Dans le nord du Mexique, en 1914. La révolution bat son plein. Un vieil Américain passe la frontière dans l'intention de rejoindre les troupes de Pancho Villa. Il tombe sur celles du général Tomás Ar
An intimate self portrait of one of the most renowned Mexican artists of the twentieth century The Diary of Frida Kahlo An Intimate Self Portrait is a visual document engaging the eye with a volcanic profusion of penned and painted imagery New York Times Published in its entirety Frida Kahlo s amazing illustrated journal documents the last 10 years of her turbulent life These passionate often surprising intimate records kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable artist The 170 page journal contains the artist s thoughts poems and dreams many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband artist Diego Rivera along with 70 mesmerizing watercolor illustrations Her views of love politics and more come into sharp focus in a kaleidoscope of creativity and thought In his introduction award winner Carlos Fuentes one of Mexico s most important writers and critics ties Kahlo s images of pain loss mutilation and transcendence to Mexico s historic cycles of revolution and reaction Sprinkled with irony black humor even gaiety and augmented with translations of the diary entries plus commentaries and photographs her diary stands as a reminder of not only Kahlo s
Terra Nostra es la novela más extensa y ambiciosa del mexicano Carlos Fuentes, Premio Cervantes de Literatura en 1987 y uno de los máximos exponenetes de la generación de narradores hispanoamericanos contemporaneos. A traves de una estructura laberintica, el autor lleva a cabo una profunda investigacion sobre las distintas aportaciones culturales y los avatares historicos que han contribuido a conformar el mundo hispanico desde los tiempos clasicos hasta el umbral del siglo XXI. En este fascinante relato la historia se mezcla con la fantasia y el delirio futurista, al tiempo que los personajes historicos conviven con los literarios y se debaten y conjugan los mitos esenciales de distintas culturas humanas. Terra Nostra es, tambien , una historia de amor que vence las barreras del tiempo. Ver Tomo I
Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play by a leading Mexican writer stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.Carlos Fuentes play Orchids in the Moonlight was written in 1982. This English translation by Sebastian Doggart was first staged by the Southern Development Trust in August 1992 in the Teatro Nacional, Havana, Cuba, and then had its British premiere at the Richard Demarco Gallery Theatre, Edinburgh in August 1992.
«En 1913, el escritor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce, misántropo, periodista de la cadena Hearst y autor de hermosos cuentos sobre la Guerra de Secesión, se despidió de sus amigos con algunas cartas e
