Mi hermano Carlos

Lo que se oye desde una silla de El Prado. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Fragmento de la obra —¡Qué noche tan hermosa! —¡Hermosísima! —Y ¡qué calor ha hecho hoy!... Figúrese usted que esta mañana... —Agur... —Adiós... —Muy buenas noches... —Pues, sí, señor; como le iba diciendo a usted... —¡Ja! ¡Ja! ¡Ja! —¿Has conocido a ése? Es aquel que el año pasado... —¡Agua, aguardiente y azucarillos! ¡Agua! —¡Niñas! ¡Niñas! ¡Más despacio! —Tenga usted cuidado, Arturo; ¡que nos llama mamá! —¡Barquillero! —¡Matilde, eres un ángel!... ¡Eres una...

Traumatizado por la muerte de su esposa, el artesano Eliezer Stuitz sobrevive en Venecia, refugiado en el trabajo y la lectura para mitigar su soledad. El rico propietario de un palacio le contrata y le ofrece además, dos regalos; fascinado por uno de ellos, e influido por supersticiones y creencias, Eliezer se obsesionará hasta el límite de la razón.

Leading theater historians and practitioners map a theatrical history that moves from the religious tropes of Medieval Iberia to the postmodern practices of twenty-first-century Spain. Considering work across the different languages of Spain, from vernacular Latin to Catalan, Galician and Basque, this history engages with the work of actors and directors, designers and publishers, agents and impresarios, and architects and ensembles, in indicating the ways in which theater has both commented on and intervened in the major debates and issues of the day. Chapters consider paratheatrical...

Leal recounts his experiences as a "child of the Mexican Revolution, " recalling the entrance of Villa and Zapata into Mexico City. He describes his life in Chicago from 1927 to 1943 and then in the Philippines as a member of the American armed forces. He also discusses his academic career and his contributions to Chicano literary criticism. The unusual format of a conversation between two friends gives readers a taste of the "tertulias" that Don Luis hosts, at which colleagues, friends, and students discuss literature, life, and art, thus reviving the Hispanic tradition of the "literary...