Category: EL COLEGIO NACIONAL
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Retrato hablado. Evocaciones de un fantasma
Read moreTitle Retrato hablado. Evocaciones de un fantasma Author Juan Villoro Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244325 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 84 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Retrato hablado commemorates the centennial of Ramón López Velarde's death. Throughout the play, the writer's ghost recalls a dialogue that took place a century earlier between two young students and Miguel Casasola, as they wait for the poet in the photographer’s studio, where he is about to have is portrait taken. Said dialogue and the ghost's monologues present key moments in the life of López Velarde, dubbed the “national poet”, as well as passages that are representative of his literary opus. The book includes an appendix with bibliographical notes on the edition of López Velarde’s works. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
La vida que se escribe. El periodismo cultural de José Emilio Pacheco.
Read moreTitle La vida que se escribe. El periodismo cultural de José Emilio Pacheco. Author Juan Villoro Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244790 Edition number 3 Publication year 2024 Pages 67 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis An analysis of José Emilio Pacheco's journalistic work in his column “Inventario,” first published in Excélsior and then in Proceso, from 1973 until his death. This long-running weekly project had not been fully examined until now. To commemorate the first publication of “Inventario” as an anthology in 2017, Juan Villoro presents an essay where he delves into this heterogeneous collection of texts and analyzes a little studied facet of Pacheco's work. A brief appendix with interesting facts is included at the end. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El tiempo y sus mastines
Read moreTitle El tiempo y sus mastines Author Vicente Quirarte Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243038 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 223 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis In 1980, Vicente Quirarte published his first book of poems: Teatro sobre el viento armado. Since then, he has published many collections and anthologies such as Vencer a la blancura (1982), El peatón es asunto de la lluvia (1999), and many others. His work has been acknowledged with several awards. El tiempo y sus mastines is a selection, put together by the author himself, that gathers more than sixty poems (most of them about love, although it is not the only theme in the book) that showcase the different stages of Quirarte's poetic creation. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El fantasma de la prima Agueda
Read moreTitle El fantasma de la prima Agueda Author Vicente Quirarte Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077242468 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 103 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis El fantasma de la prima Águeda presents a compilation of short essays, written in different times and places, in which Vicente Quirarte reviews some aspects of Ramón López Velarde's life and work, in a personal and free way. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Nonagenario Cuidam Dicata
Read moreTitle Nonagenario Cuidam Dicata Author Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077241751 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 168 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis This volume is a moving tribute to Miguel León-Portilla on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma gives a personal account of the life and work of the Mexican historian. He also compiles an array of reviews dedicated to some of his most outstanding works: Literaturas indígenas de México, Tonantzin Guadalupe. Nahuatl thought and Christian message in the “Nican mopohua”, Cantares mexicanos and México-Tenochtitlan, su espacio y tiempo sagrados. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Octavio Paz y la arqueología
Read moreTitle Octavio Paz y la arqueología Author Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243199 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 62 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis This book gathers four essays by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on Octavio Paz's relationship with the pre-Hispanic world. The author explores different themes and interests linked to the pre-Hispanic world and archaeology that influenced the work of the Mexican poet. He deals with death and indigenism in Paz's production, describes the writer's ideas on pre-Hispanic art, and also celebrates the poet and his literary production pertaining to this subject. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Las andanzas de un calendario y los trotes de un caballito
Read moreTitle Las andanzas de un calendario y los trotes de un caballito Author Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077243991 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 56 Format Print and digital THEMA History and Archaeology Synopsis The Sun Stone was buried in the Plaza de Armas by order of the archbishop of Mexico City a few years after the Conquest. A similar fate befell the equestrian statue of Charles IV, known as El Caballito, which was originally mounted on the Plaza Mayor, but was placed in several other locations before arriving at Plaza Tolsá in 1979. In this book, archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma recounts the details of the pilgrimage of both sculptures in search of rest. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
El largo instante del incendio.Ensayo biográfico sobre José Vasconcelos
Read moreTitle El largo instante del incendio.Ensayo biográfico sobre José Vasconcelos Author Rafael Mondragón Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077244646 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 343 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis José Vasconcelos is one of the most pain inducing writers in Mexican literature. These pages explore the reasons behind that pain. They build his biography based on moments in his life and work: his adolescence, the founding of the Ministry of Public Education, the 1929 electoral campaign, and the dark years that led him to defend Nazism. The book presents a mosaic of texts, testimonies, and memories from several generations who participated in Vasconcelism. It invites us to reflect on José Vasconcelos's lingering impact. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Mahler y Shostakóvich
Read moreTitle Mahler y Shostakóvich Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245544 Edition number 1 Publication year 2025 Pages 90 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis The lives of the last two great symphonists in history, Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich, took place in very different times and circumstances. The former was more famous as a conductor than as a composer during his lifetime; the latter was first subjected to Stalinist censorship and later exalted as a creator of socialist music. Mahler influenced the work of Shostakovich, who died of lung cancer, as a result of being an inveterate smoker. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Chaikovski y Puccini
Read moreTitle Chaikovski y Puccini Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245506 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 90 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Two of the public's favorite composers, Tchaikovsky and Puccini, die in the midst of their creative stage. The former passes away days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony (Pathetique), giving rise to controversial theories on the cause of death —cholera or suicide?—, a dilemma that we try to elucidate here. Puccini, in turn, survives a serious automobile accident, to die years later in an emergency hospital in Belgium, far away from his homeland and friends, without finishing his last opera: Turandot. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Borodin y Bizet
Read moreTitle Borodin y Bizet Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245247 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 90 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Two contemporaneous musicians famous for their operas: a Russian, Aleksandr Borodin, author of Prince Igor, and a Frenchman, Georges Bizet, author of Carmen. Borodin, also a celebrated chemist, ends his successful life halfway through a dance. Bizet, gifted with exceptional musical creativity, dies at the age of thirty-six, depressed by the constant struggle to excel in the difficult Parisian musical environment, without ever knowing the phenomenal success that Carmen would gain. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx -
Clara Schumann y Johannes Brahms
Read moreTitle Clara Schumann y Johannes Brahms Author Adolfo Martínez Palomo Publisher El Colegio Nacional Imprint El Colegio Nacional ISBN 9786077245049 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 87 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis After Robert Schumann's death in 1856, his widow Clara and Johannes Brahms establish an affectionate relationship that lasts 40 years, but does not lead to marriage. In 1896, she dies exhausted, after leading a hectic life as a pianist and mother of seven children. He dies the following year, ill and disconsolate. This is the story of the long-lasting bond between two geniuses, through music. foreign rights contact Alejandro Cruz Atienza E-mail a.cruzatienza@colnal.mx
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