“Cervantes and modernity: four essays on Don Quijote” by EC Graf “The first comprehensive attempt to theorize Cervantes as a modern, this is also a timely study which addresses Don Quijote's relevance for thinking about such controversial issues as the relation between Islam and Christianity as well as sociopolitical movements and value systems like feminism
“History of Portugal“ by David Birmingham “The concise and illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the culture and people of the country, its three empires in Asia, America and Africa and its quest in Europe for economic modernization, a political stability and an international consortium”. Taken from
“The lovely bones: a novel” by Alice Sebold “In “the book of memory” the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, “A”, contemplates his separation from him from his son from him, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of story-telling and writing. Extracted from the cover of the issue. See also: http://www.rtlibrary.org/lovelybones.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Sebold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones The titles
“The reader” directed by Stephen Daldry [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_VZvgd2R1Q] “The base of the film is already a success. Bernhard Schlink, German lawyer and almost unknown writer, came out of his anonymity in 1995 thanks to a partially autobiographical novel in which Nazism was considered from one of the few prisms that still remained on this barbarity
“Written in an instant” by Antonio Muñoz Molina “What matters most about a writer is not that he invents some memorable character. It matters that it is invented from nothing and solitude to a few readers, to just one. To write is to speak to someone whom we do not know, it is to throw a stone at
“Dismantling Cela” by Tomás García Yebra “This book speaks of the human and literary attitude of Camilo José Cela. He was a singular and contradictory man. A man who made mistakes, but also a writer who left indelible pages. He was the best ambassador of himself and he knew how to see like few others that the biggest business
“Tomorrow in the battle think on me” by Javier Marías “Published throughout Europe to widespread acclaim, TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK OF ME is a masterfully crafted mystery, a subtle and complex novel of a man trapped by a terrible secret. Marta invites Victor, whom she had met only a few days before, to dinner
“Barrio de marvels” by Rosa Chacel “Yes, with her first novel “Estación. Round trip” Rosa Chacel was 30 years ahead of the most experimental and distancing that literature has given, the French “Nouveau roman”, with “Barrio Maravillas” she approaches the reader and offers her what she detects as the pulse of
“In the image: a novel” by Dara Horn “Seamlessly weaving its deeper preoccupations into a narrative thoroughly absorbing and satisfying, In the Image follows a young New Jersey woman, Leora, through the death of a friend in high school and on to college , career, and falling in love. Simultaneously, it traces the story of Bill
“The gray house” by Josefina Aldecoa “Nobody dares to reveal what time is hiding. London, 1950. Teresa, a Spanish woman who has just finished her degree, arrives at a London residence for university students. In the months that her stay will last, she will meet a group of women from different social classes and nationalities who