La Jinetera Sagrada

Author : Juan Prieto
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105546464

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La jinetera sagrada by Juan Prieto Pdf

En formato US-trade,"La Jinetera Sagrada" es una satira con los acontecimientos de finales del Siglo XX, un astuto analisis de la situacion cubana en el marco internacional: en esta novela, Bienvenido de la Luz Profunda le pide a Augusto publicar las conversaciones que sostienen para que no se pierdan sus visiones, le dice: "Escribe la congoja en Adagio Alegre para que se pueda leer repetidas veces, escribelo como una sinfonia para orquesta con orfeon, para que todos los cantores pongan en compas sus pensamientos, para que todos juntos con sus distintos ensoberbecimientos canten la cancion, con fuerza suficiente para poner la tierra efervescente, para que los arboles que crecieron jorobados porque la luz les alumbro siempre por el mismo costado, comiencen a enderezarse." El titulo "La Jinetera Sagrada" se basa en un sarcasmo historico, un paralelo satirico a la "Sagrada Familia" de Carlos Marx y Federico Engels, para reportar los resultados y las consecuencias del contemporaneo embeleco comunista.

Author : Ann Marie Stock,Guy Baron,Antonio Álvarez Pitaluga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786722539

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The Cinema of Cuba by Ann Marie Stock,Guy Baron,Antonio Álvarez Pitaluga Pdf

Contemporary Cuba is opening up to the rest of the world. Its colonial past and the Communist revolution have left a lasting imprint on society, yet there is a tangible sense of rapid change which is reflected in the island's national cinema. New screen technologies and digital distribution media have supported the efficacy and global reach of Cuban filmmakers whose work, somewhat in lieu of adequate distribution and traditional screening facilities in Cuba itself, is often disseminated via 'flash' (USB memory sticks).Channelling an energetic DIY attitude through grassroots movements and ad-hoc resourcefulness, the new filmmakers of Cuba have inspired the editors of this book to embrace their contagious enthusiasm through essays on authentic Cuban cinema. Whilst the book provides a comprehensive overview of the history behind current practices, it also moves beyond this to examine key case studies as well as 'snapshots' of individuals working within the industry today. Chapters celebrate the shared creativity as well as diversity of Cuban cinema, including both productions of the Cuban Film Institute's (ICAIC) as well as those from the industry margins. The films discussed demonstrate a driving cinematic force through social criticism, the emphasis of debate and historical change through film, reassessments of gender relations, the use of new technologies and much more.

Author : Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Children and adults
ISBN : 1676657282

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Kafka and the Traveling Doll by Jordi Sierra i Fabra Pdf

One year before his death Frank Kafka had an extraordinary experience. Having a walk through Steglitz Park, in Berlin, he found a little girl crying heartbroken. She had lost her doll. To calm her down Frank introduced himself as the Dolls's Postman, and told the little girl that the doll was away on a trip but had sent a letter for her that will be delivered by himself the following day. For three weeks Frank focused exclusively on the doll's letters that he handed on every day to the girl. Nobody has ever known who that little girl was and what happened with the letters.

Author : Barbara Mertz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062087164

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Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz Pdf

A fascinating, erudite, and witty glimpse of the human side of ancient Egypt—this acclaimed classic work is now revised and updated for a new generation Displaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for fascinating detail, keen insight, and trenchant wit that have made the novels she writes (as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) perennial New York Times bestsellers, internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz brings a long-buried civilization to vivid life. In Red Land, Black Land, she transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights, aromas, and sounds of day-to-day living in the legendary desert realm that was ancient Egypt. Who were these people whose civilization has inspired myriad films, books, artwork, myths, and dreams, and who built astonishing monuments that still stagger the imagination five thousand years later? What did average Egyptians eat, drink, wear, gossip about, and aspire to? What were their amusements, their beliefs, their attitudes concerning religion, childrearing, nudity, premarital sex? Mertz ushers us into their homes, workplaces, temples, and palaces to give us an intimate view of the everyday worlds of the royal and commoner alike. We observe priests and painters, scribes and pyramid builders, slaves, housewives, and queens—and receive fascinating tips on how to perform tasks essential to ancient Egyptian living, from mummification to making papyrus. An eye-opening and endlessly entertaining companion volume to Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs, Mertz's extraordinary history of ancient Egypt, Red Land, Black Land offers readers a brilliant display of rich description and fascinating edification. It brings us closer than ever before to the people of a great lost culture that was so different from—yet so surprisingly similar to—our own.

Author : Cuauhtémoc Medina
Publisher : UNAM
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9703218830

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La imagen política by Cuauhtémoc Medina Pdf

The conference theme was dedicated to the study of the function of art in politics. The present edition compiles the 30 research works divided in 3 sub-topics: Poderes, Cuerpos y Espacios (Powers, Bodies and Spaces); Batallas por el Imaginario (Battles for the Imaginary) and Resistencia y Representación (Resistance and Representation).

