Friday / “Hidden Spain” by Cristina García Rodero Considered one of the most outstanding and creatively transcendent photographers in Spain, it was at the university level that she began in the field of photography. Without ever leaving the classroom, she will dedicate herself ever since to investigating popular celebrations with her camera,
Thursday / “The Two Faces of January” by Patricia Highsmith The book revolves around American characters, but is set in Athens, Crete, and Paris. It involves a swindler, Chester MacFarland, who accidentally kills a Greek policeman who is investigating him. MacFarland's wife, Collette, and an American student, Rydal Keener, become involved in covering up the
Wednesday / “This is how Carnaby Street was founded” by Leopoldo María Panero SNOW WHITE SAYS GOODBYE TO THE SEVEN DWARFS I promise to write to you, handkerchiefs that are lost on the horizon, laughter that pales, faces that fall weightlessly onto the damp grass, where the spiders now weave their blue fabrics. In the forest house they creak,
Tuesday / “The bell jar” by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel which was first published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The Bell Jar has become a classic of American literature. “I guess I should have been excited the way most
Monday / “Memories of a woman without a piano” by Jeanne Rucar de Buñuel “After the death of Luis Buñuel, Jeanne Rucar decided to publish an autobiography entitled Memories of a woman without a piano, written in collaboration with the journalist Marisol Martín del Campo, edited in Spain in 1991 by Alianza and for which
Friday / Juana Gil Fernández, Phonetics for Spanish Teachers: from Theory to Practice The fundamental purpose of this work is to provide the teacher of Spanish as a foreign language with the necessary theoretical knowledge about the phonetics of Spanish and the methodological resources available to face the task of teaching
Thursday / “En el Último Azul” by Carme Riera The historical events on which En el Último Azul is based took place in Mallorca between 1687 and 1691. On March 7, 1687, a group of Majorcan Jewish converts, fearing being arrested by the Inquisition, they decided to embark towards lands of freedom.
Wednesday / “Captain Alatriste” by Arturo Pérez Reverte “He was not the most honest nor the most pious man, but he was a brave man”… With these words begins Captain Alatriste, the story of a veteran soldier from the Tercios of Flanders who he survives as a paid swordsman in the Madrid of the XNUMXth century. Their
Tuesday / “The frozen heart” by Almudena Grandes Grandes, Almudena (1960- ) The frozen heart / Almudena Grandes. — 3rd ed. — Barcelona: Tusquets, 2007. — 933 p. ; 21cm — (Wanderings Collection; 625). ISBN 978-84-8310-373-9 PQ 6657.R32 C6 2007 A colossal exercise in historical memory that runs to around a thousand pages, where
Monday: “Sisters” by Josefina Aldecoa Aldecoa, Josefina (1926- ) Sisters / Josefina Aldecoa. — [Madrid]: Alfaguara, [2005]. – 225 p.; 23cm ISBN 978-84-204-7424-3 PQ 6651.L39 H47 2008 Josefina Aldecoa unleashes her most reflective and evocative voice in this story of two sisters who masterfully represent two types