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Behind the outer face of nature lie deep mysteries, plots and unknown relationships, and time has different rhythms and different orders, with their own enigmas and truths. Faced with the straitjacket of rationalism, it is necessary to accept that the events that came together in the death of Alec are steeped in mystery.
In 1588, Michel de Montaigne meets a young admirer of his work, Marie de Gournay. At the age of fifty-five and 'well married', Montaigne begins a mysterious relationship with the idolised Marie, whom he makes his 'adopted daughter'.
Tomás Casademunt (Barcelona, 1967) is an exceptional artist who was forged by two decades as a photojournalist. In constant quest, he has produced some remarkable series of photographs, among which La muerte en el altar occupies a privileged place.
José Guadalupe Posada’s cavorting skeletons are for many people among the most emblematic images of Mexican art, representing a supposed mockery of and indifference to death that runs deep in Mexican culture.
A Moscow police officer is transferred to Ukraine as punishment by the Supreme Soviet, and ends up in Pripyat, the closest place to the Chernobyl nuclear centre. Just two days after his arrival he witnesses what will be the greatest nuclear tragedy of the Soviet Union, hushed up by the authorities in an attempt to protect the politicians responsible for the disaster.
Shortly before he dies in an accident, Guillermo confesses to his friend Eusebio that he is involved in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with a mysterious woman. Eusebio decides to look for this woman to tell her Guillermo has died. And when he finds her, he is bewitched by her. He doesn't dare tell her anything of the secrets he knows in fear of scaring her off.
If poetry shouldn't worry about being beautiful or pleasant or seeking for truth; if poetry has to be painful, accompany our sleepless nights; if it is born in blotted notebooks while one walks up and down the city; if it must take us to the very edge of the precipice, "paralysed by the strange, vague doubt of continued existance", in short to possess "the raging force of lif
The main character of this story, the author's alter ego,is a nineteen-year-old scholar who is employed on a local newspaper. He's a very practical kid who enjoys his work until the day he sleeps with the newspaper's sexologist, Daniela Costa, an expert in her field, a tall, slim, attractive and elegant woman, but cold as ice.
Lucas was convinced that he was born to fly. He watched planes, tried to make himself all kinds of wings, and even asked to be able to fly as a Christmas present! But nothing worked… One day, his mother explained that there were other ways to make his dream come true, and put a book in his hands. That same day, without realising it, Lucas began to fly…
One of the fundamental questions in this study is the one which is – at least for those who tend to perceive the world with their ears before their eyes – the most complex within the field of the humanities: the relationship between language and music, that wide and well-mined area involves the text, melody, prosody, articulation, verbal and musical rhythm, the meaning of words and