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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Este libro, que cierra la trilogía de Primo Levi sobre los campos de exterminio, es una prueba viva de que sólo con la palabra, sólo si el horror se vertebra, se está en condiciones de crear y fortalecer la conciencia crítica que exigen los tiempos. Los hundidos y los salvados supone la última reflexión del autor sobre su experiencia, una summa moral en la que indaga en las cuestiones más esenciales: la libertad, la vergüenza, la responsabilidad, la complicidad, el compromiso, el olvido... Y también un alegato a favor de la piedad como categoría básica de la ética humana. Hay...

"I hope that this anthology of Spanish writers in the US will serve as a forerunner to future academic studies on a literary body of work that, although heterogeneous and varying, stands as a key and indivisible part of contemporary Spanish literature.” -Gerardo Piña-Rosales. The anthology contains prose and poetry from, among others, the author, José Luis Ponce de León, Ana María Facundo, Manuel Durán, Carlos Perellón, and Jesús Torrecilla.

Quince escritores (narradores, poetas, ensayistas) menores de cuarenta años hurgan entre las huellas que han marcado su memoria y ejercen su oficio: escribir, construir, acosar, narrar, recrear, acaso inventar para ofrecernos este mosaico que se llama Trazos en el espejo. Rápidos esbozos narrativos de momentos clave, pasiones, dramas, pobrezas, aventuras librescas, escenas de lo cotidiano y lo singular.