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Little mouse decides to pull a prank his friends the bird and the squirrel by telling him that he has seen a blue wolf. What happens when a blue wolf actually appears?

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...

Zoe and her band hit the Big Apple. Will they be able to prevent a crazy scheme to construct apartment buildings inside the iconic Central Park? For this adventure, they will need all the help they can get!

Un extraordinario ensayo sobre literatura. En 2015 Javier Cercas ocupó en la Universidad de Oxford la cátedra Weidenfeld de Literatura Europea Comparada, honor en el que le habían precedido figuras como George Steiner, Mario Vargas Llosa o Umberto Eco; basándose en las conferencias allí impartidas, Cercas ha escrito un libro que posee la coherencia estructural y la voluntad estilística de una novela. En él realiza una triple y complementaria operación: * En primer lugar formula una originalísima teoría de la novela surgida de su propia experiencia de escritor y de la relectura de...