Fernando Arrabal: Oráculo entre cielo y tierra

El detective de ficción ha sido durante más de un siglo un icono de masas. Sus orígenes hay que buscarlos en un tipo de investigador que en la vida real era un simple trabajador asalariado, pero la industria cultural popular lo adoptó y lo transformó en un personaje duro y atractivo con un código moral propio.En este ensayo pionero, John Walton combina historia social y cultural para relatar el intrincado proceso de génesis y evolución de una leyenda, que tiene sus raíces en la creación de las primeras agencias de investigadores y que culmina con la edad dorada del género negro. Un ...

As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragicIn January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective...

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) fue tal vez el mas influyente teorico independiente que emerge de la "transformacion estructuralista" posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y abre el campo teorico al posmodernismo. Mas que sus contemporaneos Roland Barthes y Ja

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...