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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among
four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As
they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and
unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in
the opposing currents that flow between security and personal
freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work,
provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender
roles.
This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La
casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first
time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin
America's, major writers of the twentieth century. Juan Garcia
Ponce helped Mexican arts and letters break out of the ossified
styles and themes of the post-Revolutionary "Mexican School" with
works that explore the conflict between individual desire and the
demands of family and work. Written at a turning point in his
career, The House on the Beach foreshadows his embrace of the
erotic encounter as a means of undermining rigid, socially
constructed personal identity. It supports feminist views and
probes deeply into the contradictions, backwardness, and progress
of modern Mexican society.
Se recogen en este libro casi dos docenas de ensayos sobre diversos
temas de contenido humanistico. En conjunto, constituye una breve
coleccion muy apropiada para el lector que desee iniciarse en el
conocimiento de las disciplinas humanisticas. Como introduccion al
estudio de las humanidades, esta compilacion resulta de lo mas
atractivo y la tematica es, de por si, muy adecuada para el lector
interesado en el conocimiento del hombre. En el libro se
entrecruzan la experiencia vital del autor y la ensenanza libresca,
en un proceso - que ya se manifiesta en el titulo mismo del volumen
- segun el cual esa experiencia vivida viene a derivar en teoria.
La experiencia vital, ascendida de categoria, resulta ser la
teoria. Esta proviene directamente de la previa vivencia,
verificandose el viejo principio escolastico del nada hay en el
entendimiento que no haya estado previamente en la sensacion. Lo
que, trasladado a una version mas actualizada, podriamos entender
como "nada hay en la teoria que no este basado en una experiencia
previa." En resumen, estamos ante un excelente metodo de iniciacion
al humanismo. En ello radica el valor propedeutico de este libro.
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