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Beatrice Giai Gischia
For the first time, the story of Leonida's wife, the hero of Thermopilai, recreated according to Herodotus's texts. This is a very strong woman, educated, emancipated. She lives in Sparta 2500 years ago and fights for women's rights. She lives during the wars between Greeks and Persians and she'll lose her husband in the war, but her bravery and love for the homeland will always remain.
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FictionAll That We Don´t Know
by María de Alva
Four children have to deal with the killing of their father in violent, 1970's Northern Mexico. Grief does not stop because nobody in the family wants to talk about the murder for fear of disrupting family unity. The story is written from the perspective of four narrators. The first is a woman who tries to find the truth using her own recollection, photographs and a USB. A second narrator is a police detective who was the lead investigator of the killing and keeps a detailed file and realizes something doesn´t quite add up. A third narrator is a middle-aged woman, facing a cancer diagnosis and who, in the middle of treatment, starts remembering things about her father. The novel takes us deep into the dark wolrd of the 23 September Communist guerrilla in Mexico, weaving elements of historical fact and fiction, and trying desperately to answer questions about the need to for the truth.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013The world of El Cid
Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest
by Simon Barton, Richard Fletcher
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fascinating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes.
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October 2013Letters from Alfonso
by Earl Kessler
Construction, development projects, slum improvement -- rewarding work for Peace Corps volunteer Earl Kessler. But when residents of a Colombian town wiped out by flood took the future into their own hands, his life intersected with that of Alfonso Perez Correa, and he learned lessons in local participation and empowerment that have helped bring success in meeting community needs all over the world.
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September 1994Jorge Semprún erzählt seine deutsche Geschichte
2 Bände: Die große Reise. Aus dem Französischen von Abelle Christaller. – Was für ein schöner Sonntag! Aus dem Französischen von Johannes Piron
by Jorge Semprún, Johannes Piron, Abelle Christaller
Jorge Semprún wurde am 10. Dezember 1923 in Madrid geboren. Mit 14 Jahren musste er bei Beginn des spanischen Bürgerkrieges mit seiner Familie nach Paris fliehen. Dort besuchte er das Lycée Henri IV und studiert Philosophie an der Sorbonne. 1941 trat er unter dem Pseudonym ›Gérard‹ der kommunistischen Résistance-Bewegung ›Francs-Tireurs et Partisans‹ bei. Die deutsche Gestapo verhaftete ihn 1943, und Semprun wurde in das KZ Buchenwald deportiert. Nach der Befreiung 1945 kehrte er nach Paris zurück. Ab 1953 koordinierte er als Mitglied des ZK der spanischen Exil-KP im Geheimen den Widerstand gegen das Franco-Regime in Paris. Unter dem Pseudonym Federico Sánchez arbeitete er zwischen 1957 und 1962 im Untergrund der kommunistischen Partei im franquistischen Spanien. 1964 wurde er wegen Abweichung von der Parteilinie aus der KP ausgeschlossen. Seitdem widmete sich Semprun seiner schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit. In den sechziger Jahren wurde er erstmals als Drehbuchautor bekannt; mit berühmten Filmen wie beispielsweise La guerre est finie (Der Krieg ist aus) von 1966, Z von 1968 und L'aveu (Das Geständnis) von 1970. Nach seiner Amtszeit als spanischer Kultusminister von 1988 - 1991 lebte Jorge Semprún bis zu seinem Tod (2011) in Paris.
