Pintor de Soledades (Spanish Edition)

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Author : Arturo Perez-Reverte
Genre : Fiction

Summary : A compelling tale of art, love and war... A man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle. He is a former war photographer, and the painting is his attempt to capture the photo he was never able to take; to encapsulate, in an instant, the meaning of war. But one day a stranger knocks on his door and announces that he has come to kill him. The man is a shadow from his past, one of the myriad faces of war, and now the consequences of his actions are brought home to him. As the novel progresses, the story of both the soldier and the artist emerge, entwined with a doomed love affair, and the progress of a painting that is infused with the history of art. Intense and turbulent this is a book about art, war, love and the human capacity for both violence and empathy. It asks very profound questions about human nature and the role of the artist, but it is also has the intensity of a psychological thriller as the painter trades stories with the man who has come to kill him - like the Knight playing chess with Death in the Seventh Seal....

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Author : Donna Pierce
Genre : Art

Summary : "The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.

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Author : Christa J. Olson
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines

Summary : In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador’s long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador’s nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.

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Author : George Roberto Pace
Genre : Foreign Language Study

Summary : Provides a general review of the test, basic grammatical terms, vocabulary, and practice tests.

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Author : Efraín Aranzazu Morissi
Genre : Family & Relationships

Summary : Esta atractiva historia relata los hechos ocurridos a Diana de Dios, mujer hermosa que como ninguna otra, experimentó en dos ocasiones estado de catalepsia según dictamen de los doctores que la asistieron. La primera vez al cruzar el desierto, la encontró una patrulla y la llevó al hospital, sin signos vitales, pero con el paso de los días fue revivida y luego dada de alta. La segunda ocasión, fue cuando dándose un baño en las corrientes aguas de un río, se ahogó y durante su agónico estado estuvo en lugares extraños, pero donde fue totalmente feliz, para volver en una nave que la había recogido, en un lugar desconocido; la revivieron y la trajeron de vuelta al mismo lugar donde la había encontrado la nave ocupada por extraterrestres; para luego caminar hasta encontrar la manera de volver a la Ciudad donde mucho antes había vivido, donde la esperaba Melba Flores, quien había sido su patrona en el almacén de prendas femeninas, que Diana de Dios, le ayudaba a administrar. ¡Melba Flores la acogió de nuevo, para que fuera su amiga y compañera, hasta que se casó con un médico multimillonario, mientras Melba Flores al cabo del tiempo, encontró en un pintor, el acompañante que siempre había necesitado!

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Author : Kathleen Jeffs
Genre : Literary Criticism

Summary : In this volume, Kathleen Jeffs draws on first-hand experience of the Royal Shakespeare Company's rehearsal room for the 2004-05 Spanish Golden Age season to put forth a collaborative model for translating, rehearsing, and performing Spanish Golden Age drama. Building on the RSC season, the volume offers methodologies for translation and communication that can feed the creative processes of actors and directors, while maintaining an ethos of fidelity with regards to the original texts. It argues that collaboration between academics and theatre practitioners was instrumental in the success of the season and that the work carried out has repercussions for critical debate of Comedia. The volume posits a model for future productions of the Comedia in English, one that recognizes the need for the languages of the scholar and the theatre artist to be made mutually intelligible by the use of collaborative strategies, mediated by a consultant or dramaturg proficient in both tongues. This model applies more generally to theatrical collaborations involving a translator, writer and director, and will be useful for translation and performance processes in any language.

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Author : Gonzalo Lopez Pardo
Genre : Fiction

Summary : Un suspense original y de alto calibre, donde se mezcla magia ancestral con narcotráfico y en el cual el puerto principal de Chile es el testigo ceniciento de vidas perdidas antes de sucumbir otra vez a las llamas. Quizás esta vez para siempre. Piromancia, la nueva novela de Gonzalo López Pardo. Valparaíso se quema todos los años. Si bien se ha especulado mucho acerca de la intencionalidad de aquellos desastres, sin señalar a nadie en concreto, aunque se nombran pirómanos y narcotraficantes; hasta ahora sus presencias son solo fantasmales. En Piromancia, López Pardo se adentra en los recovecos de aquella historia y a pesar del miedo apunta a los culpables, lo creas o no. Las letras de López Pardo se presentan como un aire nuevo dentro de la literatura de género, con un especial interés por desentrañar historias olvidadas y la magia del fin del mundo. Entre sus referentes destacan Borges, Rulfo y Coloane. Además de declarar admiración por el genio del animé Hayao Miyazaki.