Sireno, sireno! / Siren, Siren

Success-it's something everyone hopes for but few have the fortitude and endurance necessary to achieve it, especially when confronted by one adversity after another. Lupe Cordoba knows that hard work and determination are the traits necessary to achieve success, and she used these strong personal qualities to rise to her position as a nationally acclaimed restaurateur. Cordoba seemed to encounter nothing but hardships and obstacles throughout her life, and in La Morenita: The Story of Lupe Cordoba, she candidly illustrates how her life developed from an idyllic childhood in a small Mexican...

Aleric, el Halconero, es un joven campesino de la Bretaña francesa medieval que crece conociendo bien la miseria extrema y la brutalidad del mundo mortal. En los bosques aprende a comunicarse con las aves predadoras que los habitan y logra entrar al servicio del barón como halconero. Tras enamorarse de la hija de éste y ser desterrado por ello a luchar en las cruzadas, el Halconero cae en los brazos de la vampira Pythia que lo utiliza para alimentarse y para sus juegos eróticos. Convertido finalmente en vampiro, el Halconero descubre su verdadero destino: convertirse en el largamente...

The aim of this anthology is to present a selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture. The plays shun the earlier realistic, sentimental, and melodramatic conventions of Spanish American theater. Instead, they reflect the tenor of the dramatic imagination of the mid-to-late twentieth century—an imagination that sought new forms and ways of expressing a new awareness of the Spanish American dilemma. In selecting these plays, William I. Oliver looked for more than mere illustrations of these changes. As a...

Las interioridades Rosas contra el viento La fauna afectiva En el tejado, el violinista La nave de los albatros El hombre tras la cortina