Encuentros en la abadía

En las últimas décadas del siglo XX la cuenca media del río Magdalena era un territorio azotado por distintas violencias protagonizadas por guerrilleros, paramilitares, narcotraficantes y fuerza pública. Bajo este espacio incandescente, como durmientes casi imperceptibles, estaban las ruinas de unas estructuras culturales venidas a menos, unas faenas tradicionales apocadas o disminuidas y unas idiosincrasias de provincia derruidas que estaban reducidas apenas a estereotipos que parecieran vivir, en muchos casos, con creencias de otros tiempos. En estas circunstancias no era extraño...

This study offers a profound study of Arrufat's play, using most recent critical trends concerning the performance aspect of the drama. It examines the genre of the drama and its relationship to the phenomenon of the Cuban Revolution, Arrufat as a Cuban playwright of the 60s and his re-writing of the Greek theme of the fratricidal fight in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Also contains a recent interview with Arrufat in which he describes the social circumstances surrounding the play and some of his classical re-writing techniques.

Volumen segundo de la Historia de la estética de W. Tatarkiewicz. Las corrientes culturales y artísticas , orientales y occidentales, hasta la época de Dante. Incluye en versión bilingüe una extensa antología de los textos originales en que la obra se basa.

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...