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This book contains essays in Spanish and English. The essays in this collection are distinctive in their critical approach to a wide variety of topics. Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile are represented by some of their major literary figures in poetry (Valencia, Mistral, Neruda, Torres Bodet) or prose fiction (Asturias, Gallegos, Garcia Marquez). The four concluding studies on Von Humboldt, La Condamine, Gerstacker and Zweig are valuable in that they present historical, political, sociological, geographical and/or scientific concerns in a cross-cultural context."

Dieciséis testimonios de editoras colombianas que han contribuido con su oficio a la buena salud del sector editorial colombiano. Historias directas sobre el oficio, las luchas por ser mujer en un mundo dominado por hombres, las ideas que han hecho colecciones, revistas, audiolibros o diversos empeños editoriales independientes y comerciales de Colombia y España. La historia editorial colombiana ha estado construida por mujeres como Silvia Castrillón, una de las pioneras en la edición y la creación de políticas de lectura en Colombia, Ana Roda, María del Mar Ravassa, Maria Candelaria...

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.

Reviewers have celebrated this important volume as the first comprehensive critical appraisal of the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The volume features an introduction, an extensive annotated bibliography, an index, and Aleixandre's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture.