“Jack and the box” by Art Spiegelman “Jack just got a new toy, and it's full of surprises. Each time the box pops open, there's a new and bigger surprise. Is it a silly toy, a scary toy…or something else entirely? With a limited vocabulary and unlimited imagination, Art Spiegelman applies his out-of-the-box thinking to
"Crisis? What crisis? Spain in search of its path” edition by Walther L. Bernecker, Diego Íñiguez Hernández, Günther Maihold “The book contains ten of the articles presented and discussed at the International Congress of the same name. This congress was organized in Berlin, during the month of April 2009, at the German Institute for Political
“Toponymic Atlas of Spain” by Jairo Javier García Sánchez “The Toponymic Atlas of Spain represents a novelty within the bibliographic panorama of Spanish toponymy. It is the first toponymic work in Spain as a whole that classifies and explains place names with the help of illustrative maps –89 in total– and since
“Letter to the mother and complete stories” by Esther Tusquets “In the seventies Esther Tusquets brought to the Spanish narrative a different feminine vision of the world, more in keeping with the times. To the cycle of stories entitled Seven looks at the same landscape and to the compilation The lunatic girl and other stories we now add
“Modern and avant-garde: women and democracy in the Second Republic” by Mercedes Gómez Blesa “The modernization process that Spain underwent during the Second Republic cannot be understood without the incorporation of women into the political, labor and cultural life of the time. In fact, that incorporation is one of the most revealing signs and symptoms
“Language as culture: a critique of the discourse on language” by Enrique Bernárdez “Neither linguistics nor, certainly, language itself are outside the sociopolitical tensions of the present. In this new book, with his usual rigor and clarity, Enrique Bernárdez reviews our concept of language and argues, against the isolationism that has
“The object and the aura: visual (dis) order of modern art” by Juan Antonio Ramírez “This book defends the idea that the artistic transformations of modernity help us to understand what the system that was called into question consisted of , and vice versa, since it is within the framework of tradition
“El don de Vorace” by Félix Francisco Casanova “Félix Francisco Casanova wrote El don de Vorace in 44 days. It was the summer of 1974 and he was 17 years old. A literary vomit that, in a state of grace -and almost in a trance-, recounted the infernal spiral of Bernardo Vorace, a man in free fall after believing himself to be immortal
“El material humano” by Rodrigo Rey Rosa “Rodrigo Rey Rosa's new book is presented as a novel, but it takes place on the quicksand between the fictional and the historical. With the loose and apparently light form of the journal of notes and notes, Rey Rosa eludes the novel of characters, and the narration
Catalog of the exhibition “The generation of 27: is that moment already a legend?” “On the occasion of the exhibition The Generation of 27. Is that moment already a legend?, the State Society for Cultural Commemorations (SECC), the Junta de Andalucía and the Residencia de Estudiantes have co-published a catalog that includes essential aspects of the