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Si carta y conversación son dos caras de un mismo espíritu, esta selección de cartas de Diderot a su amante, Sophie Volland, preparada por Laurent Versini—uno de sus mayores especialistas—, nos presenta una obra maestra de la literatura amorosa y, a la vez, un singular espacio de ensayo y encuentro filosófico. En 1755, cuando comienza la relación, Denis tiene cuarenta y un años y Sophie, treinta y nueve. Si Diderot invoca la correspondencia de Abelardo y Eloísa como modelo, lo cierto es que la sucesión de cartas nos muestra una oscilación de lo estrictamente amoroso al diario y...

Tomás Gutier (Tomás Gutiérrez Forero), nace en Andalucía, en el ecuador del siglo pasado, de padre cántabro y madre andaluza. Durante sus estudios toma conciencia de la marginación a la que Andalucía ha sido sometida y no se resigna a ello. Un grito de rebeldía interior le hace bucear en los orígenes de la identidad andaluza. A partir de ahí, abrazó la causa andalucista y la defensa de la nación andaluza. Colaborador en distintas publicaciones. Promotor, desde la Bahía de Cádiz, de medios alternativos de comunicación. Participante activo en cuantas iniciativas se crean a favor...

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was the most admired painter of his time, and was also an eminent humanist, courtier and diplomat. His overwhelming talent and refined personality earned him fame, fortune and happiness. Very few painters of the seventeenth century (not Velázaquez, nor Rembrandt, nor Vermeer) were as influential as he was among his peers, or had a similar degree orf success. In spite of this, Rubens can seem distant to us today. This documentary invites us to travel to his word, and to enter teh exalted version of life that he created in his paintings.

From the Amelia Peabody Mysteries Series With the lengthy ban on their archaeological activities lifted, Amelia Peabody and her family have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922 to delve once more into the age-old mysteries buried in Egypt's ever-shifting sands. But a widow's strange story is about to plunge them into a world of intrigue and adventure. The woman has come bearing an ill-gotten treasure ?a golden likeness of a forgotten king, which she claims, is cursed. Already, she insists, it has taken the life of her husband, and its next victim might well be Amelia Peabody herself.