El asesino de la pantalla grande

"There's something very weird and wonderful going on down at the park, but be careful where you peak... there are some crazy, amazing, and fantastic creatures out and about! I saw a Shark is an action-packed play tale full of adventure and fun, with lots of fantastic gatefolds hiding some surprising secrets."

This monograph studies the development of Venezuelan theater in the 70s, characterized by psychological, physical as well as verbal violence and cruelty. Throughout the decade, violence pervaded not only drama, but every sphere of social, political and cultural life in Venezuela. While these dramaturgies of violence disrupted the aesthetic field in many ways, they also interpreted the development of Venezuelan society.

Baudelaire, De Quincey, Seferis, Gracián, Platón, Cervantes, Mallarmé, Proust, Cernuda, Eliot, Valéry, Rilke, Kurt Weill, Vallejo... son algunas de las presencias insistentes que, a vueltas con el tiempo, en cuerpo y alma, van poblando este libro, una especie de fenomenología literaria y reflexión estética que va abriendo una veta de la cultura europea del siglo xx desde sus más fructíferas raíces.

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...