-ture include Los contemporáneos ayer (1985), Índices de con-temporáneos 1923-1931 (1988), Frontera norte (1988), and Cartas de Copilco y otras postales (1994). He received the 1989 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for the biography Un corazón adicto: la vida de Ramón López Velarde.

■ These texts by Guillermo Sheridan examine the relationship between personal life and creative writing.

Señales debidas

Due Signals / Signs of lives

Guillermo Sheridan

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2011299 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)Series: Vida y Pensamiento de MéxicoSubjects: Literary Studies, Mexican LiteratureISBN: 9786071605627(paperback)

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This essay compiles a wide range of interpreta-tions, theories and translations on Mayan

literature since our earliest contact with it until the present day, and it gives a broad but concise panorama of one of the most fascinating Central American civilizations. Written by a leading authority in the field, this work sets out to systematize the legacy left by the Mayas in written form, and gives a general analysis of its literature, filling a gap in the Fondo's Breviarios series.

MerCedes de lA gArzA (Mexico City, 1939) holds a PhD in History from the unam. She is member of the Mexican Soci-ety of Anthropology; she has been director and coordinator of the Center for Maya Studies of the Philological Research Institute and director of the National Museum of Anthro-pology, inah. A Researcher Emeritus of the National System of Researchers, she has been awarded the 1995 National Uni-versity Prize. Her publications include: El universo sagrado de la serpiente entre los mayas (1984), Rostros sagrados del mun-do maya (1998), and Los mayas, tres mil años de civilización (1992).

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Este ensayo recopila las interpretaciones, teorías y traducciones que se han hecho de la literatura maya, desde los primeros acercamientos a nuestros días y da un amplio pero conciso panorama de la civilización centroamericana. La autora, probablemente una de las académicas más reconocidas en el tema, presenta para el gran público este libro que cubre un vacío en la colección Breviarios del Fondo.

MERCEDES DE LA GARZA CAMINO (1939) realizó sus estudios

universitarios en Letras Hispánicas e Historia en la Facultad

de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM, miembro de la Asociación de

Historiadores Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, Latinoamérica;

Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, España; Sociedad Mexicana

de Antropología, México; Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de las

Religiones, afiliada a la Sociedad Internacional de Historia de las

Religiones, entre otras asociaciones. Ha sido directora y coordina-

dora del Centro de Estudios Mayas del Instituto de Investigaciones

Filológicas, Directora del Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH,

Conaculta, SEP y becaria de la UNAM. Investigadora emérita del

sistema nacional de investigadores; entre sus distinciones y

reconocimientos se encuentran: Graduada con mención hono-

rífica en maestría y doctorado, Medalla Gabino Barreda (1983),

Premio Universidad Nacional (1995), diversas distinciones del

PRIDE y el PREPRAC, entre otros. Entre sus escritos más destacados

se encuentran: El universo sagrado de la serpiente entre los mayas

(1984), Rostros sagrados del mundo maya (1998), Los mayas, tres

mil años de civilización (1992).

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Mayan Literature

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■ The most comprehensive synthesis of Mayan literature to date.

■ De la Garza is a must-read author for Mayan studies.

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es una de las ocupaciones más asiduas del ser humano,

pues no sólo le ha permitido comprender los fenómenos

naturales para utilizarlos en su favor o anticipar algún peli-

gro; también ha hecho posible la concepción de nuevos

mundos que han quedado plasmados tanto en canciones y

pinturas como en teorías científicas.

Esta obra reúne una serie de ensayos que exploran las

relaciones entre dos formas de conocer el mundo: la litera-

tura y la ciencia. Escritores que hablan sobre ciencia, cientí-

ficos que se expresan a través de la literatura, al final “todos

los investigadores están obligados a escribir”, dice el autor, y

es precisamente la escritura el eslabón entre estas dos pro-

fesiones que pueden parecer lejanas entre sí y que esta obra

expone como dos facetas de una misma vida.

Carlos Chimal es escritor y divulgador de la ciencia. Ha publicado

libros de fi cción como Cuatro bocetos, Escaramuza, Lengua

de pájaros y En busca de Argelia. También ha explorado

las relaciones de la imaginación científi ca con el pensamiento

artístico y sus repercusiones sociales en El viajero científi co,

Los brazos de Venus, Cazadores en el horizonte, Nubes en el cielo

mexicano y Las neuronas de Shakespeare.

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CArlos ChiMAl studied chemistry and writes fiction; he masterfully combines both disciplines in texts that delight wide audiences. His texts are regularly published in “Paisaje de la Ciencia”, a column in the magazine Vuelta. He has published more than twenty books, including La escalera del Universo, El viajero científico, Armonía y saber, Caza-dores en el horizonte, and Las neuronas de Shakespeare.

