Opus Dei

Including Homage to Catalonia 'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighting in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism, essays, letters and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened amid a 'crop of lies' from...

Les deux premiers contes s'ouvrent sur la féerie des soirs de réveillon, propices aux récits extraordinaires. Au cœur de El caso de la senorita Amelia, qui a pour théâtre Buenos Aires, une question : qu'adviendrait-il si, selon le vœu du poète, le Temps venait à suspendre son vol ? Le héros de Un cuento de Pascuas va pour sa part revivre lors de la traversée nocturne de la place de la Concorde et des Tuileries les scènes hallucinantes de la Terreur. Quant à Huitzilopoxtli, una leyenda mexicana, le troisième texte, il transporte le lecteur au Mexique à l'époque de la...

“Conversaciones de estética”, publicado inicialmente en 1966, es el primer libro de L. Lareyson traducido al castellano. Es, en principio, una obra menor entre las que su autor ha escrito, pero recoge con lenguaje sencillo sus ideas fundamentales en un diálogo vivo y nada académico con la estética contemporánea. Son unas verdaderas conversaciones en las que destaca su diálogo con Goethe y Schelling, con Kierkegaard, sus precisiones sobre los tópicos de la estética actual arte y naturaleza, la noción de arte, el público, tradición e innovación, problemática de la forma, etc. , ...

"In August 1592, a sheriff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Fray Juan de la Cruz, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, who died the year before, to his final abode in Segovia. When they find him 'incorrupt and as fresh as when he died,' there is an ecstatic fervor for the friar's body...all kinds of adventures and misfortunes happen, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythological deeds. The story told by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the friar's verses, as if they had prophesied the delirium...