Author : Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0850483905

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La Memoria de Los Seres Perdidos by Jordi Sierra i Fabra Pdf

Author : Track 16 Gallery and Mainspace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015047560803

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While Cuba Waits by Track 16 Gallery and Mainspace Pdf

Framed by the "Periodo Especial"-the period of economic and political upheaval that has followed the failure of perestroika-the work of artists living in Cuba in the nineties emerges from the unique ambiguity, complexity, energy, and desperation that characterize daily life in Cuba. While Cuba Waits explores the ethics, cynicism, and ideologies of these young artists in the context of their political, social, and economic environments. Includes painting, sculpture, and installation work by Pedro Álvarez, Saidel Brito, Carmen Cabrera, Sandra Ceballos, Henry Erik Hernández, Luis Gómez, Yalili Mora, René Peña, Douglas Perez, Ezequiel Suárez, and José Vincench. Edited by Kevin Power and Pilar Perez, with essays by Lupe Álvarez, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, and Kevin Power.

Author : Mayra Santos-Febres
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061900921

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Our Lady of the Night by Mayra Santos-Febres Pdf

From internationally-acclaimed novelist Mayra Santos-Febres comes a carnal, epic novel about the life of Isabel “La Negra” Luberza--a legendary Puerto Rican madam who, by the end of World War II, became the most powerful woman on the island. Born into poverty and then abandoned by her mother, Isabel "La Negra" Luberza blossoms into a supremely sensual young woman. Obsessed with attaining aristocratic status—armed with incredible physical presence, indomitable ambition, and keen intelligence—she meets Fernando Fornarís, the man who will forever change her life. With a parcel of land given to her by her rich, white married lover, Isabel transforms herself into a hard-edged and merciless businesswoman—abandoning her own newborn son to become Puerto Rico's most feared and respected madam, a collector of society's secrets, a queen of the notorious brothel that emerges as the island's true political and economic heart. Set against the rich backdrop of the Caribbean and the United States during the tumultuous years of World War II, Mayra Santos-Febres's Our Lady of the Night is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.

Author : Luis Camnitzer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0292705174

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New Art of Cuba by Luis Camnitzer Pdf

Starting with the groundbreaking 1981 exhibit called "Volumen I," New Art of Cuba provided the first comprehensive look at the works of the first generation of Cuban artists completely shaped by the 1959 revolution. This revised edition includes a new epilogue that discusses developments in Cuban art since the book's publication in 1994, including the exodus of artists in the early 1990s, the effects of the new dollar economy on the status of artists, and the shift away from socialist themes to more personal concerns in the artists' works. Twenty-four new color plates augment the more than 200 b&w illustrations of the original volume.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Havana (Cuba)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124289823

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Havana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas Reeves
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500774595

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Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet by Nicholas Reeves Pdf

Nicholas Reeves’s radical interpretation of a revolutionary king—now available in paperback. One of the most compelling and controversial figures in ancient Egyptian history, Akhenaten has captured the imagination like no other Egyptian pharaoh. Much has been written about this strange, persecuted figure, whose depiction in effigies is totally at odds with the traditional depiction of the Egyptian ruler-hero. Akhenaten sought to impose upon Egypt and its people the worship of a single god—the sun god—and in so doing changed the country in every way. In Akhenaten, Nicholas Reeves presents an entirely new perspective on the turbulent events of Akhenaten’s seventeen-year reign. Reeves argues that, far from being the idealistic founder of a new faith, the Egyptian ruler cynically used religion for political gain in a calculated attempt to reassert the authority of the king and concentrate all power in his hands. Backed by abundant archaeological and documentary evidence, Reeves’s narrative also provides many new insights into questions that have baffled scholars for generations—the puzzle of the body in Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings; the fate of Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s beautiful wife; the identity of his mysterious successor, Smenkhkare; and the theory that Tutankhamun, Akhenaten’s son and heir to the throne, was murdered.

Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0306808277

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Cuba Or The Pursuit Of Freedom by Hugh Thomas Pdf

This first-time paperback edition, now updated, describes and analyzes Cuba's history from the English capture of Havana in 1762 through Spanish colonialism, American imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, and the Missile Crisis to Fidel Castro's defiant but precarious present state.

Author : Abilio Estevez
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628722369

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Distant Palaces by Abilio Estevez Pdf

A novel of Havana. With passion and eloquence, master craftsman Abilio Estevez brings to life the mysterious, broken down city of Havana on the eve of the new millennium. Victorio, a lonely, middle-aged gay man, awakes to the news that the ancient palace where he rents a tiny apartment is scheduled to be demolished, leaving him homeless. Wandering the streets in search of a new place to call his own, he meets two unusual people who are destined to change his life: Salma, a young prostitute, and Don Fuco, an eccentric old clown who brings both of them to live in his own refuge, an abandoned theater. In a city riddled with conflict and no longer tolerant of outcasts, the pair find solace in one another and in the dilapidated theater that shelters them, and a renewed joy in their collective abilities to entertain people with their clowning. But when the harsh realities of life intrude on their self-contained utopia, Victorio and Salma are forced back out into the streets, where they struggle to keep beauty and laughter alive. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Magali García Ramis
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034395957

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Happy Days, Uncle Sergio by Magali García Ramis Pdf

The effect on a Puerto Rican family, which is without a man in the house, of a visit by an uncle from New York. For the first time the conversation rises above the mundane. The novel is narrated by a girl who describes the joy of having her horizons widened.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0879034351

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Hapi, Hispanic American Periodicals Index 2001 by Anonim Pdf