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Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

This new and spectacular series of more than 180 paintings, all of them chosen by Fernando Botero himself, and 50 of which have never been published before, reveal the essence of the feminine in his work. Four drawings on acetate inserts that Botero created exclusively for this book and an essay on the work of Botero written by the famous Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes complements this impressive survey of Botero's work. Esta nueva selección de las pinturas de Fernando Botero, es una nueva y espectacular serie de más de 180 pinturas, 50 de ellas hasta ahora inéditas y escogidas por el...

Los artículos recogidos en esta publicación son un extracto de diferentes intervenciones relacionadas con el trabajo de investigación El valor económico del español. Una empresa multinacional, promovido por Fundación Telefónica entre 2007 y 2009, con entidad suficiente para aportar reflexiones de muy distinta índole sobre el pasado, presente y futuro de un patrimonio lingüístico común. Los autores, personalidades destacadas de una y otra orilla del Atlántico, comparten, además, el hecho de haber participado en distintos actos relacionados con dicho proyecto de investigación, un...

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