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The Buddha and the Bard
by Lauren ShufranWhat does Shakespeare have to teach us about mindfulness? What Eastern spiritual views about death, love, and presence are reflected in the writings of The Bard? The Buddha and the Bard reveals the surprising connections between the 2,500-year-old spiritual leader and the most compelling writer of all time. &“Shufran&’s compelling juxtapositions will encourage the reader to ask the deepest questions of themselves while delighting in the play of resonances across a cultural and historical divide.&” – YOGA Magazine Shakespeare understood and represented the human condition better than any writer of his time. As for the Buddha, he saw how to liberate us from that condition. Author Lauren Shufran explores the fascinating interplay of Western drama and Eastern philosophy by pairing quotes from Shakespeare with the tenets of an Eastern spiritual practice, sparking a compelling dialogue between the two. There&’s a remarkable interchange of echoes between Shakespeare&’s conception of &“the inward man&” and Buddhist approaches to recognizing, honoring, and working with our humanness as we play out our roles on the &“stage&” of our lives. The Buddha and the Bard synthesizes literature and scripture, embodied drama and transcendent practice, to shape a multifaceted lyric that we can apply as mindful practice in our own lives. Shufran&’s compelling juxtapositions will encourage the reader to ask the deepest questions of themselves while delighting in the play of resonances across a cultural and historical divide.
Nero: Alliance Series Book One
by S. J. TillyThe first time I took a man's life, I knew there'd be no going back, no normal existence in the cards for me. Instead of walking away, I climbed a mountain of bodies and created my own destiny by forming The Alliance. And I was fine with that, content enough to carry on. Until I stepped through those open doors, and into her life. I should've walked away. Should've gone right back out the door I came through. But I didn't. And now her life is in danger. That's the thing about being a bad man. I'll happily paint the streets red to protect what's mine. And Payton is mine. Whether she knows it or not.
A Devastação
by Helena MagalhãesO poder das amizades femininas junta-se a uma crítica ao patriarcado. No final do verão de 1990, Mar, com apenas seis anos, é enviada para o Romeirão, um internato Católico no Alentejo onde fica até aos 15 anos. Cresce no meio de regras e privações, castigos e fome, mas rodeada e protegida pela irmandade das outras raparigas, principalmente Anita e Amália, mas também de Eduardo, um dos rapazes da vila, com quem vai criar uma relação inesperada e viver as primeiras descobertas de amor. Anos depois, ainda a lidar com o trauma do passado, com as drogas, a depressão e a solidão, é ao lado de Isabel, Alice e Luísa que aprende a viver uma nova vida sóbria e em paz. Quando reencontra Eduardo, nenhum consegue resistir à ligação magnética, mas com ele voltam feridas antigas que a assombram desde a noite em fugiu do Romeirão. A pequena Mar que se transformou na Marisa das Argolas, a "vilã” de Raparigascomo nós, regressa nesta ousada crítica ao patriarcado português. Escrita com sagacidade e emoção, A devastação explora o poder das amizades femininas e captura as complexidades humanas e familiares, a eletricidade do primeiro amor e os segredos que nos enjaulam em locais amaldiçoados dentro de nós.
Otelo: A tragédia de Otelo, o mouro de Veneza
by William ShakespeareUma tragédia sobre poder, racismo, amor e traição, tão relevante hoje como em 1603, ano em que foi escrita pelo maior dramaturgo de sempre. Tradução e introdução de Daniel Jonas «Calar-me? Hei de falar tão livre como o vento. E venham todos, céu, diabos, homens,Que gritem contra mim, hei de falar.» Otelo, destacado general mouro ao serviço do Estado de Veneza, apaixona-se pela bela e jovem Desdémona, oriunda de uma abastada família veneziana. Iago, alferes de Otelo, dominado pela raiva de ter sido preterido, em favor de Cássio, numa promoção a capitão, denuncia a união entre os dois amantes, realizada em segredo, a Brabâncio, pai de Desdémona, provocando a sua ira. Não logrando o seu intento de destruir Otelo, Iago convence-o de que Desdémona o trai com Cássio, assim desencadeando uma série de ações que precipitarão o mais funesto dos desfechos. Otelo é uma das mais importantes e belas tragédias de Shakespeare, cuja notável densidade psicológica expõe a queda inevitável de um homem consumido pela paixão e pelo ciúme. Uma tragédia sobre poder, racismo, amor e traição, tão relevante hoje como em 1603, ano em que foi escrita pelo maior dramaturgo de sempre.
