“Laughing Thing” by William Saroyan “Evan Nazarenus, an Armenian-born college professor, takes his family to spend some time at his brother's country home in Clovis, California. After a long absence due to work, he wants to resume his relationship with Swan, his wife, and get closer to his little children, Red and Eva, to
“Bridge of sights” by Richard Russo “Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small empire of convenience stores. He's a good man, but he is n't always as reliable as he seems, and he secretly longs for what he ca n't
“Cosmopolitan Madrid: the Gran Vía, 1910-1936” by Edward Baker “The book 'Cosmopolitan Madrid. La Gran Vía 1910-1936', by the American Hispanist Edward Baker, reviews throughout its 224 pages the history of the street, its shops, its evolution and its people, coinciding with the celebration, next April, of the centenary from the start
“Chained” directed by Alfred Hitchcock [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS1K_w4U4Yg] “Notorious, original English title of Yours is my heart (Mexico) or Chained (Spain), is a film of the thriller genre directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1946, and starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as two spies who live a romance in an espionage operation shortly after
“Picasso´s mask” by André Malraux “Upon Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline invited Malraux to help her select a collection of paintings for the Louvre. “Picasso's Mask” contains Malraux's meditations on painting, Picasso, and the future of art”. Extracted from Laie. See also: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Malraux http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso The selected titles are a sample of the materials in the
“Women writers of the Middle Ages” by Peter Dronke “This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts Peter Dronke presents and interprets have hitherto remained unknown, or virtually inaccessible; some have never been edited or translated
“Dalí, Madrid period: catalog raisonné” by Rafael Santos Torroella “Dalí's period in Madrid is, perhaps, one of the periods of his long career as a painter that most clearly demanded a slow analysis and a profound critical review”. Extracted from the back cover of the issue. See also: http://www.residencia.csic.es/pub/07_dalmadr.htm http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Santos_Torroella The selected titles
“Las mocedades de Ramón Pérez de Ayala” by Miguel Pérez Ferrero “Already in the 70s, Miguel, who increasingly resembled the legendary Hollywood duck physically, with his bangs and outbursts, decided to give us, with his own name this great biographical portrait of R. Perez de Ayala that we reissue today
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” directed by Tim Burton [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGem82vCZNM] “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film directed by Tim Burton. The tape stars Johnny Depp, who plays Willy Wonka, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter. Based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, British author of
“The strange islands: an anthology of poetry in the Spanish language (1950-2000)” “Following the example of the historic anthology of poetry Laurel (1941), which had Octavio Paz among its promoters, Las insulas strangers is now published, in the that the greatest poets of Spain and Latin America born between 1910 and 1959 are represented. The only