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El secreto del Gipsy es una novela basada en la vida de una estudiante de media superior, con un excelente nivel académico y objetivos claros de lo que quiere llegar a ser en la vida. Pero en el camino para lograr sus propósitos llega a conocer un sentimiento desconocido llamado amor a través de un profesor de su especialidad, hecho del cual se desprende una aventura llena de romance, pecados y una desagradable ruptura que la deja con cicatrices que le marcan la vida para siempre, y hacen que se pierda a sí misma y se convierta en un ser desconocido capaz de tomar equivocadas decisiones y ...

In this intermediate-level reader; twelve thematically oriented units introduce students to the literary and artistic contributions of the Hispanic world. The literary selections include most major genres and are complemented by full color illustrations of significant artistic movements. Literatura y arte can be readily used on its own or in conjunction with one or both of the other coordinated Intermediate Spanish volumes.

Luis Cruz Azaceta: No Exit is the first substantial overview of the work of the Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (born 1942). Azaceta's childhood memories in Cuba (where he remained until he was 18 years old) mix with his first professional experiences in New York City (where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and where he lived for three decades) and those of his period of professional maturity in New Orleans. Azaceta's brightly polychromatic painting explores "an aesthetics of constant escapes," as Iván de la Nuez put it. His imaginary, revealed in works that range between...

Pedro Almodovar has been called 'the Spanish Andy Warhol' for his influence on Spanish popular culture. Almodovar comes from an austere background in rural Spain. It was the 1950s, the age of the Cold War, of mambo, of Balenciaga, of the Korean War, of the Hungarian Revolution, of the death of Stalin. But none of these events had any effect on his village. 'I felt like an astronaut at the court of King Arthur.' In response, Almodovar proceeded to carve for himself a unique niche in contemporary cinema with films bursting with vibrant energy and vivid, primary colours - each frame saturated...