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April 2004Du kamst, Vogel, Herz, im Flug
Spanische Lyrik der Gegenwart
by Javier Gómez-Montero, Petra Strien-Bourmer, Manfred Bös, Thomas Brovot, Ludger Damm, Julia Gramberg, Alexandra Ihmig, Martin Koppenfels, Susanne Lange, Franck Meyer, Theres Moser, Gerhard Poppenberg, Petra Strien-Bourmer, Javier Gómez-Montero
Erst in den sechziger Jahren erholte sich die Lyrik in Spanien vom Schock des Bürgerkriegs und vom Druck der alles erstickenden Franco-Diktatur. Langsam, aber unüberhörbar erhoben sich die Stimmen junger Autoren, deren Gedichte mit kraftvollen Sprachbildern ästhetische Paradigmen und ethische Grundmuster für die Lyrik unserer Gegenwart entwerfen. Heute sind diese Stimmen unverwechselbar geworden; jede einzelne kann den Status eines Klassikers der Moderne beanspruchen. Ob mit leicht zugänglicher Alltags- und Gedankenlyrik oder mit hermetischen, auf den ersten Blick schwer erschließbaren Texten: Diese Lyriker erdichten den Standort für den Menschen aufs neue – in immer wieder überraschenden Wendungen.Die Anthologie versammelt ein Dutzend dieser poetischen Stimmen, herausragende Beispiele der spanischen Gegenwartslyrik, die selbstbewußt das Erbe der international bekannten Großen der ersten spanischen Moderne – Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Pedro Salinas – antreten: José Ángel Valente, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Leopoldo M. Panero, José Agustín Goytisolo, Carlos Barral, José Hierro, Pere Gimferrer, Ángel González, Juan-Eduardo Cirlot, Antonio Gamoneda, Ángel Crespo, Clara Janés.
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May 2016La mujer de la guarda
by Sara Bertrand, Alejandra Algorta
Jacinta wants to know how her mother is able to breathe inside the coffin, but her aunts tell her it’s better if she concentrates in taking care of her brothers. Jacinta remembers some things about her mum, like the sound of the spoon in the cup when she stirred the milk until it was smooth. When her father arrives early, Jacinta and her brothers eat together and laugh at dessert time when he draws milk toffees and chewing gum from behind their ears. Jacinta is a weirdo in a world where other children have a mother. Jacinta has no guardian angel, but a woman traveling on a blue horse watches over her.
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FictionFin de temporada
by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
A road along the Portuguese border, June 1977. Juan and Rosa, little more than adolescents, have an appointment in a clandestine abortion clinic, but an accident keeps them from reaching their destination. Almost twenty years later, Rosa and her son Iván begin what will be their life’s project, the restoration of a campground on the Costa Dorada on the other end of the peninsula. Since Iván was born, they have lived in different places, always tentatively, always alone, fleeing from a past that will soon catch up with them. Season's End is a novel about the sometimes venomous strength of blood ties, about family secrets that condemn every generation to repeat the same errors, and about how knowledge transforms us into other people. Ignacio Martínez de Pisón creates memorable characters here in an extraordinary tale of mother and son that extends across nearly a quarter of a century, revealing to us how things unresolved in the past can trap us despite, or even because of, our attempts to ignore them.
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FictionMarch 2020Night and ocean
by Raquel Taranilla
Winner of the 2020 Biblioteca Breve Prize.Bea Silva is shocked when she comes across an article in the newspaper that says someone has stolen the embalmed skull of the legendary silent film director F.W. Murnau. What’s most surprising is that Bea is convinced she knows who the thief is: Quirós, an underemployed filmmaker who one day showed up at her enormous ramshackle house.At almost thirty-two, Beatriz is a somewhat aloof college professor, weary of life and almost pathologically erudite. The arrival of Quirós brings out her lucid, hyperactive side and sets her up for a wildly unhinged fall.
