“El luchador” dirigido por Darren Aronofsky [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewZ4_Q2teeA] “Randy «The Ram» Robinson (Mickey Rourke) es un luchador profesional de wrestling, ya retirado que, tras haber sido una estrella en la década de los ochenta, trata de continuar su carrera en el circuito independiente, combatiendo en cuadriláteros de tercera categoría. Cuando se da cuenta de que los
“The Count-duke of Olivares; the Statesman in an Age of Decline” by J. H. Elliott “A masterful biography of Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count Duke of Olivares—righthand advisor to Spain’s Philip IV, archrival of Cardinal Richelieu, and a central figure in seventeenth-century Europe. Written by the eminent historian J. H. Elliott and based on many
“Where the sidewalk ends: the poems and drawings” by Shel Silverstein “Come in … for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins. You’ll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who
“Thus spoke Zarathustra: a book for everyone and no one” by Friedrich Nietzsche “Philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the «eternal recurrence of the same», the parable on the «death of God», and the «prophecy» of the
“The wonderful wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum with pictures by W.W. Denslow “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900,[1] and has since been reprinted countless
“Sicko” dirigida por Michael Moore [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BJyyyRYbSk] “Michael Moore vuelve a la carga con un documental que denuncia el sistema sanitario norteamericano; un sistema que, al no existir la sanidad universal, excluye a 50 millones de norteamericanos (que, o bien no tienen seguro de salud privado, o no pueden pagárselo) y que se basa en compañías
“Diana o La cazadora solitaria” por Carlos Fuentes “¿Qué pasiones o ideales mueven al ser humano y lo arrastran hasta su propia muerte? Ésta parece ser la pregunta que se hace Carlos Fuentes al reflexionar acerca de la vida y la muerte de la actriz Diana Soren: tan solitaria como bella, tan fuerte como vulnerable.
“Goya y las mujeres” por Natacha Seseña “Tras una introducción que acerca a la biografía de Goya, Natacha Seseña indaga en el entorno afectivo del pintor a través de las cartas a su amigo Martín Zapater y analiza la situación de la mujer en los siglos XVIII y XIX, con sus luces y sus sombras.
“Holes” by Louis Sachar “Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, «You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake.» Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before. And so, Stanley Yelnats seems set to serve an easy sentence, which is only fair because
“Brazil” by John Updike “Allusions to Tristan and Isolde dot Updike’s fiction, poetry, and even nonfiction, so it is not surprising to find him reimagining their story as a novel. Surprisingly, he places them in the Brazil of the last three decades. His Tristan is a black beach boy, his Isolde the affluent daughter of