Readers that venture into the portrait gallery that is this work, will face a series of fascinating, exceptional, and compelling yet real-life characters. Vicent traverses from the glamour of Andy Warhol to the misery of Czanne and Billie Holliday. Self destructive artists such as Modigliani and Montgomery Clift serve as a contrast for Billy Wilder and Frank Sinatra, who controlled their destiny and found happiness. The integrity and commitment of Yves Montand and Zenobia Camprubi clash with the...
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Don Quixote
This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point of re-accentuation, i.e. having in mind one of the key Bakh...
La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós) / The Quiet Gaze (of Pérez Galdós)
by Mario Vargas Llosa
«¿Fue un gran escritor? Lo fue. En el siglo XIX y comienzos del XX, no hay ninguno de sus compatriotas que tenga semejante dedicación, inventiva, empeño y la soltura literaria de Pérez Galdós». Pérez Galdós es un autor esencial en la literatura española contemporánea. En este ensayo, a partir del análisis de sus novelas, de sus obras teatrales y de los Episodios nacionales, Mario Vargas Llosa crea un perfil completo, personal y sugerente del escritor español. Nadie como el Nobel peruano es ca...
Camoes and the First Edition of the Lusiads, 1572 (Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies)
by Diogo Do Couto
O Ilustre e Ilustrado Padre Joaquim Esteves (Ilustres E Ilustrados Parocos Da Vila, #1)
by Dionisio Sousa
Conversational Spanish Dialogues for Beginners and Intermediate Students
by World Language Institute Spain
Here are the adventures of that bumbling, infinitely compassionate knight, Don Quijote, and his shrewdly simple squire, Sancho Panza. Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is one of the world's great literary works. The award-winning translator Burton Raffel presents an accurate, consistent, and fluid translation modeled closely on the original Spanish. More than any of its predecessors, this masterful translation comes close to re-creating the inimitable style of Cervantes' prose.
The Man Who Was Don Quixote; the Story of Miguel Cervantes
by Rafaello 1900- Busoni