Futurama. Literatura y ciencia a través del tiempo

Futurama. Literature and Science throughout the Course of Time

Carlos Chimal

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2012218 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in)Series: Colección PopularSubjects: Literature, Popularization of ScienceISBN: 9786071609304(paperback)

In these short essays, Carlos Chimal explores the multiple connections between science and literature,

and elucidates the fact that neither of the two would have survived without the creation of languages. This book offers a panorama of fictional works imbued with scientific ideas throughout the course of history, and may be taken as a guide for those in search of new literary worlds. It also considers the work of authors who have discovered hidden ties between scientific imagination and literary analysis.

■ A comprehensive introduction to science through literature.

■ The work is a proof of Chimal’s vast knowledge in the field’s bibliography; it provides a wealth of suggested further reading and references.

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2012158 pp. 11 × 17 cm (4.3 × 6.7 in)Series: BreviariosSubject: Mayan LiteratureISBN: 9786071610041(paperback)

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Diccionario críticode la literatura

mexicana(1955-2005)

En la portada: Retrato de Octavio Paz,de Alberto Gironella, 1983.

OTROS TÍTULOS DEL AUTOREN EL FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA

Antología de la narrativa mexicanadel siglo XX, tomo I

Antología de la narrativa mexicanadel siglo XX, tomo II

El Diccionario crítico de la literatura mexicana (1955–2005)

es, al mismo tiempo, una antología personal y un diccio-

nario de autor. Reúne buena parte de los ensayos y de las

reseñas que Christopher Domínguez Michael ha dedicado a

la literatura mexicana durante los últimos 25 años. Pero

es, también, una obra de consulta expresamente diseñada

como tal, con cerca de 150 entradas que presentan e in-

terrogan a igual número de escritores que han escrito y

publicado poesía, novela, cuento y ensayo en México entre

1955 y 2005. De la A de Abreu Gómez a la Z de Zaid, en

este diccionario el lector encontrará, alfabética o azarosa-

mente, a nuestros maestros modernos y contemporáneos,

en un libro que lo mismo registra el legado de los escritores

que nacieron en la centuria antepasada que a algunos de los

nuevos poetas y narradores. El testimonio de Domínguez

Michael, originado en las páginas de las revistas y los

suplementos literarios del siglo XX, no se escribió en una

torre de marfil ni ha pasado por la academia universitaria,

pero acaso sea uno de los más amplios y consistentes en

la historia republicana de las letras mexicanas. Sólo la

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Christopher Domínguez Michael nació el21 de junio de 1962 en la ciudad de México.Crítico literario e historiador, su obra haencontrado un sitio destacado en la vidacultural de México desde la aparición deAntología de la narrativa mexicana del sigloXX (FCE, 1989 y 1991). Entre sus libros deensayos se cuentan La utopía de la hospita-lidad (1993), Tiros en el concierto. Literaturamexicana del siglo V (1997), Servidumbre ygrandeza de la vida literaria (1998), La sa-biduría sin promesa. Vida y letras del sigloXX (2001) y Toda suerte de libros paganos(2001). En 1992 compiló la Obra selectade José Vasconcelos y en 1997 publicó unanovela, William Pescador. En 2005 recibióel Premio Xavier Villaurrutia por Vida defray Servando (2004), una biografía delfraile y teólogo revolucionario novohis-pano. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional deCreadores de Arte desde 1993 y en 2006 lefue otorgada la Beca Guggenheim. Partici-pó en el consejo de redacción de la revistaVuelta entre 1989 y 1998. Actualmente esmiembro del consejo editorial de LetrasLibres y columnista cultural en el perió-dico Reforma.

Christopher Domínguez Michael nació el21 de junio de 1962 en la ciudad de México.Crítico literario e historiador, su obra haencontrado un sitio destacado en la vidacultural de México desde la aparición deAntología de la narrativa mexicana del sigloXX (FCE, 1989 y 1991). Entre sus libros deensayos se cuentan La utopía de la hospita-lidad (1993), Tiros en el concierto. Literaturamexicana del siglo V (1997), Servidumbre ygrandeza de la vida literaria (1998), La sa-biduría sin promesa. Vida y letras del sigloXX (2001) y Toda suerte de libros paganos(2001). En 1992 compiló la Obra selectade José Vasconcelos y en 1997 publicó unanovela, William Pescador. En 2005 recibióel Premio Xavier Villaurrutia por Vida defray Servando (2004), una biografía delfraile y teólogo revolucionario novohis-pano. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional deCreadores de Arte desde 1993 y en 2006 lefue otorgada la Beca Guggenheim. Partici-pó en el consejo de redacción de la revistaVuelta entre 1989 y 1998. Actualmente esmiembro del consejo editorial de LetrasLibres y columnista cultural en el perió-dico Reforma.

