{ "item_title" : "El Espejo Enterrado / The Buried Mirror", "item_author" : [" Carlos Fuentes "], "item_description" : "Del autor de Aura, La Silla del guila, La regi n m s transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz.Carlos Fuentes gan el Premio Pr ncipe de Asturias 1994, el Premio Cervantes 1987, el Premio Internacional Grinzane Cavour 1994, entre otras distinciones.Las culturas se fosilizan si est n aisladas, pero nacen o renacen en el contacto con otros hombres y mujeres, los hombres y mujeres de otra cultura, otro credo, otra raza. Si no reconocemos nuestra humanidad en los dem s, nunca la reconoceremos en nosotros mismos. De los espejos de obsidiana enterrados en la urbe totonaca de El Taj n a los espejos ib ricos de Cervantes y Vel zquez, el de la locura y el del asombro, un intercambio de reflejos culturales ha ido y venido de una a otra orilla del Atl ntico a lo largo de m s de quince a os; este ensayo cuenta esa historia, la nuestra. S lo nos vemos enteros en el espejo desenterrado de la identidad cuando aparecemos acompa ados del otro; entonces somos por fin capaces de mirar de cerca las consecuencias de nuestras acciones y convertir la experiencia en conocimiento. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONIn this essay, the great Mexican author Carlos Fuentes analyzes the search for Latin American identity. From the author of Aura, The Eagle's Throne, Where the Air Is Clear, The Death of Artemio Cruz. Carlos Fuentes won the 1994 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 1987 Cervantes Prize, the 1994 Grinzane Cavour International Prize, and many other distinctions. Cultures fossilize if they are isolated, but they are born or reborn upon contact with other men and women: men and women of another culture, another creed, another race. If we don't recognize our humanity in others, we will never recognize it in ourselves. From the obsidian mirrors buried in the Totonac city of El Taj n to the Iberian mirrors of Cervantes and Vel zquez; that of insanity and that of amazement; an exchange of cultural reflections has come and gone from one shore of the Atlantic to the other throughout more than fifteen years. This essay tells the story. We only see ourselves completely in the unearthed mirror of identity when we appear alongside another; then we are finally capable of examining the consequences of our actions and converting the experience into knowledge.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/6/07/314/470/6073144709_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "13.95", "online_price" : "13.95", "our_price" : "13.95", "club_price" : "13.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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