-Titulo Original : Saul Leiter: All About Saul Leiter-Fabricante : R...

-Titulo Original : Posada: Monograph (Spanish Edition)-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: Originally published in 1930, Posada: Monografia is a facsimile edition of the first monograph of the great Mexican illustrator and engraver Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). Reprinted to coincide with the 100th anniversary of his death, reproduces more than 400 of the most iconic prints from Posada’s vast output, collected by Pablo O’Higgins from those that could be located and identified at the time. Posada and Manuel Manilla--a talented engraver who greatly influenced Posada--were the two artists of their day who best interpreted the lives and social attitudes of Mexican people. Posada, in particular, is in the great tradition of illustrators who double as political and social commentators (a tradition that also includes Aubrey Beardsley and Honore Daumier). The images of the high-spirited, at times macabre broadsheets reproduced in Posada: Monografia include the famous calaveras, or skeleton creatures, along with illustrations for songs, corridos (traditional ballads) and religious prayers. The skeletons in the barrios were a metaphor for a corrupt society; Posada supplemented his black humor with lampoons of venal politicians, and, not surprisingly, was jailed on several occasions for his transgressions. With their striking visual qualities, his ingenious images did much to enrich the tradition of the popular Mexican print. Posada: Monografia also includes an introduction by Frances Toor, the legendary editor of Mexican Folkways magazine, and an essay by Diego Rivera...

-Titulo Original : Albarran Cabrera: Remembering The Future (Assorted)-Fabricante : Rm-Descripcion Original: Both born in 1969 and living in Barcelona, Anna Cabrera and Angel Albarra n have been working together for more than twenty years and form a rising duo on the photographic scene. Together, they develop a photographic universe, poetic and sensible where the emotion of the subject meets the beauty of the print. Questioning identity and the traces the camera keeps of the past, their various open series evoke our relationship with time and memory and our perception of the photographic image between reality and illusion...

-Titulo Original : Pedro Paramo (pedro Paramo, Spanish Edition) (coleccion Literatura Siglo)-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la critica, esta ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo, que transcurre en una serie de transposiciones oniricas, ahondando mas alla de la muerte de sus personajes, que uno no sabe en que momento son sueño, vida, fabula, verdad, pero a los que se les oye la voz al traves de la perspicacia despiadada y certera de tan sin duda extraordinario escritor. Con estas palabras iniciaba Edmundo Valdes la primera reseña de Pedro Paramo, aparecida el 30 de marzo de 1955 y conservada por Juan Rulfo entre sus papeles.Desde entonces el reconocimiento a esta obra maestra ha sido constante, hasta el punto que la encuesta del Instituto Nobel de Suecia, de 2002, dirigida a un centenar de escritores y estudiosos de todo el mundo, situo a Pedro Paramo entre las cien obras que constituyen el nucleo del patrimonio universal de la literatura. About the Author Juan Rulfo nacio el 16 de mayo de 1917. Fue registrado en Sayula y vivio en la poblacion de San Gabriel, pero las tempranas muertes de su padre (1923) y su madre (1927) obligaron a sus abuelos a inscribirlo en un internado en Guadalajara, la capital de Jalisco.Durante sus años en San Gabriel conoce la biblioteca literaria de un cura, depositada en la casa familiar, experiencia esencial en su formacion. Se suele destacar su orfandad como determinante en su vocacion artistica, olvidando que su contacto temprano con aquellos libros tendria un peso mayor en este terreno. Una huelga en la Universidad de Guadalajara le impide inscribirse en ella y se traslada a la ciudad de Mexico. Asiste a cursos en la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras y se convierte en un conocedor de la literatura historica, antropologica y geografica de Mexico. Durante las decadas de 1930 y 1940 viaja extensamente por el pais, trabaja en Guadalajara o en la ciudad de Mexico y comienza a publicar sus cuentos gracias a su gran amigo Efren Hernandez. En estos mismos años se inicia como fotografo.Obtiene en 1952 la primera de las dos becas consecutivas del Centro Mexicano de Escritores, fundada por la estadounidense Margaret Shedd, sin duda la persona determinante para que Rulfo publicase en 1953 El Llano en llamas y en 1955 la novela Pedro Paramo, que lo consagran como un clasico de la lengua española. Las dos ultimas decadas de su vida las dedico Rulfo al Instituto Nacional Indigenista, donde se encargo de la edicion de una de las colecciones mas importantes de antropologia contemporanea y antigua de Mexico. Juan Rulfo fallecio en la ciudad de Mexico el 7 de enero de 1986...

