Enigmans literarios

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Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

En este paseo fascinante por tan afamada ciudad durante una de las épocas más complicadas, significativas y, en definitiva, triunfantes de su historia, Agnès Poirier desdevana las historias de los poetas, escritores, pintores y filósofos cuyas vidas confluyeron allí, con consecuencias extraordinarias, entre 1940 y 1950. Nos revela el drama humano que subyace a algunas de las obras más celebradas del siglo pasado, desde el Hijo nativo de Richard Wright, El Segundo sexo de Simone de Beauvoir y La habitación de Giovanni de James Baldwin a Esperando a Godot, de Samuel Beckett y el Augie...

De la mano de dos expertos, Javier Sierra y Jesús Callejo, nos adentramos en la España más misteriosa, desconocida, inquietante y asombrosa. Desde objetos voladores no identifi cados a apariciones misteriosas, pasando por reliquias o santuarios de origen desconocido, los autores recogen las historias que viven en la memoria colectiva de este país.