Nietzsche

Acclaimed authors write about the city of Barcelona, Spain, in a collection that features contributions by Paul Auster, Colm Toibin, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Juan Marsé, among others.

Aquest llibre ofereix una visió del teatre italià del segle XX, els seus millors textos i els seus espectacles. L'autor opera una selecció exigent i l'exposa vinculant-la a una teoria interpretativa global, que li permet plantejar amb originalitat un horitzó articulat del tot el conjunt. El lector trobarà una abundantíssima i rigorosa informació, que comprén gairebé una guia d'autors i obres. En ell consten al costat dels clàssics contemporanis com Pirandello, una revalorització d'excel·lents actors - autors de teatres dialectals com els napolitans Raffaele Viviani i Eduardo De...

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...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...