-Titulo Original : Retratos De Familia-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: Desde muy pequeña, Lourdes Grobet se intereso por el espectaculo de la lucha libre mexicana. Es la unica mujer que ha trabajado sobre el tema durante mas de 25 años , y con sus lentes ha ido captando la magia de este apasionado deporte, del que se habla mucho y poco se conoce, pues se trata de un mundo aparte, especial, admirado pero incomprendido. Estos guerreros necesitan su disfraz, pues su aspecto no solo es un bello adorno caracteristico del contexto propio de la lucha libre, sino tambien un arma para desconcertar, deslumbrar, asustar y guamearse al contrincante. Guerreros alterados por el sublime placer de asumirse, estoicamente, anonimos , cuya vida publica podra ser una leyenda conocida, pero cuya vida privada debe ser un secreto, pues su epopeyica fantasia se confronta al diseño ambiental normal cotidiano con su particular misterio. En este fascinante libro, la asidua de las arenas se adentra en la vida privada de esos idolos, en sus hogares, en sus sitios de reunion y en los festejos de los historicos gladiadores del ring. Rafael Tonatiuh aporta su especial vision de este fenomeno social unico en el mundo. Cada luchador nos lleva al borde de su personal misterio...

-Titulo Original : Obra (oeuvre, Spanish Edition)-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: La obra de Juan Rulfo, integrada esencialmente por la coleccion de cuentos El Llano en llamas y las novelas Pedro Paramo y El gallo de oro, es sin duda la creacion literaria mexicana que ha recibido mayor aclamacion dentro y fuera de Mexico. Ningun escritor mexicano goza hoy del reconocimiento universal de Rulfo, nacido en el estado de Jalisco en 1917 y fallecido en la Ciudad de Mexico en 1986. Son numerosos los autores de la talla de Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges y Susan Sontag que han dejado testimonios al respecto. Juan Rulfo ejercio de manera paralela el oficio de fotografo durante los años en que escribia su narrativa, y es importante el numero de publicaciones que han dado a conocer esta faceta. Susan Sontag, autora del clasico On Photography, dijo: Juan Rulfo es el mejor fotografo que he conocido en Latinoamerica. The work of Juan Rulfo, consisting essentially of the short story collection El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plain) and the novels Pedro Paramo and El gallo de oro (The Golden Cockerel), is doubtless the Mexican literary oeuvre that has garnered the highest accolades both within Mexico and internationally. No other Mexican writer is so widely acclaimed as Rulfo, who was born in the state of Jalisco in 1917 and died in Mexico City in 1986. Numerous writers of the stature of Gabriel Garc.a M.rquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Susan Sontag have testified to the fact. Juan Rulfo also devoted himself to photography during the years he was producing his narrative works, and numerous critical books have dealt with this facet of his oeuvre. Susan Sontag, author of the classic On Photography, said that Rulfo was the finest photographer she had come across in Latin America...

-Titulo Original : El Gallo De Oro Y Otros Relatos (the Golden Cockerel And Other Writings, Spanish Edition)-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: A partir de la aparicion de “Pedro Paramo”, Rulfo escribe su segunda novela, “El gallo de oro”. Ambientada en el mundo de las peleas de gallos y concebida como proyecto cinematografico, probablemente se trate de la obra menos conocida del autor mexicano. No obstante ese desconocimiento, la valoracion literaria esta al mismo nivel que “Pedro Paramo” y “Llano en Llamas”. From the appearance of Pedro Paramo, Rulfo writes his second novel, El gallo de oro. Set in the world of cockfighting and conceived as a film project, it is probably the lesser-known work of the Mexican author. Despite this ignorance, the literary valuation is at the same level as Pedro Paramo and Llano en Llamas. On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Juan Rulfo, RM publishes a special edition of El gallo de oro to which other stories that complement it are incorporated. The film script of The secret formula, two early stories by Juan Rulfo: Life is not very serious in its things and A piece of night, and also the one entitled Castillo de Teayo. Also included is a letter from Rulfo to his wife, Clara Aparicio, in which Rulfo makes a harsh reflection on the nature of a heartless economic system. Finally, the reader will find nine texts that originally appeared in the collection of texts Los cuadernos de Juan Rulfo, an edition that is out of print...

