Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel

Author	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
ISBN	0142437239

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills,...

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	8489163413

Lázaro es un muchacho desarrapado a quien la miseria obliga a emplearse como sirviente. Las inocentes y a veces justificadas burlas con las que Lázaro se defiende de sus amos son castigadas con una crueldad brutal.

Así, garrotazo a garrotazo, la simpleza y credulidad del Lázaro de las...

Author	Gustav Meyrink
ISBN	1873982917

First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum;...

Author

Tomás Rivera

Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. ...y no se lo trago la tierra won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has become the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country....

Author	Raymond Federman
ISBN	1573660752

Double or Nothing is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these...

Author	Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
ISBN	8437615941

Creo que es necesario pensar esta novela como un texto que es mucho más que sus honoríficos. Sí, es la primera novela antiesclavista, sí, su autora es de las primeras escritoras latinoamericanas y, sí, se articula un incipiente discurso feminista pero, ¿qué más? Personalmente, me hace sentido...