Shakespeare y sus traductores

Izzy is always shuffling, jiggling, squirming and twitching. She just can't keep still! So when Izzy's school go on a trip to the zoo, her teacher warns her to behave. She must never wriggle, she must never fidget and she must certainly NEVER TICKLE A TIGER! But does Izzy listen? She does NOT - and what happens next throws the zoo into complete chaos. With eye-catching illustrations by the internationally acclaimed bestselling illustrator, Marc Boutavant, Never Tickle a Tiger will amaze and delight children and parents alike! It includes a spectacular double gatefold for the grand chaotic...

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Este libro es un reflejo de la capacidad crítica, la síntesis, la cultura universal, la curiosidad insaciable, el rechazo al conservadurismo y la habilidad para construir metáforas visuales de Carlos Monsiváis. Reúne, por primera vez, 48 textos de crítica cultural, social, política y literaria. La mayoría de ellos publicados originalmente en el encarte La cultura en México de la revista Siempre!

This book contains essays in Spanish and English. The essays in this collection are distinctive in their critical approach to a wide variety of topics. Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile are represented by some of their major literary figures in poetry (Valencia, Mistral, Neruda, Torres Bodet) or prose fiction (Asturias, Gallegos, Garcia Marquez). The four concluding studies on Von Humboldt, La Condamine, Gerstacker and Zweig are valuable in that they present historical, political, sociological, geographical and/or scientific concerns in a cross-cultural context."