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Testigos no deseados
Read moreTitle Testigos no deseados Author Gabriela Polit Dueñas; Petronella Zetterlund Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Imprint Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial ISBN 9786073076876 Edition number Primera edición Publication year 2023 Pages 237 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Gabriela Polit Dueñas analyzes the work of five journalists from three different countries: Marcela Turati, Daniela Rea and Sandra Rodríguez, from Mexico, Patricia Nieto, from Colombia, and Maria Eugenia Ludueña, from Argentina, recognized for their literary journalism, the result of their quality and merit in exercising their profession in conditions of extreme danger. The author asserts that what drives and defines the journalists´ writing is how they portray the affective response that the situations provoke both in them and in the people involved. foreign rights contact Lic. Felipe de Jesús Santa Rita Nava E-mail felipe.santarita@libros.unam.mx -
Grotescos y arabescos
Read moreTitle Grotescos y arabescos Author Gabriele D´Annunzio; Diego Mejía Estévez; Rodrigo Jardón Herrera Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Imprint Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial ISBN 9786073072632 Edition number Primera edición Publication year 2023 Pages 89 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis In the Grotesques and Arabesques, the Italian artist employs a narrative mechanism that will reach its ultimate consequences with II piacere, based on the allusion to the artistic tops as a compositional method. In this way, numerous intertexts are evident, which also outline a rather explicit poetics and canon [...] It is through this type of procedures that D´Annunzio the novelist, whose imprint defines this book, avoids the structures of the classical novel that decades earlier had been established by Honoré de Balzac and Stendhal. foreign rights contact Lic. Felipe de Jesús Santa Rita Nava E-mail felipe.santarita@libros.unam.mx -
El hombre crucigrama
Read moreTitle El hombre crucigrama Author Roberto Abad; Kenia Cano Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Imprint Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial ISBN 9786073075756 Edition number Primera edición Publication year 2023 Pages 97 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis In any cafeteria, in any city, a man chooses a table, takes off his raincoat and hat, asks for a double expresso and after a reflective pause begins to narrate the very brief and surprising stories that inhabit these pages. Each one is a paradox, a question that opens before the world and also a clue to complete the task that the man sitting in that lonely cafe has set himself, to give meaning to his life, which is about to end: he wants to create a crossword puzzle out from the world hidden behind each of these stories. foreign rights contact Lic. Felipe de Jesús Santa Rita Nava E-mail felipe.santarita@libros.unam.mx -
Furia
Read moreTitle Furia Author José Luis Trueba Lara; Emmanuel Peña Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Imprint Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial ISBN 9786073075701 Edition number Primera edición Publication year 2023 Pages 214 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Fury narrates a dark episode in the history of Mexico in which the capital was occupied by the United States army, commanded by general Scott. Many died, others had to leave their homes and go far away to survive, there were assaults, looting, bombs exploded, and horrendous executions took place at the Alameda Central. In response, the rooftops of the City of Palaces were filled with insurgents and rebels who, lacking weapons, hurled stones at the invaders. foreign rights contact Lic. Felipe de Jesús Santa Rita Nava E-mail felipe.santarita@libros.unam.mx -
Atenas 317
Read moreTitle Atenas 317 Author León Plascencia Ñol Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Imprint Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial ISBN 9786073072939 Edition number Primera edición Publication year 2023 Pages 102 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Athens 317 uses a language fractured into shards to discursively represent a psyche disrupted by clinical depression and the gradual breakdown of a love bond. Throughout eleven sections, each with its own compositional principles, Plascencia Ñol uses the repetition of phrases and verses, as well as the dialog between text and image to reflect on the discontinuous nature of time, loss, and memory. foreign rights contact Lic. Felipe de Jesús Santa Rita Nava E-mail felipe.santarita@libros.unam.mx -
La raiz negra de los astros
Read moreTitle La raiz negra de los astros Author Nadia Escalante Andrade Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Imprint Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial ISBN 9786073072762 Edition number Primera edición Publication year 2023 Pages 56 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis "Every poem is a map" writes Escalante and, indeed, the cartographic exercises contained in this book chart a return to language, they make use of the verbal as raw material to reconstruct a sense and a desire of their own to inhabit the world. The speaker, marked by an elective silence yet conscious of that other silence imposed on the women who preceded us, uses the world carefully, extensively, like someone who germinates seeds underground. foreign rights contact Lic. Felipe de Jesús Santa Rita Nava E-mail felipe.santarita@libros.unam.mx -
Luz clave
Read moreTitle Luz clave Author Claudia Hernández de Valle Arizpe Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Imprint Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial ISBN 9786073072380 Edition number Primera edición Publication year 2023 Pages 92 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis Key Light would seem to suggest that the body is traversed by rhythm. In this pioneering book due to its poetic treatment of dance, Claudia Hernández de Valle Arizpe explores dance not as a mere event that takes place in the distant stage, but in one´s own flesh, from the very perspective of the dancer. foreign rights contact Lic. Felipe de Jesús Santa Rita Nava E-mail felipe.santarita@libros.unam.mx -
La danza amarilla
Read moreTitle La danza amarilla Author Canario de la Cruz Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Imprint Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial ISBN 9786073072373 Edition number Primera edición Publication year 2023 Pages 71 Format Print and digital THEMA Biography, Literature and Literary studies Synopsis The yellow dance links two seemingly distant traditions: the gaze of the Ch´ol people, living in southeastern Mexico, and the Japanese practice of haiku. Throughout his brief, fresh, full of powerful images poems, the poet finds communicating vessels between remote domains, thanks to the attention that they both pay to nature. foreign rights contact Lic. Felipe de Jesús Santa Rita Nava E-mail felipe.santarita@libros.unam.mx
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