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April 2007Über-Empfindlichkeit
Spielformen der Idiosynkrasie
by Silvia Bovenschen
Manchmal sind es die unwichtigsten Kleinigkeiten des Alltags, gegen die man eine heftige Abneigung entwickelt – seien es die Haut auf der Milch, Männer in Sandalen oder das Quietschen von Kreide auf der Schultafel. Jeder kennt solche skurrilen, absurden Abneigungen, jeder hat seine eigenen unerklärlichen Überempfindlichkeiten. Silvia Bovenschen nähert sich diesem Phänomen aus den verschiedensten Richtungen: Sie grenzt es vom Ekel wie vom Schmerz ab, stellt Überlegungen an über die Beziehungen zwischen Idiosynkrasie und Flucht beim Zigarettenholen und versucht ein Porträt des Schweizers als Verbrecher. Auf diese Weise ist ein aufregendes, vergnügliches und kluges Buch über eine unserer so wichtigen Unwichtigkeiten des täglichen Lebens entstanden. »Silvia Bovenschen macht uns die Freude, mit ihrem versiert und kenntnisreich geschriebenen Buch ein unterschätztes Empfindungsphänomen zu erschließen.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung »Über-Empfindlichkeit gehört zu der kleinen Familie der Bücher, aus denen man vorlesen möchte, anstatt über sie Bericht zu erstatten. « Die Zeit Silvia Bovenschen studierte Literaturwissenschaft, Soziologie und Philosophie und lebt als freie Publizistin in Berlin. 2000 erhielt sie den Heinrich-Merck-Preis für Essayistik. Im Suhrkamp Verlag liegt von ihr Die imaginierte Weiblichkeit (es 2431) vor. Zuletzt erschien Älter werden (2006).
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Dulce María Loynaz. Ensayos (Dulce María Loynaz. Essays)
by Dulce María Loynaz
This book join a group of Literary Essays of Dulce María Loynaz.
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Literature & Literary StudiesPoemas Náufragos (Castaway Poems)
by Dulce María Loynaz
Book of poems written by the Miguel de Cervantes Awarded cuban poet Dulce María Loynaz.
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Rebel territories
by Raúl Zibechi
Raúl Zibechi is one of the most important researchers of social struggles in Latin America, and his work expresses a fundamental tradition of radical thought in the region, which is closely connected to territories and collective movements. Despite his immense relevance, only a very small part of his work has been published in Portuguese. This collection aims to help remedy this publishing gap in Brazil, but also to reverberate a type of intervention that takes up the autonomist hypothesis of struggles, in order to continue thinking and walking with those who resist on a continent conflagrated by the permanent war against peoples. It is not as an intellectual or illustrious avant-garde theoretician that this Uruguayan writer, activist and journalist appears to those who come across his texts and interventions. Zibechi appears to us, first and foremost, through the movements he accompanies, through his complicity with those who fight and think with their feet on the ground. This attitude is reflected in the form of his texts, which are marked by direct and open language, without academicism and committed to the circulation of issues as they are formulated in the contexts in which they arise.
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December 1983
Morels Erfindung
Roman. Mit einem Nachwort von Jorge Luis Borges. Aus dem Spanischen übersetzt von Karl August Horst
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Karl August Horst, Jorge Luis Borges
Adolfo Bioy Casares wurde am 15. September 1914 in Buenos Aires (Argentinien) geboren. 1932 lernte er im Haus der Essayistin und Literaturkritikerin Victoria Ocampo Jorge Luis Borges kennen und zwei Jahre darauf seine spätere Frau Silvina Ocampo, die ihn gemeinsam mit Borges überzeugte, sein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften und der Philosophie aufzugeben und sich ganz der Literatur zu widmen. 1940 veröffentlichte er La invención de Morel (dt. Morels Erfindung, Neuübersetzung von 2003), sein wohl bekanntester Roman und inzwischen ein Klassiker der phantastischen Literatur. 1954, das Jahr in dem seine einzige Tochter, Marta, geboren wurde, veröffentlichte er El sueño de los héroes (dt. Der Traum der Helden), einen seiner durch Thematik, Sprach- und Lokalkolorit »argentinischen« Romane. Unter den gemeinsamen Pseudonymen H. Bustos Domecq und B. Suárez Lynch verfaßte er mit Borges zusammen zahlreiche Erzählungen, unter anderem die Kriminalgeschichten Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (dt. Sechs Aufgaben für Don Isidro Parodi). 1990 erhielt Bioy Casares den bedeutendsten Literaturpreis der spanischsprachigen Welt: den Premio Cervantes. Er starb 1999 in Buenos Aires.
