Espacios y tiempos de lo fantástico

Cuando Francisco Bramón publica la novela pastoril Los Sirgueros de la Virgen sin original pecado (México, 1620) ya la Nueva España contaba con otro precedente ilustre en el género: Siglo de Oro en las selvas de Erífile (1608) de Bernardo de Balbuena. Ahora bien, la intencionalidad de una y otra obra es muy diferente, ya que no sería desacertado si dijéramos que la novela de Bramón es la única novela pastoril divinizada de las letras novohispanas; al menos no se conoce ninguna otra hasta la fecha. En el caso de Bramón los pastores que recorren los "jardines mexicanos" son devotos...

This study uses a novel by Guatemalan writer Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel prize, to analyze the construction of Guatemalan identity at the end of the 1940s and to consider the factors involved in representing a Third World country.

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

Martin is an expert at losing things, but his mom and grandmother were used to it and took it with patience and a sense of humor. "You'll have to sew your things onto your hands," they told him. Martin didn't let it worry him so much until the day he lost his most beloved possession: the family photo album. He's determined to find it at any cost--but where do lost treasures go? Martin embarks on a fantastic journey to the land of lost things, where he meets great friends, terrible monsters, and an unforgettable adventure. But will he find his album?