Literatura y cine en España 1975-1995

Para los antiguos griegos, el descubrimiento de la belleza coincidió con la intuición del universo. El mundo se mostró, ante sus ojos sorprendidos, en todo el esplendor de un kósmos, es decir, de un "orden bello", un sistema coherente de partes organizadas según un criterio teleológico, capaz de suscitar un sentimiento de admiración y de emulación al mismo tiempo; ese sentimiento que, como dirá posteriormente Aristóteles, da origen a la filosofía. La estética antigua creó los principales conceptos y abordó los problemas fundamentales que posteriormente nos permitieron comprender ...

Pancho the elephant is captured and is sold to the circus. There he befriends a monkey and a mouse that are as unhappy as he is. The three decide to escape and return home. Children will respond to the book's great humor, sensitivity, and unique paper collage illustrations.

Paul Cé zanne (1839-1906) is considered the greatest of the postimpressionists and, with Gauguin and Van Gogh, a key figure in the development of 20th-century art. His achievements are well displayed in this large-format, sumptuously illustrated Spanish-language entry in the Big Art series. This solid sampling is punctuated by commentary by Cé zanne expert Hajo Dü chting.

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...