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"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

El Otro Lihn explores the cultural endeavors of Enrique Lihn through a number of key viewpoints offered by professors, writers, artists, and family members. The voices of seventeen people explore the poet's critical posture toward Chilean and Latin American culture and describe in detail the many challenges Lihn faced when undertaking the creation of a heterogeneous body of work -poetry books, plays, novels, essays, videos, "happenings" and the comic book Roma, la loba. The interviews set Lihn's life and work against important Latin American historical events such as the repressive cultural...

Eligiendo muerte: La improbable historia del death metal y grindcore, resena los 25 anos de historia de esta forma de arte subterraneo a traves de los ojos y de los resonantes oidos de los artistas, productores y duenos de sellos que propulsaron estos brutales movimientos musicales: Mike Amott (Carcass), Nicke Andersson (Entombed), Trey Azagthoth (Morbid Angel), Chris Barnes (Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under), Jeff Becerra (Possessed), Jo Bench (Bolt Thrower), Glen Benton (Deicide), Justin Broadrick (Godflesh), Oscar Garcia (Terrorizer), King Fowley (Deceased), Fenriz (Darkthrone), Shane...

El matemático Manuel Sadosky (1914-2005) tiene ganado un merecido reconocimiento en la historia de la ciencia como “Padre de la computación en Argentina”. Su nombre suele aparecer asociado a Clementina, la descomunal computadora valvular que, junto a un pequeño grupo de científicos, fueron, en 1961, los primeros habitantes de la Ciudad Universitaria, entonces sólo un páramo bordeado por el río, en el extremo norte de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Sin embargo, Manuel Sadosky desborda los límites de la computación. En sus textos, en sus acciones públicas, indisolublemente entramadas...