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August 2023The Night of Nevermore
by Lyuba Yez
L, a forty-two-year-old woman with two young children, is wakened in the middle of the night by a crash in the bedroom. It must be my husband having insomnia again, she thinks. But after the sound of footsteps comes a thud: R has fallen to the ground. What seems at first like an isolated scene – a moment of terrible stress triggered by the news that her father-in-law is succumbing to covid – will become hell on earth, a movie no one would want to star in. After long hours of waiting amid fluorescent lights and sterile halls, the medical staff will confirm the worst: R has had a stroke, and his chances of survival are slim. So begins The Night of Nevermore, an unclassifiable book that marks the debut of Chilean journalist Lyuba Yez. Both delicate and painful, this story – breaking with the sentimentalism of set phrases and clichés – recounts the grief, rage, and contradictions of a woman confronting the void. Heir to the analytical acuity of Joan Didion and the art of making life into literature as exemplified by Annie Ernaux and Piedad Bonnet, the author finds refuge in books, film, and music – and discovers a candid way of enduring pain, uncertainty, and the ripple effects of the accident that has endangered her marriage.
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FictionNovember 201830 Ways to Doff your Hat
by Elvira Lindo
30 Ways to Doff Your Hat is a selection of thirty literary pieces in which Elvira Lindo portrays female artists, painters, writers, actresses, and photographers who pursue their work at the margins of the conventional male canon that looms over society, and who have managed to make their mark doing so. Elvira Lindo, one of the most distinguished figures on the contemporary Spanish scene, retraces her path in life and in art, incorporating her own self-portrait into this pantheon of female artists. The author’s voice is the guiding thread that runs through each of these essays: through her experience, through her gaze, Elvira Lindo invites the reader to analyze the era and the accomplishments of these pioneering women whose brilliance, tenacity, and free spirit led them to blaze new trails for future generations. Throughout history, many women have felt obliged to doff their hat before rules imposed by a society that has isolated them from the male-dominated intellectual community. In this narrative mosaic, Elvira Lindo’s astonishing prose reveals her boundless empathy, erudition, and eclectic and inquisitive spirit. Portrayed artists: Astrid Lindgren, Anna Frank, Concepción Josefa Pantaleona, María Guerrero, Elena Fortún, Gloria Fuertes, Adelaida García Morales, Tristana, Louisa May Alcott, Carson McMullers, Patricia Highsmith, Victoria Kent, Alice Munro, Mary Beard, Monica Zgustova, Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie, Margaret Atwood, Edna O’Brien, Joan Didion, Lucia Berlin, Dorothy Parker, Angelika Schrobsdorff, Sally Mann, Joyce Maynard, Marjorie Eliot, Vivian Gornick, Olivia Laing, Nelle Harper Lee, Grace Paley, Elvira Lindo.
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FictionJanuary 2019The Ally
by Iván Repila
The Ally is an intense, extreme and provocative novel with an easy-to-grasp plot: boy meets girl. Girl is a feminist leader. Boy thinks he’s progressive, a feminist, but he soon realizes there is much still to be done. Boy is impatient and is in a hurry for feminism to triumph. Boy has a simple idea: incite the revolution. But in order to do this, he will have to pay a price: to turn his beloved into enemy number one.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentLos frutos de la inteligencia emocional
¡Atrévete… ya! El cielo es el límite
by Mariel Mambretti
This volume will crown your journey, making you a participant in one of the greatest contributions that applied psychology made both to the business world and to all related areas of life: the value of emotional intelligence. From its definition to the means to make the most of it and achieve your ends, you will find the keys to making emotions not a stumbling block, but a weapon for job advancement. Paying attention to the other, giving him a framework of trust and appreciation, stimulating him and accompanying his moods, have been revealed as essential points for the development of all productive activities. Today it is known that whoever smiles and knows how to relate well with their environment is the most capable of climbing positions of great responsibility in the workplace. You will also find suggestions aimed at ensuring that everything obtained in this field results in a particularly full life and suitable for enjoying what has been achieved. These pages are, then, the corollary to make your triumph comprehensive and lasting. Enjoy them!
