El Sicario de Poetas

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...

Este libro registra las más de diez mil películas estrenadas en el Perú desde 1950 hasta 1969; se consignan índices de títulos y de realizadores, y se presenta un balance tanto del cine que se hacía en esa época como del que se vio entre nosotros. Es una obra de utilidad para estudiantes de cine y de comunicaciones y para todos aquellos que se interesan por el fenómeno audiovisual en el siglo XX.

El presente texto no se trata ni de un documental, un ensayo o periodismo ni aún, ciencia, política o historia, se trata de ciencia ficción o en todo caso pseudo historia. Esta aclaración tiene sólo por objeto resolver la cuestión sobre qué ubicación tendrá en la bibilioteca.

"Sensuous, voluptuous, provocative--the female form has inspired artists for centuries, making it perhaps the most popular subject in the history of painting. Since Venetian painter Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, the first notable female nude in Western painting, painters have focused their talents on the infinite possibilities of the representation of the female body. Featuring lush, full-page illustrations of masterpieces of the genre, Reclining Nude is a feast for the senses. From Titian's alluring Venus of Urbino to Manet's guileless Olympia, Reclining Nude provides a fascinating tour of the ...