Raparigas como nós
by Helena MagalhãesIsabel e Alice são inseparáveis. Afonso e Ventura já não sabem o que os une. Simão e Zeca querem mudar quem são. E Marisa talvez seja apenas a vilã. Uma reflexão sobre a juventude, pressão dos pares, laços de amizade entre raparigas, festas, drogas, depressão, morte e autodescoberta. Uma reflexão que é também o retrato de uma geração e a ânsia de pertencer. Raparigas como nós é uma viagem entre Lisboa, Cascais e Madrid, contada pela voz de Isabel e que, numa narrativa veloz, nos revela o impacto que podemos ter na vida uns dos outros. Um romance sobre a eletricidade do primeiro amor e os intensos emaranhados das relações de amizade e das memórias de infância.
Cuánto vale una heladera y otros textos de teatro
by Claudia PiñeiroSeis piezas breves de teatro, tres comedias y tres dramas, escritas por una de las autoras más leídas en Argentina y en el mundo: Claudia Piñeiro. Este libro reúne las seis obras de teatro escritas por Claudia Piñeiro, tres comedias y tres dramas. Seis historias de gente común en situaciones que pueden mover a la risa o al espanto. Una mujer reclama una heladera nueva porque la suya se quemó por una bajada de tensión, pero su apellido se escribe con la letra ñ y las computadoras de la empresa no la reconocen como la propietaria; los hijos de una anciana con Parkinson se pelean para ver quién va a cuidarla; un hombre es asesinado unos días antes de casarse y en su velorio se descubren unas cuantas verdades; una madre y su hija dialogan sobre el genocidio armenio en paralelo al genocidio de la última dictadura en la Argentina; un joven vuelve al pueblo que abandonó años atrás para reencontrarse con su historia; el robo a una escribanía deja a la escribana y a su empleado atados uno junto al otro, en un diálogo incómodo. Con una enorme capacidad para la evocación de escenas cotidianas, con diálogos precisos, con el oído siempre atento a las inflexiones de la oralidad, la autora desliza sutiles sugerencias para la puesta en escena: una mirada, una luz, una canción nos llevan directo al corazón de las historias. Un libro delicioso que confirma que Claudia Piñeiro brilla en todos los géneros literarios. La crítica ha dicho... «Catedrales, la última novela de Claudia Piñeiro, nos interpela como sociedad. Nos obliga a detenernos y reflexionar. El texto exige no ser indiferentes.»Andrés Klipphan, Infobae «Si bien Piñeiro es reconocida por novelas dentro del género (Las viudas de los jueves; Betibú), es en el cruce entre intimidad y enigma donde nacen sus libros.»Verónica Boix, La Nación, sobre Catedrales «...su mayor virtud como narradora de cuentos podría ser la capacidad de resolver lo definitivo en un instante.»Silvina Friera, Página 12, sobre Quién no «Sus libros suelen proporcionarnos muy fecundos cruces entre niveles narrativos diferentes: en Las maldiciones está la ficción política pero también un nivel absolutamente íntimo que tiene que ver con la paternidad.»Eduardo Sacheri «Las maldiciones es una novela moral que te lleva al abismo de las oscuridades de las que son capaces los políticos para hundirse en la porquería dando la impresión de seguir impolutos.»Juan Cruz, El País (España) «Las viudas de los jueves es una novela ágil y un análisis implacable de un microcosmos social en acelerado proceso de decadencia.»José Saramago «Claudia Piñeiro arrancó con una perla rara, Tuya, un policial negro duro, pero de mujer, que usa con acelerador los elementos del género: la violencia, el engaño, los cruces complicados.»Elvio E. Gandolfo «Elena sabe es una historia sobrecogedora, narrada con gran hondura y economía de medios.»Rosa Montero
El teatro sucede en colores (Alfaguara Vuelve A Las Escuelas Ser.)
by Liliana BodocVersión teatral del libro Sucedió en colores. Cinco actos que nos conectan con las emociones y sentimientos profundos. Ideales para leer; disfrutar y también para representar en su versión de teatro. El libro es una invitación a leer teatro y a representar una pieza teatral. Inicia con una introducción "El teatro no es cuento"; que acerca a los lectores a la versión teatral de Sucedió en colores. En el acto ROJO; un diablo se enamora de la más hermosa de las vendedoras de manzanas del Mercado de las Rosas. Pero para que su amor se concrete tendrá que recibir por respuesta solo tres "Sí" de la encantadora muchacha. "Solo tres Sí"; ni una palabra más; ni una menos. En BLANCO; a la hora de los cuentos; un abuelo esquimal relata historias a sus nietos. Y la noche se llena de luna; luna del oso; luna entera; luna de lobo y luna muerta. Porque así es como se suceden las lunas en el cielo. Y luego se suceden tres relatos más; cada uno teñido de un color y de emociones intensas. Así se van sucediendo los colores, negro; amarillo y verde hasta conformar una pieza sensible y con personajes entrañables. Cada acto va creando un universo de juego; potencia la imaginación y la fantasía.
