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Facsimile edition of the fourteen issues of the magazine published by Alfonso Reyes between 1930 and 1937. This edition includes reviews and critical revisions of authors like Jose Emilio Pacheco, Cecilia Laura Alonso, Alberto Enriquez and Hector Perea Perea.
It's written and commented in both Spanish and Portuguese.

This facsimile edition of the magazine includes literary essays originally conceived as snailmail, that Alfonso Reyes, then living in Brazil, published in Monterrey.

He was head of the Mexican embassy in Brazil during the early years of the thirties decade. By then Reyes already had twenty years of experience as ambassador and other diplomatic duties in several Spanish-speaking countries. ... Read more

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Entre los muchos temas que ocuparon el elevado intelecto de Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959), llaman la atención estas páginas en donde esboza un delicioso recorrido gastronómico. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Como señala el agudo prologuista de este volumen, el presente no es una "antología" de las obras de Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) en el sentido de "florilegio" que la palabra suele tener en la lengua española; es un "libro de lectura", una selección con fines prácticos, un "manual para latinoamericanos". Desde luego, el lector conseguirá aquí muchas de las páginas que la cultura latinoamericana ha convertido, con toda propiedad, en momentos absolutamente clásicos de su historia. No es para menos puesto que el maestro mexicano fue para este continente uno de esos pocos saltos de etapas en la historia intelectual latinoamericana. Borges lo consideraba el primer hombre de letras de nuestra América y no se refería, claro, a lo cronológico, sino al orden de las jerarquías que cuentan. ... Read more