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FictionRewind
by Juan Tallón
SHORTLISTED FOR IV PREMIO BIENAL DE NOVELA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA 2021 - One Friday in May, on what is shaping up to be a perfect day, there is a strange explosion in a building in Lyon. One of the flats in the now ruined building was occupied by a group of students from various countries who were having a party. Paul, student of Fine Art; Emma, tormented by the tortuous history of her Spanish family; Luca, fascinated both with mathematics and with the cyclist, Marco Pantani; and Ilka, a student who left Berlin with nothing more than a guitar on her back: these are the tenants of a house that was a popular meeting place for the city’s students. In the neighbouring flat, also hit by the explosion, lives a quiet Moroccan family, whose members are apparently well-integrated into French life. The novel explores events from various points of view. Through five narrators – victims and witnesses – we discover what happened that Friday night and the consequences that unfolded over the next three years, until their accounts have covered every hidden aspect of the explosion. Rewind explores whether it is possible to rewind events. And examines our personal ghosts, the role of chance, the people who in the end we do not become, the secrets that must or must not be told, and our capacity to remake ourselves when we are broken. This novel is an espionage operation that investigates the mechanisms of life. How it changes without warning, turns, throws you into the air and destroys you when you are least prepared for it. And, just as mysteriously, how – if you survive everything life has to throw at you – it then allows you to remake yourself and keep moving forward.
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AdventureThe Awakening of the Stars
A novel in the mystical fiction category
by Vanessa Gani / Vanny Gani
The Enchanted Ones - Volume 1: What would you do if you discovered you had a special power? Create the future, enhance your five senses, be a radar of information, read people's souls. Clarice, the protagonist of this story is a fashion designer and, on the verge of turning 30 amid a professional crisis, resorts to seeing a psychic, who tells her she has a special power Hermetic precepts from ancient Egypt can help to activate her powers and prepare her to fight an upcoming enemy Who could want to destroy her? In fashion, acompetitive and vain industry, enemies are very easy to find. (Full translated EN/PT-BR) The Illuminated Ones - Volume 2: Clarice, travels to India for work and suffers from burn out due to professional pressure In an encounter with the fortune teller, it is revealed that the powers are related to astrology and that her crisis is due to her Saturn Return Status Writing completed. (PT-BR) The Reborned Ones - Volume 3: Clarice travels to Thailand to join the Order of the Golden Dawn Where each sign has an apprenticeship and a final test to face. (PT-BR)
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Biography & True StoriesAerial Roots
The grandmother big lies
by Vanessa Gani / Vanny Gani
How would you feel if you found out your grandmother was a big liar? The protagonist believed that the grandmother was a famous French actress, but comes to suspect that she might be a prostitute. In search of the truth, after finding documents from her grandmother with eight different names, she travels with her family to the places where she lived, Romania, Israel and France, and makes surprising discoveries. Read to find out how this Jewish grammy escape to the war and ends up in Brazil. This is not a sad story.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceCiclo 1. Velocidad-percepción: desarrollo de habilidades perceptivas
Sistema Integral de Lectura Rápida. Comprensión y memorización
by María Guadalupe Baeza Gómez
In this cycle Speed - perception: development of perceptual skills, you will significantly improve the speed of your reading thanks to the exercises of each lesson, whose main objective is that you achieve rapid perception of words, as well as identify and eliminate all those noises, distractions and bad habits that affect your reading process.
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May 2017Los mejores días
by Magalí Etchebarne
Certain events unfold, exquisitely and poetically, until we reach an illuminating passage: the precise moment of learning something important. With rare maturity for someone in her thirties, in the manner of Clarice Lispector, Lorrie Moore, or Grace Paley, these stories are a space for inquiry. Undoubtedly, this first book by Magalí Etchebarne is the best possible beginning to a work. It is also the book we all wish we could write someday. I Acevedo
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The colors of the pandemic
Los colores de la pandemia
by Illescas Mariñelarena, María Fernanda Guiochin Sotomayor, Nidia Huerta Papalotzi, Héctor Jair Cevada Barrales, Humberto Santibáñez Torres, Israel Mendoza García, Rafael Ángel Ruíz Ramírez, Víctor Alejandro Gómez Bonilla, Víctor Hugo Castillero Lomelí, Andrea Valle Guillermo, Carolina Nepomuceno Torres, Estefanía Solís Zepeda, María Luisa Salvador Hernández, Mariel de Jesús Ramírez Cuervo, Thelma Itzel
The work is the result of a call addressed to the community of the School of Plastic and Audiovisual Arts of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, in the year 2021, in which students and teachers were invited to share their experience since the beginning of the confinement within the framework of the sanitary contingency; this through a plastic work, a text, or both, so that different expressions about how life has been modified since the existence of the coronavirus were combined.
