La construcción de la modernidad en la literatura española

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...

Desde París hasta el Amazonas. Historias de 15 mujeres que viajan solas. Destacadas periodistas chilenas cuentan sus experiencias viajando a diversos lugares del mundo.

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

El destacado ensayista y escritor se ocupa en este libro de reflexionar sobre la obra de autores que resultaron para él, como dice en el título, una "grata compañía". Así, nos introduce a la lectura de Robert Louis Stevenson, en sus diversos registros, incluso al ensayista que reflexiona sobre los alcances de la escritura. Igualmente, Reyes nos comparte su gozo ante autores como Chesterton, Proust, Goethe, Descartes, en lo que constituye un gratificante paseo por la escritura y la lectura.