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Christopher doMínguez MiChAel was born in Mexico City in 1962. He is a literary critic, historian of ideas, and novelist. He is a columnist and contributor to such prestigious magazines as Proceso, Vuelta, Letras Libres and “El Ángel”, cultural supplement of the newspaper Reforma. He has received the Guillermo Rousset Banda Na-tional Prize for Literary Essays and Political Criticism, and the 2004 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize.

■ Christopher Domínguez’s reputation as a Mexican literary critic makes this a must-read compilation.

Diccionario crítico de la literatura mexicana (1955-2005)

A Critical Dictionary of Mexican Literature (1955-2005)Christopher Domínguez Michael


Series: Letras MexicanasSubject: Mexican Literature

ISBN: 9789681684785(hardcover)


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The author, one of Mexico’s most important literary critics, compiles and organizes his

writings on Mexican literature in this volume, which spans a 50-year period beginning with the publication of Juan Rulfo’s groundbreaking work, Pedro Páramo. This dictionary includes writers born after 1955 and those who died after that year and had work published between 1955 and 2005. It incorporates two works: a personal anthology and a dictionary of authors. For the former, Domínguez Michael offers a selection of previously published literary extracts, essays, and complete articles, and for the latter—a true anthology from the viewpoint of a literary critic—he pledges his allegiance to freedom of selection in the interpretative game, and to the pleasure of establishing an order based both on routine and on the surprises of the alphabet.

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Philosophy

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The Philosophy of Redemption is the seminal work by German philosopher Philipp Mainländer, whose approach varied radically from that of Kant and

Schopenhauer and exerted a strong influence on Nietzsche and Cioran. The author’s vision on the origin of the universe argues, from an ontological perspec-tive, for the supremacy of non-existence over existence. Thus the universe could not have been a divine creation but is instead the result of the collapse of divine will. Mainländer’s philosophy, seen as a deconstruction of the universe, analyzes man’s finite dimension and the inevitable subordination to the human condition.

philipp MAinländer (1841-1876) studied Anthropology, Political History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy. He finished the first volume of The Philosophy of Redemption in 1874 and one year later, in Offenbach, he completed the second volume.

■ This anthology preserves the integrity of the author’s thought and is the first translation of his work into Spanish.

■ This translation is part of a doctoral thesis that brings up to date and discusses the philosophical relevance of a man whose thinking has remained relatively unknown and neglected.

An in-depth, multifaceted study of the Mexican War of Independence, this volume not only

reflects on the circumstances that brought about the war, but also attempts to explain the historical attitudes produced by it decades after the war’s apparent completion. Luis Villoro characterizes this revolutionary movement as the result of divergent currents that originated in widely differing layers of society, departing from the usual analysis which considers this war as a struggle between opposing political tendencies.

luis Villoro holds a PhD in Philosophy from unam, where he has been a professor since 1948. He has been a member of El Colegio Nacional and chairman of the Mexican Associa-tion of Philosophy. He also received the prestigious Universi-dad Nacional Award in 1989.

■ An essential study on the history of Mexico’s independence.

■ New revised and updated edition.

Filosofía de la redención

The Philosophy of Redemption

Philipp Mainländer

El proceso ideológico de la revolución de independencia

The Ideological Process of the Mexican War of Independence

Luis Villoro

1st ed., fce-Chile, 2012140 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)

Series: FilosofíaSubjects: Philosophic

Anthropology, Philosophy ISBN: 9789562890922

(paperback)

2nd ed., fce-Mexico, 2010248 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: FilosofíaSubject: Mexican HistoryISBN: 9786071603098(paperback)

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Politics

A compendium of studies by leading specialists on Latin America and the Caribbean who have

tackled the issue of integration in this region. These works offer a valuable insight into the history of Latin American integration, the complexities of the process, the global presence of these countries and the important contributions of Latin American thought in creating a critical vision rooted in the realities and challenges of their development and integration.

Integración latinoamericana y caribeña. Política y economía

Latin American and Caribbean Integration Politics and Economy

José Briceño Ruiz, Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and Ángel M. Casas Gragea (eds.)

1st ed., fce-Spain, 2012263 pp. 16.5 × 23 cm (6.5 × 9 in)

Series: EconomíaSubjects: Economic Integration,

Latin American PoliticsISBN: 9788437506586

(paperback)

José BriCeño ruiz is professor at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of the Andes in Venezuela.Andrés riVArolA puntigliAno is senior lecturer on International Relations at the Department of Economic His-tory at Stockholm University.ángel MAríA CAsAs grAgeA coordinated cooperation projects at the Spanish Agency for International Develop-ment Cooperation (aecid) and has been researcher at the Autonomous Metropolitan University - Iztapalapa Campus in Mexico.

