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What would you do if you found out you only had months to live? In Jenny Downham's debut novel, Tessa must grapple with this situation. This book will make all readers reflect upon the true value of things.

Un autor es un antes que nada un lector. En La distracción Sergio Missana nos invita a seguir los recorridos de sus lecturas por heterogéneas tradiciones y épocas. Textos sólidos, muy bien escritos, eruditos; que miran de cerca a sus personajes y a sus creadores comprendiendo disímiles poéticas. Quizás lo más importante para un autor es generar un mundo y dotarlo de lenguaje. Esa es la operación que observa, con lupa, este libro que desentraña la máquina ficcional de Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Bernhard, Doris Lessing, Marcel Proust, Nicanor Parra, entre otros.

In 1981, on the basis of documentary evidence, the authors identified the site of the first public theatre in Alcala de Henares, dating from the time of Cervantes. The building, which had been most recently in use as a cinema, showed evidence of four periods of dramatic activity: the original corral de comedias, an 18th century horse-shoe amphitheatre, an elliptical amphitheatre of Roman period, and the cinema. Research in archives provided a wealth of documentation up to the 19th century, covering all aspects of theatrical life, from the original contract for the construction of the corral...

Book offers a close philosophical look at José Enrique Rodó's ARIELISM, an important component of modernism in Latin American history. The images of Ariel and Caliban come to life as the author analyz-es Rodó's book, Ariel, in context of history and literature. In the face of general Latin American failure, the author looks for answers in cultural mechanisms which are inherent to Latin American history.