T.S. Eliot en España

A dazzling sampler, Water Lilies brings to light a rich and until now largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish and English and located within a critical, biographical, and historical overview.

Esta novela nos muestra las vicisitudes de un caballero, convertido en el duque de Gloria por las musas, que se traslada a la capital de Madrid para dejar en evidencia a la sociedad superficial y vanidosa del lugar. El hombre, que llama la atención con su vestimenta exuberante y su atractivo, se dedica a escandalizar la corte señalando sus fallas. En los 24 capítulos que dura esta novela, el duque de la Gloria se burlará de las costumbres burguesas de Madrid y, a su vez, hará una crítica a la literatura española de la época. Un libro que transmite las ideas regeneracionistas de la...

Within the historic events in the 1930's Spain, among whose most important outcome stands the triumph of the Spanish Second Republic (1931), Jose Diaz Fernandez released his book of essays, El Nuevo Romanticismo (The New Romanticism), a compendium of his observations on art, literature, feminism, liberalism, and politics, all five understood as parts of the vital and social processes. Besides being a panoramic scan of the issues that marked the Spanish and European culture during the period between wars, this book expresses a defined will to guide the artistic Avant Gardes and to consolidate...

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...