Utpal Dutt's Theatre: Continuities and Disjunctions in His Politics and Aesthetics (Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia #1)
by Uddalak DuttaThis book offers the reader an in-depth understanding of Utpal Dutt’s entire career in drama. Covering Dutt’s career in proscenium, street theatre and Jatra, it analyzes the interesting exchange of dramatic art with politics in his theatre. Owing to a plethora of unsubstantiated opinions, Dutt is either revered by his followers or dismissed by his opponents, but hardly ever studied with necessary objectivity and intellectual rigour. The book attempts to bust the myth that Dutt was primarily a political propagandist who used theatre only as a means to achieve his political end. The remarkable range of Dutt’s subject matter makes him as internationally significant as he is loved by Indian theatre enthusiasts. His work has been discussed on various reputed international platforms. Yet there is a stark lacuna when it comes to intellectual attention devoted to Dutt’s theatre. This is the first book which attempts to introduce Dutt’s theatre comprehensively to an international readership. The book looks briefly at Dutt’s life, the impact of his politics on his theatre, the art of his characterization, his dramaturgy and stage technique, and the legacy of his work in theatre. It also offers the reader with a chronological list of the first performances of his original theatrical works and an exhaustive bibliography, which, it is hoped, shall prove especially useful for researchers. The book is designed for lay theatre enthusiasts as well as advanced students of theatre.
Computer Assisted Music and Dramatics: Possibilities and Challenges (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1444)
by Ambuja Salgaonkar Makarand VelankarThis book is intended for researchers interested in using computational methods and tools to engage with music, dance and theatre. The chapters have evolved out of presentations and deliberations at an international workshop entitled Computer Assisted Music and Dramatics: Possibilities and Challenges organized by University of Mumbai in honour of Professor Hari Sahasrabuddhe, a renowned educator and a pioneering computational musicologist (CM) of Indian classical music. The workshop included contributions from CM as well as musicians with a special focus on South Asian arts. The case studies and reflective essays here are based on analyses of genres, practices and theoretical constructs modelled computationally. They offer a balanced and complementary perspective to help innovation in the synthesis of music by extracting information from recorded performances. This material would be of interest to scholars of the sciences and humanities and facilitate exchanges and generation of ideas.
Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics
by Jason GleckmanThis book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era – (double) predestination, conversion, and free will – it demonstrates how Protestant theologians, in England and elsewhere, re-imagined these longstanding Christian concepts from a specifically Protestant perspective. Shakespeare utilizes these insights to generate his distinctive view of human nature and the relationship between humans and God. Through in-depth readings of the Shakespeare comedies ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and ‘Twelfth Night’, the romance ‘A Winter’s Tale’, and the tragedies of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Hamlet’, this book examines the results of almost a century of Protestant thought upon literary art.
Beyond Shakespeare: Film Studies, Performance Studies, and Netflix
by Iris H. TuanWith joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works. The focus and common theme are on race, body, and class. With the background of COVID-19 since 2019 up to the present, the book offers the readers with the remarkable insight of human beings’ accumulated wisdom and experiences in surviving with the dreadful diseases like the plagues in Shakespeare’s time. After the supreme reading, may the global readers in the world acquire the knowledge and power to live in sustainability with education and entertainment of films, performances, and online streaming Netflix TV dramas.
Performance Arts: Research in the Age of Digital Revolution (Digital Culture and Humanities #4)
by Kwok-Kan TamThis volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts. Bringing together distinguished scholars from all over the world, the book serves as an arena for international scholars to introduce innovative research methodologies and disseminate their research findings regarding VLT, data archiving, and digital history and discusses the impacts of digital culture in art production, stage performance, film, and literature. The Ibsen focus in the book is illustrative of the power of digital database research that is generating new relations in spatial-historical dimensions that have otherwise gone unnoticed. It demonstrates how a new methodology can bring practical benefits to handling big data with the support of digital technologies. In line with the post-pandemic landscape, this book engages a reflection on how the digital revolution has brought about changes and challenges, and constraints and breakthroughs within the field of theatre and performance arts. It is of appeal to theatre artists and practitioners, scholars, critics, librarians, digital archive engineers, and postgraduate students interested in theatre, performance studies, digital media, information technology, library science, communication, education, sociology, as well as political science. “The book investigates the latest methodological development in digital cultures and performance arts, which significantly contributes to the ever-changing and increasingly advanced technological culture in this field.” - Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University, Canada"In line with the post-pandemic landscape, this book engages the reader in reflecting on how the digital revolution has brought about chances and challenges, constraints and breakthroughs to the field of theatre and performance arts. An original, eye-opening and inspiring volume at multiple levels, this book brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world." - Dr Anna Tso, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
From Stage to Screen: The Legacy of Traditional Chinese Theatre in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema Soundtracks
by Shuang WangChinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre. Film sound and music perform as the legitimate heirs of some of the aesthetic ideas and norms of traditional Chinese theatre. This book critically examines the history of this under-explored field of inquiry from a theoretically comparative perspective, demonstrating that the musical codes drawn from traditional theatre are a constantly changing component integral to Chinese martial arts cinema. It explores the interaction between traditional Chinese theatre and Chinese martial arts cinema in how the musical codes of the former have shaped the aesthetics of the latter uniquely. This departs from conventional existing studies that focus on “adaptation.” The book’s historical and theoretical approach connects film, theatre and music, and re-defines the status of distinctive domains of filmic expression, grounding theatre as the pivot – or “hinge” – of film aesthetics. The book proffers this unique angle of research to rethink and re-imagine film sound and audiovisual synchronisation. Primarily intended for scholars in Chinese cinema, film music, Chinese theatre and visual culture, this monograph also presents introductory and comprehensive material for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in film and media studies, film music, Chinese cinema, and Chinese theatre.
