Un Baruch para Spinoza

En 1985, cuando Nelson Mandela llevaba veintitrés años en prisión, se propuso conquistar a sus enemigos, los más fervientes defensores del apartheid. Así obtuvo su libertad y consiguió convertirse en presidente. Pero la inestabilidad de un país dividido por el odio racial cristalizó en la amenaza de una guerra civil. Mandela supo que tenía que conseguir la unión de blancos y negros de forma espontánea y emocional y vio que el deporte era una estrategia extraordinaria para lograrlo.

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

This book is virtually the only source of knowledge concerning its author's early life. He was born in Montemor-o-Velho some ten or twelve years before the death of King Manuel in December 1521. About the time of the latter event he to Lisbon and intered 'the service or relatives.'

Poetry in English and Spanish, openly political, blatantly blunt, and religiously irreverent, reaches from the innermost corners of the soul to the streets of New York, to the battlegrounds of Central America, and finally to union with the godhead