Los vikingos

Los ochenta constituyen una década muy particular de nues¬tro presente histórico contemporáneo. Durante ese intervalo de tiempo se iniciaron procesos cuyas repercusiones se extienden hasta el día de hoy. De ahí que no sea extraño que muchos de los análisis de la contemporaneidad más inmediata se vean inducidos a dirigir su mirada hacia esos años crucia¬les para comprender los fenómenos en sus orígenes. Cuestiones tales como el capitalismo global y sus crisis episódicas, la islamización de las sociedades del Medio Oriente, el ascenso de China, el nuevo mapa geopolítico y...

En el periodo comprendido entre dos guerras mundiales, se describen las profundas mutaciones, económicas, sociales, institucionales y mentales, que han ido transformando nuestro mundo.

This study offers a profound study of Arrufat's play, using most recent critical trends concerning the performance aspect of the drama. It examines the genre of the drama and its relationship to the phenomenon of the Cuban Revolution, Arrufat as a Cuban playwright of the 60s and his re-writing of the Greek theme of the fratricidal fight in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Also contains a recent interview with Arrufat in which he describes the social circumstances surrounding the play and some of his classical re-writing techniques.

The most famous cathedrals in Europe are being ransacked in a strange succession of events. Relics of the Passion of Christ disappear and are replaced by copies while the Vatican and the police are powerless to prevent it. At the same time, Europol start looking into the mysterious killings of two university professors whose only apparent connection is their specialisation, the roots of Christianity in Ethiopia. Embroiled in a series of events that are spiralling out of control, the main characters are faced with an obscure sect set on seeing the apocalypse foretold by their leader come into...