Pequeñas historias del Fondo de Cultura Económica
On September 3, 1934 the constitutive act of the Economic Culture Fund was signed, with a specific and very limited purpose: to provide specialized books to the students of the nascent economics career at UNAM. In this book, Rafael Vargas Escalante recalls, 85 years after this discreet event, the achievements - and some notable setbacks - of a central institution in the Spanish-speaking literary, academic and artistic world: the almost 40 pieces collected here, which appeared earlier in The Gazette and other periodicals make up an arbitrary tour around some of the main authors, publishers, translators, illustrators, works, collections and subsidiaries abroad of the cultural company promoted by Daniel Cosío Villegas. "From Mexico to the whole of America" is a phrase with which Arnaldo Orfila Reynal, director of the FCE for more than three decades, synthesized the Spanish-American voc...read more
