Sueños de cloaca

Las Aliagas, de Santiago López Castillo finalista del Premio Ateneo de Sevilla de 1997 , es una metáfora sobre la incesante peregrinación en los años sesenta desde la España deprimida hacia otras zonas prósperas, en busca de un anhelado futuro. Con esa ilusión sale de su tierra una familia extremeña, casi esclavizada por los señoritos en un mundo de cerdos, bellotas y cacerías, y embriagada por el aroma de las aliagas, una planta de atractivas flores amarillas pero custodiadas de peligrosas espinas. Pedro y Piedad pronto saborearán la cruda realidad del falso progreso: la amarga...

"A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing. In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp where he is sent. Seven decades later in Los Angeles, ten-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest tricks. But the track in...

La joven periodista Megan Lewis encuentra el cadáver de su vecina cuando pasa a recoger a su perra, un caniche al que Emily cuida cuando ella está trabajando. La mujer ha sido cruelmente asesinada y Megan necesita descubrir la verdad que se esconde...

This edition makes available for the first time in Spanish the major definitive work, first published in 1970, on The Spanish Drama of Pathos. The study surveys the dramatic aspect of Spain’s movement towards modern thinking or "enlightenment". The work falls into two volumes. The first ("High Tragedy") evaluates the better known authors, the scholar-dramatists, with special reference to their European context and to the Spanish activity of the period in translation, opera and parody. Volume 2 ("Low Tragedy") deals with the little-known playwrights who were, nonetheless, of great historical ...