-Titulo Original : Empresas Y Tribulaciones De Maqroll El Gaviero (enterprises And Tribulations Of Maqroll El Gaviero, Spanish Edition)-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: At the age of sixty-three, Álvaro Mutis took up the character that had appeared sporadically in his poetry and turned him into the central figure of a narrative cycle consisting of seven novels, written between 1986 and 1993, to which the author himself gave the general title of Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero. This edition gathers the complete fictional cycle of Maqroll el Gaviero, the main character in all seven novels: La nieve del Almirante, Ilona llega con la lluvia, Un bel morir, La ultima escala del Tramp Steamer, Amirbar, Abdul Bashur, soñador de navios, and Triptico de mar y tierra. Maqroll el Gaviero has earned a place as one of the legendary characters of world literature. In the words of Javier Reverte, he constitutes a veritable monument in contemporary Latin American literature. A los sesenta y tres años, Álvaro Mutis retomo el personaje que habia aparecido esporadicamente en su poesia y lo convirtio en la figura central de un ciclo narrativo compuesto por siete novelas, escritas entre 1986 y 1993, a las que el propio autor dio la titulo general de Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero. Esta edicion recoge el ciclo ficcional completo de Maqroll el Gaviero, protagonista de siete novelas: La nieve del Almirante, Ilona llega con la lluvia, Un bel morir, La ultima escala del Tramp Steamer, Amirbar, Abdul Bashur, soñador de navios , y Triptico de mar y tierra. Maqroll el Gaviero se ha ganado un lugar como uno de los personajes miticos de la literatura universal. En palabras de Javier Reverte, constituye un verdadero monumento de la literatura latinoamericana contemporanea...

-Titulo Original : Dr. Lakra-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK “Will keep you up. In a ‘can’t put it down’ way. It’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ with XX chromosomes.” —The Skimm “Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train.” —Library Journal (starred review) Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne—a socialite and philanthropist—and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale. Amber’s envy could eat her alive . . . if she didnt have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life—the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces. With shocking turns and dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Last Mrs. Parrish is a fresh, juicy, and utterly addictive thriller from a diabolically imaginative talent...

-Titulo Original : El Llano En Llamas The Burning Plain, Spanish Edition-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: La encuesta del Instituto Nobel de Suecia, de 2002, dirigida a un centenar de escritores y estudiosos de todo el mundo, ubico a Pedro Paramo entre las cien obras que constituyen el nucleo del patrimonio universal de la literatura. This collection contains 17 stories published by Rulfo beginning in 1945, when “Nos han dado la tierra” appeared in the literary reviews America and Pan. Rulfo described the progress of his work in letters to his fiancee Clara Aparicio. In 1951 he published a seventh story in America, “Diles que no me maten” (which Elias Canetti considered one of the finest stories ever written and Gunter Grass admired as well). Thanks to a first grant from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Rulfo was able to finish eight more stories, which appeared with those already published under the general title of El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plain), also the name of one of the stories in the volume. The book was dedicated to Clara...

-Titulo Original : Cristina de Middel: Journey to the Center-Fabricante : RM-Descripcion Original: Blending documentary and conceptual photography, de Middel’s account of migrants traveling to California brings the plight of immigration into harsh relief Cristina de Middel (born 1975), the first Spanish head of Magnum Photos, has been traveling for years with Mexican migrants on the train they call “the beast”: interviewing sicarios (hired killers) and talking for hours with coyotes (clandestine smugglers) and police officers. She combines her own photographs with objects found in the desert and archival footage, creating a multi-layered narrative that evokes the hardships and dangers of searching for a better life. The journey begins in Tapachula, a city on the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala, and ends in Felicity, a small town in California dubbed the “Center of the World.” This saga is punctuated by the accounts of three migrants recounting their crossing, as well as a commentary by the artist. An afterword by Mexican journalist Pedro Anza illuminates the issues at stake and the human consequences of the United States’ obsession with closing its borders...