Los elementos neofantásticos en el cuento “Carta a una señorita en París” de Julio Cortázar

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

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Cualquiera de estas historias te dará una contundente lección de vida, algo que, por supuesto, nunca está de más. Los niños aprenden aquí a verse reflejados en sí mismos para ir consolidando en su personalidad profundos valores humanos. Hay cosas que destacar aquí: todos los problemas serán resueltos por las vía pacífica. El amor saldrá ganando de todas las contiendas, y se convertirá en el motor que impulse las buenas acciones. La solidaridad será la gran protagonista en este relato sobre valientes que no puedes dejar de leer. Algunos otros valores importantes se destacan; ni...