Conversaciones con la cultura

Esta edici n aumentada de los cl sicos del teatro hispanoamericano, abarca desde los or genes de esa expresi n art stica en nuestro continente hasta mediados del presente siglo. Este segundo tomo re ne las obras m s representativas de la primera mitad de nuestro siglo.

A escribir se aprende leyendo como escritores. Pero conocer las reglas básicas de la escritura permite escribir desde el primer día textos más atractivos. Los textos que no atraigan tienen un recorrido corto en un mundo en el que la comunicación es el centro de cualquier actividad. Por eso, cuando se habla de comunicación escrita se tiene que hablar de escritura eficaz. En este libro me propongo darle pistas para que usted escriba de manera atractiva.

Shortly after Mauricio Goméz switched careers from journalism to painting, a painful condition developed in his right arm and kept him from working. As a result, he began experimenting with new techniques and materials—collage, pigments, and rubber—that he could manipulate using his left hand. Through an exemplary selection of his most recent work, this book presents Mauricio Gómez's new style, which reveals him to be a fighter for whom art is the reason to live. Poco después de que Mauricio Goméz cambió de una carrera periodística a una de arte, una dolorosa afección en su brazo...

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...