Día: 6 mayo, 2014

By José Alberto Gaytán García* In major newspapers and magazines around the world there is a literary section called Book Review, which is responsible for commenting on the recent books that sales volume captured the attention of literary criticism. In this section there is only room for famous books that reach the category of best sellers, English term meaning “the best-selling”. Books included in that list earn the right to be translated into several languages and presented with honors in bookstores and prestigious universities of the world. However, there are…

By José Alberto Gaytán García* On April 27, 1842, the capital of the country was shocked to learn of the brutal murder of an English citizen named Daniel Thomas Egerton and his partner Agnes Edwards. The pair of British citizens had left, as they used to do every evening, to take a leisurely stroll through the gardens and roads near their beautiful country house, a former monastery that in the eigh-teenth century belonged to the Abbots of the convent of San Diego. The house was located in the ancient village…