With a bold immersion in the turbulent and resplendent times of the Colony, Carlos Chimal opens an opportunity to discover the ideas, the emotions and the adventures experienced by the inhabitants of New Spain during the decisive years of our history with his book El Mercurio Volante, to which a conflict situation goes: the Lordship of the spaniards has its balance in the urge of a colonial thinking (our roots) forced in turn to coexist with an indigenous population that grudgingly adjusts to the -not always easy- castiltecas empire. Chimal chooses as the main character the wise Novohispano Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, who is supported and accompanied by the indigenous Serafín Ocelote. Bishops, viceroys and other illustrious figures take place along this novel; such as Athanasius Kircher, the astronomer Kino, and nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. With maturity and serenity that indicates, we have all learned the lessons about the Zapatista insurrection at the end of the last century, without the fake nostalgia or idealizations in which our colonialist writers could once have incurred; Carlos invites us all to return with a fresh vision to this invaluable part of our history.

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Letras Mexicanas

El mercurio volante

Carlos Chimal narrates in The Color Factory the life of the mexican inventor Guillermo Gonzlez Camarena, who designed one of the first color transmition systems for television. In the chapters I and II he immerses the reader on the family, social and technologic background that nurture his interest for electricity and electronics at an early age; while in the next three chapters he presents the major technologic developments that gave him worldwide fame, as well as the role he played in the development of broadcasting in Mexico. Finally, the epilogue of this book relives his tragic dead, at 48 years of age, in a car accident.

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La Ciencia Para Todos

Fabrica de colores

En breves ensayos, Carlos Chimal explora de manera crítica las múltiples relaciones entre ciencia y literatura, y descubre al lector que ninguna de ellas dos hubiese sobrevivido sin la creación de los lenguajes. Este libro pretende ofrecer un panorama de la ficción imbuida de las ideas científicas a lo largo de la historia y, en el mejor de los casos, convertirse en una guía de forasteros en su búsqueda de nuevos mundos literarios. Al hacerlo, surgirán los nombres de algunos autores que han descubierto vínculos ocultos que comunican la imaginación científica con la reflexión literaria.

Futurama. Literatura y ciencia a través del tiempo

Novela que incorpora a la narrativa mexicana el tema del futbol americano, y cuenta la historia de un grupo de adeptos que forman una banda de narcotraficantes en la que el peligro es un placer y una tentación irresistible.

El mercurio volante (2018)

Fabrica de colores (2017)

Futurama. Literatura y ciencia a través del tiempo (2012)

Escaramuza (2014)