Sol y Moscas

Tolkien: hombre y mito ahonda en el trasfondo filosófico y el contexto cultural que moldearon la génesis de la Tierra Media, así como en el uso que Tolkien hace del mito: para él, debe suponer un salto no fuera de la realidad, sino al corazón de la misma. Asimismo, Pearce describe la relación que el magistral escritor mantuvo con sus colegas literarios más próximos y desvela la incómoda relación entre Tolkien y C. S. Lewis, el autor de los libros de Narnia.

«Reaccionarios, dicen. Me parece que ha llegado el momento de precisar la situación en que me encuentro y volver a trazar mi itinerario sin evasivas ni complacencias. Por lo que a mí respecta no se trata en modo alguno de rebajar el conocimiento a la confesión ni de defender una verdad puramente subjetiva. No he optado, en el momento de rendir cuentas, por atrincherarme en la fortaleza inexpugnable de la autobiografía. Pongo las cartas sobre la mesa, digo desde dónde hablo, pero no digo sin embargo: 'Cada uno tiene su propia visión de las cosas'. La verdad que yo sigo buscando todavía ...

This is a true story. A young radiologist, fresh out of training, starts working in south Florida but has difficulty establishing himself in a practice. Finally, working alone in west Broward county, he sees the vast empty spaces, west of what is currently considered west. Knowing the future must lie west, the doctor becomes an entrepreneur and starts to push medicine to where now only cows walk. Does he succeed? Read how what starts as cow pastures becomes transformed into a thriving community.

"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...