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Die Intervall-Woche
Arbeitest du noch oder lebst du schon? Der einfachste Weg zu NEW WORK (inkl. Intervalltypen-Test und New-Work-Skills)
by Seiwert, Lothar Sperling, Silvia
Intervals are everywhere. They structure our daily routine and scheduleour lives. However, we have forgotten how to live in tune withoutbiorhythm making us feel stressed and exhausted. The well-knowntime management expert, Lothar Seiwert, and economics journalist, Silvia Sperling, do more than just show the importance of intervals for our lives. Their exercise book also functions as a recipe to resynchronise our daily routine with our natural biology. By using the BOSS method everyone can learn to shape their daily life more efficiently,to work more productively and creatively, and in doing so develop themselves. At the same time, “The Interval Week” also comments on the current societal discourse around shorter working hours and new working time models.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2000The world of El Cid
Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fasincating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes. ;
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Carta de Egipto (Letter from Egypt)
by Dulce María Loynaz
Poetry Book of Dulce María Loynaz written as a love letter to the Egiptian King Tut Ank Amon.
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May 2001Unsre allzu kurzen Sommer
by Jorge Semprún, Eva Moldenhauer
"Herausgerissen aus der Idylle des Sommerferienortes San Sebastian, flieht die Familie Semprun - der katholisch-republikanische Vater und seine sieben Kinder - vor dem spanischen Bürgerkrieg nach Frankreich. Vorbei ist für den jungen Jorge und seine Geschwister das unbeschwerte Leben ihrer Kindheit, über die allein der frühe Tod der geliebten Mutter einen Schatten warf. Es ist das Jahr 1936; von nun an wird das Leben immer schwieriger werden. Die folgenden drei Jahre, bis zum Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs, verbringt Jorge Semprun in Paris. Von den »allzu kurzen Sommern« in Paris handelt also dieses Buch, und es »berichtet von der Entdeckung der Adoleszenz und des Exils, der Geheimnisse von Paris, der Welt, der Weiblichkeit. Die Erfahrung von Buchenwald hat nichts damit zu tun, wirft keinerlei Schatten darauf. Beim Schreiben glaubte ich, eine verlorene Freiheit wiederzufinden, als entrisse ich mich der Abfolge von Zufällen und Entscheidungen, die mir am Ende eine Art Schicksal beschert haben. Eine Biographie, wenn man es weniger feierlich sagen will« (Jorge Semprun)."
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The ArtsJune 2021Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre
by Jay Beck, Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the reader a thorough account of the relationship between Spanish cinema and genre, drawing on case studies of several of the most remarkable Spanish films in recent years. The book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish film from 1990 onwards. It brings together European and North American scholars to establish a critical dialogue on the topics under discussion, while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory. In recent years film scholarship has attempted to negotiate the tension between the nationally specific and the internationally ubiquitous, discussing how globalisation has influenced film making and surrounding cultural practice. These broader social concerns have prompted scholars to emphasise a redefinition of national cinemas beyond strict national boundaries and to pay attention to the transnational character of any national site of film production and reception. This collection provides a thorough investigation of contemporary Spanish cinema within a transnational framework, by positing cinematic genres as the meeting spaces between a variety of diverse forces that necessarily operate within but also across territorial spaces. Paying close attention to the specifics of the Spanish cinematic and social panorama, the essays investigate the transnational economic, cultural and aesthetic forces at play in shaping Spanish film genres today.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre
by Jay Beck, Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the reader a thorough account of the relationship between Spanish cinema and genre, drawing on case studies of several of the most remarkable Spanish films in recent years. The book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish film from 1990 onwards. It brings together European and North American scholars to establish a critical dialogue on the topics under discussion, while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory. In recent years film scholarship has attempted to negotiate the tension between the nationally specific and the internationally ubiquitous, discussing how globalisation has influenced film making and surrounding cultural practice. These broader social concerns have prompted scholars to emphasise a redefinition of national cinemas beyond strict national boundaries and to pay attention to the transnational character of any national site of film production and reception. This collection provides a thorough investigation of contemporary Spanish cinema within a transnational framework, by positing cinematic genres as the meeting spaces between a variety of diverse forces that necessarily operate within but also across territorial spaces. Paying close attention to the specifics of the Spanish cinematic and social panorama, the essays investigate the transnational economic, cultural and aesthetic forces at play in shaping Spanish film genres today.