■ Various generations of scholarship on Latin America gathered in one publication.■ Includes a prologue by Aldo Ferrer and an epilogue by Alberto Methol Ferré, both leading experts

in the field of Latin American development and integration.

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Science

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With scientific rigor and a clear and entertaining style, Shahen Hacyan deals with the subject of interstellar travel, and summarizes the

various theories about the possible existence of life elsewhere in the uni-verse, including the modern myth about ufos and their extraterrestrial origin, to finish with a discussion of how myths are psychologically fascinating for people. Hacyan provides readers with basic information so they can judge the feasibility of interstellar travel and stories of visitors from outer space.

shAhen hACyAn studied Physics at the unam and has undergone doctoral studies at the University of Sussex in England. He is a full-time researcher at the unam, and writer of novels and books related to popularization of science such as El descu-brimiento del universo, Los hoyos negros y la curvatura del espacio-tiempo [Discovery of the Universe. Black Holes and the Spacetime Curvature], and Relatividad para prin-cipiantes [Relativity for Beginners].

■ A book that demystifies several pseudoscientific beliefs.■ Hacyan is one of the most prolific and acclaimed writers in the field

of popular science.

An introductory text on the concept of “Scientific Revolution.” The first part explores the controversy between those who support the idea of the

continuity of scientific development (Sarton, Whewell, Dijksterhuis) and those who perceive, in the history of science, a succession between periods of stability and periods of conceptual revolution (Kuhn, Duhem, Koyré). The second part studies the cases of particular scientists such as Aristotle, Galen, Descartes, and Newton, who have been considered the protagonists of differ-ent scientific revolutions.

ruy pérez tAMAyo studied medicine and specialized in pathology. He is now an emeri-tus professor and chairman of unam’s Experimental Medicine Department at Mexico’s General Hospital. He was awarded the 1974 Premio Nacional de Ciencias, and is mem-ber of the Mexican Academy of the Spanish Language and of El Colegio Nacional.

■ An accurate and updated introduction to science from a historical perspective.■ Includes an extensive bibliography and a name index that make the work a

useful tool for researchers.

La Revolución científica

The Scientific Revolution

Ruy Pérez Tamayo

Ovnis y viajes interestelares, ¿realidad o fantasía?

UFOs and Interstellar Travel, Reality or Fantasy?

Shahen Hacyan

1st ed., fce-Mexico, 2011146 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: La Ciencia para TodosSubjects: Astrophysics, Science PopularizationISBN: 9786071608482(paperback)


Series: BreviariosSubjects: Scientific Revolutions,

Science HistoryISBN: 9786071609748

(paperback)

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Sociology

The author critically reviews different approaches to the subject of Multicul-turalism, from Postmodernism to the transition of interculturality, and

proposes an anthropological approach to the study and treatment of this subject. He also sets out an ethnographic methodology for the study of inter-cultural education. Dietz does not merely present the theory and practice of interculturality in different educational systems; he addresses important contemporary considerations of the subject, and analyzes ‘interculturalization’ from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives.

gunther dietz was born in Germany, he earned a PhD in Anthropology from the Uni-versity of Hamburg. A fieldwork expert, Dietz has studied interculturality, ethnic move-ments, ngos and multiculturalism. His recent publications include Islam in Education in European Countries (2009) and Pluriculturalidad y educación (2010).

■ A key work for educationalists and anthropologists that takes a comprehensive and erudite critical approach to intercultural education.

■ Already a classic in Spain, this essential book is a bridge between Education and Anthropology.

Memorias y representaciones is the first volume of a trilogy that analyzes the consequences of geno-

cidal events from an Argentinian perspective. A rigorous and enlightening study that approaches the topic through the disciplines of Neurology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Social Sciences, and the arts to explore the ways in which memory processes can affect how iden-tity is formed.

dAniel Feierstein is a sociologist with a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. He directs the Center of Genocide Studies and the master’s program on cultural diver-sity at the National University of Tres de Febrero.

■ Daniel Feierstein is a leading authority on genocide studies.

■ This work analyzes “critically and rigorously the consequences of genocide on subjectivities and the social fabric.”

Multiculturalismo, interculturalidad y diversidad en educación Una aproximación antropológica

Multiculturalism, Interculturality, and Education An Anthropological Approach

Gunther Dietz

Memorias y representaciones

Memories and Representations

Daniel Feierstein

1st ed., fce-Argentina, 2012209 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)Series: SociologíaSubjects: Genocide, memoriesISBN: 9789505579204(paperback)

2nd ed., fce-Mexico, 2012279 pp. 13.5 × 21 cm (5.3 × 8.3 in)

Series: Educación y PedagogíaSubjects: Multiculturalism, Culture


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