Ópera y drama

Un maravilloso libro sobre el poder de las historias. El compañero esencial de El tatuador de Auschwitz. El tatuador de Auschwitz se ha convertido en uno de los libros más vendidos de nuestros tiempos, un clásico contemporáneo. Historias de esperanza es su compañero esencial y en él Heather Morris nos ofrece un manual inspirador para nuestra vida, con emocionantes relatos de la gente que ha conocido, las increíbles historias que han compartido con la autora y las lecciones que nos enseñan a todos. Morris explora su extraordinario talento como oyente, una habilidad que empleó cuando...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

En este ensayo, el genial Raymond Chandler critica a los escritores que escriben novelas policiales como si hicieran chorizos, aquellos que han convertido al género policial en el lado B de la literatura. Con su particular humor, Chandler rescata las mejores herramientas para crear algo más profundo que un simple enigma y reivindica la obra de Dashiell Hammett, su autor más admirado, creador de los asesinatos más interesantes del mundo.

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...