Juan Porcar Montoliu. Obra Completa.

This work features the best bibliography ever assembled on commonplace books and literature in English. The book focuses on writing, writers and the joys as well as travails of travel.

This study uses a novel by Guatemalan writer Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel prize, to analyze the construction of Guatemalan identity at the end of the 1940s and to consider the factors involved in representing a Third World country.

Edgar Morin vaticina que nuestra especie se aproxima a una mutacion sin precedentes de sus herramientas de conocimiento. Para abordar esa transformacion radical propone un nuevo paradigma, el de la complejidad. Cree que, en todas partes y en todas las tendencias del pensamiento posmoderno, el error, la ignorancia y la ceguera progresan al mismo tiempo que nuestras certidumbres.

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...