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This is a must-read book which expresses the ideology, and problems faced by Albizu and the puertorican independentist along years. He reached the highest step of human morality figt¡hting with reason and concepts even if he received nuclear radiation as punishment in USA jails.

YANKEES GO HOME!

I really liked this book, not only because it is very well written, but also because it explains quite clearly how the intelectual influence of political ideas can help change the real world.

Botana quotes Sarmiento, who trying to explain how ideas are born said that "in the spirit of those who study happens what occurs in river flods, when the passing water deposites little by little the solid particles that it brings diluted and fertilizes the soil". Natalio Botana explains to us that the history of political ideas is an horizon that opens before us, at the same time that keeps a legacy of ideas, previous disquisitions on the nature of power and obedience.

In "La tradición republicana" (The republican tradition) Botana tries to show us the intelectual biography of Alberdi and Sarmiento, two men that played a very important role in the building of Argentina as a nation. That is the reason why he explains us the ideas of the most important influences on those two men, whose task would be to try the republican ideals in a new country that totally lacked traditions of a political kind.

Botana mentions and studies Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith and Tocqueville, among others. That is why this book can also be used to study the history of political ideas. But I believe its deepest value lays in the fact that it delves on how difficult it was for those two men who were between exile and power, and intent on their mission to find the grounds for future legitimacy for their country, to articulate the abstract ideas they cherished with their everyday reality.

So, the dialogue between the horizon of ideas and circumstances is the theme of this book. Even if it talks a lot about Argentina, what we learn while we read it can be applied to other situations. And, truth to be told, it is a pleasure to read a book in which the prose is so fluent and elegant. On the whole my recommendation is: read it --> you won't have regrets.

PD: Sorry, but it is in spanish!!!

Asi es, la vida breve, primer novela de Onetti es fundamental para entender de manera propicia el resto de sus novelas y cuentos desarrollados en la mitica ciudad de Santa Maria (La Yoknapathoupa de Faulkner o la Macondo de Marquez). Eso es clarisimo, pero aparte la vida breve es el proceso de creacion, la via crucis, el viaje por los infiernos que todo escritor emprende para salir de ellos con todo un mundo nuevo gestado en ellos.

Hola somos unos amigos españoles de Galicia, concretamente de Santiago de Gustei (Ourense). Confíamos en que Su Santidad se digne a visitar nuestro pueblo algún día

Alarcón is one of the lesser-known authors from the Golden Age of Spanish theatre but his play, La verdad sospechosa is one of the more enjoyable among the comedies of this era, because it is closest to our contemporary notion of comedy. In the earlier comedies the source of humour was mostly the witty sayings of the play's joker. Here the jokes come mainly from the misunderstandings, not from the word-plays, and thus are far more enjoyable. Like in many comedies to come in the following centuries, the hero is a compulsive liar, who gradually gets entangled in his own created stories. This idea by now does not seem that big thing but here lying is not used simply as an element of the plot, the main aim of the author is to criticise this really bad habit. Of course, the idea could generate a Calderonian series of conflicts of what is reality and what is not and it could also raise Shakespearean questions of why people believe the wild things our hero says, as we can also see in Othello. It is true that this comedy does not go that deep, it stays on the shallow waters of will-he-marry-me-or-not type of conflict. Nevertheless, the author makes a clever satire about the hypocrisy of the society, and twists adeptly every possible situation out of the starting idea. It gradually heaps the uncomfortable consequences lying can bring about on the shoulders of our flawed hero, who easily won my sympathy, myself also being a compulsive liar. Besides, it manages to condemn the habit of lying without being didactic, especially with the bitter-sweet, a bit cruel "happy ending" of the story.

I like this story of Jaun Diego's vision. I read it over and over again. In choir, I learned the song Saddened Eyes. It's about Guadalope`, and one of my mom's favorite songs. I like the the picture of Guadalupe` on Juan Diego's touma. I love this book ever so much!

Landscape(s), edited by Kathy High and Liss Platt, looks at the notion of landscapes in a variety of interpretations, and investigates landscape as defined by its architectonic, electronic and political boundaries, as well as in its relation to the body. Contributors to this issue include: Richard Fung & Shani Mootoo, Sara Diamond & Laura Marks, Victor Masayesva, Jr., Raul Ferrara-Balanquet, Bob & Don Kinney, Sandi Dubowski & Mindy Faber, Sally Berger on Norman Cohen & Zak Kunuk, Jesse Drew, Merata Mita, Alberto Muenela, Kaucyila Brooke & Jane Cottis, Christopher Ortiz, Nora Fisch, Harry Gamboa, Jr., Jocelyn Taylor, Kelly Coyne, Diane Bertolo, Juan Downey, DYKE TV, Shari Frilot, Nam June Paik, Pam Jennings & Toni Dove, Ayanna Udongo, Susan Stryker, Mona Jimenez, Mary Lucier, Margie Strosser, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Meena Nanji, and many others artists.

cuando lei este libro hasta llegue a sonar unas cuantas veces con estar en la carretera polvosa camino a otra comunidad donde pudiese conseguir un mejor empleo, y durmiendo en una hooverville. la historia es fascinante y es tan buena que la novela no parece las paginas parecen cortas. la familia que emigra, la lucha por un trabajo, la muerte, el crecimiento y distaciamiento de la familia. esta novela pinta un cuadro dramatico aunque lleno de hermosura narrativa de la gran depresion de los anos treinta, narrada en un lenguaje humano. es una de las mejores de este autor. muy recomendada..

LUIS MENDEZ

As a Uruguayan reader and book-lover, I take offense at an editorial review by the Library Journal which, in spite of its literary name, doesn't seem to have bothered to check the accuracy of the information it gives about books' authors. F.Y.I., Juan Carlos Onetti was not Argentinian. He was Uruguayan, and ranks with his countrymen, the literary geniuses Horacio Quiroga, Eduardo Galeano and Felisberto Hernández, in originality and quality of craftmanship. I can only say how sorry I am to see erroneous information happily published online, to the confusion and misguiding of readers.