El Nino Que Sonaba Con Ser Heroe

Thirteen-year-old Marta decides to write a diary about the end of the school year, life with parents who do not understand her, a brother she cannot stand, and her grandmother, and her summer search for adventure--or at least amusement.

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s...

Bohemio y aventurero, Barba Jacob es uno de los grandes poetas de Colombia; viaj por Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Mxico, Estados Unidos y Per, fundando peridicos, escribiendo versos y dejando por donde pas una honda huella en quienes lo conocieron. En el trabajo de escribir su biografa, Vallejo reuni los poemas que el poeta iba dejando dispersos aqu y all. Esta reunin contiene todos sus versos, entre los cuales se pueden contar algunos de los ms bellos que se hayan escrito en espaol.

This book tries to be a proposal for the description of function inside a descriptive semiotic-functional sentence model. The author's purpose is to characterise this function as a symbolic scheme and so, follow Alarcos' model in relation to the category of function.