Umbral: Crónicas Y Relatos Yuxtapuestos

Que pensaba Roberto Rossellini sobre el cine, el arte al que dedico practicamente toda su vida? Cuales eran sus opiniones sobre sus propias peliculas y sobre el futuro de un lenguaje que el contribuyo enormemente a renovar? La mayor parte de los textos que componen este libro corresponden al dialogo casi ininterrumpido que Rossellini mantuvo con los redactores de Cahiers du cinema en los anos cincuenta y sesenta. Jacques Rivette, FranC'ois Truffaut o Eric Rohmer, entre otros, lo habian convertido en uno de sus "maestros," y lo habian hecho basandose no en su condicion de "padre del...

Este libro parte de la idea de que en el contexto actual realidad y ciencia ficción son una misma cosa. Por un lado, la ciencia ficción ha ido evolucionando de una forma dinámica, incorporando el pulso de la realidad para (re)interpretarla mediante sus propios mitos, enriquecidos no solo con la forma audiovisual sino con un abundante equipaje conceptual y estético procedente de la literatura, la ilustración, el cómic e incluso la divulgación científica. Por otro lado, los estilemas del género se han incorporado definitivamente al imaginario popular, en los campos de la publicidad, el ...

The most evil and wickedness man in the world, this is but one of the many misconceptions that have come down to us about Aleister Crowley. Most of which are in fact not true, or were misrepresentation's created in part by the newspapers and in part by Crowley himself. Crowley was in fact an artist, poet, playwright, mountaineer, explorer, magus, bisexual, a drug user, and even on an occasion a spy. Here for the first time are collected together some of Crowley's best play's showing just how talented a playwright Aleister Crowley actually was.

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...