Come to the “tellebration” with us! Monthly Saturday morning meetings where kids can enjoy selected stories in English, with Amy Eckmeder as storyteller. Participation is free. Register at library@iie.es January storytelling around the book: “The way I feel” by Janan Cain Saturday, January 31th 2008, 12 am Recommended links for parents
Summary of this issue: *Andrea E. Morris, Performing Dance/Writing Dance: Embodiment and the Question of Female Agency in Afro-Antillean Poetry and Culture *Paula Di Dio, “Menuda faena…” The shadow of the walker by Ena Lucía Portela and their representations of evil *Wendell Smith, Rescuing Damsels: Chivalry and Salic Law in the Chronicle of Fernando del Pulgar
Summary of this issue: * Revealing Beauty/Revealing History in The Dream of Venice. Maria Elena Solino. * Confinement, Consolation, and Confession in Galdós's La desheredada. Liana Ewald. * The Politics of Form: Three Twentieth-Century Spanish American Poets and the Sonnet. Jill S. Kuhnheim. * Complaint and univocity: the narration of the Trujillato. Ana Gallego Cuinas. *
Friday / “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote At the end of 1959 Truman Capote (1924-1984) read in the New York Times the news of the murder of the four members of a family of farmers in a remote Kansas town, at the hands of a couple of guys who made off with ridiculous loot. It was about
Exhibition "The Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in the Second Republic: Architecture and University during the 30s" On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the inauguration of the building of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in the University City, the two faculties that currently occupy said building (Faculty of Philology and Philosophy of the UCM)
The philologist Inés Fernández-Ordóñez has become the fourth academic woman of the Language -together with Ana María Matute, Carmen Iglesias and Margarita Salas-, after being elected in the third round of voting. Ordóñez, who will occupy the capital "P" seat, has described her appointment as "magnificent news for all women." Fernandez-Ordonez (Madrid,
Thursday / “Everything is illuminated” directed by Liev Schreiber [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahx4q58PBVE] A young Jewish American flies to the Ukraine in search of his grandfather's past. He has a photograph and the name of a village. He hires the Odessa Heritage Tours, made up of a gruff old man and his English-speaking grandson. The three, plus grandfather's
The first thing that was known in Barcelona about Francisco Casavella was his nightclub smile and his awkward figure of a writer disguised under which the great sentimentalists of literature protect themselves. It was when he burst in – he was 27 years old – with El triumph, the novel about the Barcelona gypsy. Yesterday mid-afternoon, when his
Wednesday / “The city of the dead: the tragedy of Ciudad Juárez” Marcos Fernández and Jean-Christophe Rampal In Ciudad Juárez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, near the border with the United States, almost 400 women have been murdered since 1993, and still today more than five hundred are still missing. However, more than ten years
1. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 2. Lush Life by Richard Price 3. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld 4. Anathem by Neal Stephenson 5. Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri 6. Personal Days by Ed Park 7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 8. When Will There Be Good