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An updated and revised edition of the widely used first edition. Includes hundreds of new technology terms and entries from even more Spanish-speaking countries.

Extensive coverage of the most frequently used words, including Internet terminology, slang, and idiomatic phrases.

GABRIELA MISTRAL; PÁGINA LEGAL; ÍNDICE; LAGAR; POEMA DE CHILE; BREVE EPÍLOGO; ANEXO: MI CORAZÓN ES UN CINCEL PROFUNDO; BIBLIOGRAFÍA ELEMENTAL

Un apasionante libro sobre lavida y la obra de la autora más destacada de las letras latinoamericanas contemporáneas.

Onetti, Puig and Valenzuela, writers linked by their common geography and history, share and explore a post-colonial emptiness, a constant questioning of realism and a love of tango.Onetti, Puig and Valenzuela have not had the same level of international acclaim as Borges, García Márquez or Vargas Llosa, but they are equally intellectually challenging, and their work adds much to the breadth and depth of twentieth-century Latin American literature.

A career-spanning volume, charting the Nobel laureate’s work in the ode form. This bilingual volume, edited by Ilan Stavans, the distinguished translator and scholar of Latin American literature, gathers all the odes together for the first time in any language.

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This book in Spanish presents a panoramic view of contemporary Chilean literature from an aesthetic and ideological perspective in connection with the country's recent history.

A major bilingual anthology of twentieth-century Latin American poetry During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations.

Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Ruben Dario (1867-1916) has been revered by writers including Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Dario created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry.

Struggling with poor eyesight and eventual blindness for most of his life, Borges went on to become of one of the greatest short story writers of 20th century. His fiction, often metaphysical and fantastic has been said to influence the great magical realists.

Un viaje a través de la historia del siglo XX de la mano de unos personajes inolvidables que descubrirán que en una sola vida caben muchas vidas y que, a veces, lo difícil no es huir sino volver.