Gendered Identity and the Lost Female: Hybridity as a Partial Experience in the Anglophone Caribbean Performances
by Shrabani BasuThis book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective.In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean theatre and performance, this study of gendered identities chronicles the postcolonial hybrid experience – and how it varies in the context of questions of sex, performance and social designation. In the process, it examines the diverse performances of the anglophone Caribbean. The work includes works by Caribbean anglophone playwrights like Derek Walcott, Mustapha Matura, Michael Gikes, Dennis Scott, Trevor Rhone, Earl Lovelace and Errol John with more recent works of Pat Cumper, Rawle Gibbons and Tony Hall. The study would also engage with Carnival, calypso and chutney music, while commenting on its evolving influences over the hybrid imagination.Each section covers the dominant socio-political thematics associated with the tradition and its effect on it, followed by an analysis of contemporaneously significant literary and cultural works – plays, carnival narrative and calypso and chutney lyrics as well as the experiences of performers. From Lovelace’s fictional Jestina to the real-life Drupatee, the book critically explores the marginalization of female performances while forming a hybrid identity.
International Cases of Corporate Governance
by Jean Jinghan ChenThis book provides insights into current issues in corporate governance by examining twelve cases from the 2010s and 2020s where corporate governance was seen to be an issue. The cases are designed to introduce the reader to ‘real life’ episodes with corporate governance implications, shedding light on why corporate scandals continue to occuer, to what extent these are a corporate governance failure, and in which ways corporate governance – and the behaviour of those involved in ensuring good governance and an ethical culture in their business - may be improved in the future. This book will be of interest to businesspeople, students of business, and lawyers and motivate discussion on the reasons why corporate governance failed, or was seen to be inadequate.
Ecoscenography: An Introduction to Ecological Design for Performance
by Tanja BeerThis ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice. Ecoscenography weaves environmental philosophies and practices across genres and fields to provide a captivating vision for the future of sustainable theatre production. The book forefronts leading designers that are driving this emerging field into the mainstream through their relational and reciprocal engagement with place, audiences, materials, and processes. Beyond its radical philosophy and framework, Ecoscenography makes a compelling case for pursuing an ecological ethic in theatre and performance design, not only as a moral imperative, but for the extraordinary possibilities that it offers for more-than-human engagement. Based on her personal insights as a leading ecological researcher and practitioner, Beer offers a rich resource for scholars, students and practitioners alike, opening up new processes and aesthetics of theatrical design that enhance the environmental and social advocacy of the field.
Theatres of Dust: Climate Gothic Analysis in Contemporary Australian Drama and Performance Landscapes
by Linda HassallThrough a contemporary Gothic lens, the book explores theatre theories, processes and practices that explore; the impacts of continuing drought and natural disaster, the conflicts concerning resource extraction and mining and current political debates focussed on climate change denial. While these issues can be argued from various political and economic platforms, theatrical investigations as discussed here suggest that scholars and theatre makers are becoming empowered to dramaturgically explore the ecological challenges we face now and may face in the future. In doing so the book proposes that theatre can engage in not only climate change analysis and discussion but can develop climate literacies in a broader socio-cultural context.
Chinese Ibsenism: Reinventions of Women, Class and Nation
by Kwok-kan TamThis book is a study of the relation between theatre art and ideology in the Chinese experimentations with new selfhood as a result of Ibsen’s impact. It also explores Ibsenian notions of self, women and gender in China and provides an illuminating study of Chinese theatre as a public sphere in the dissemination of radical ideas. Ibsen is the major source of modern Chinese selfhood which carries notions of personal and social liberation and has exerted great impacts on Chinese revolutions since the beginning of the twentieth century. Ibsen’s idea of the self as an individual has led to various experimentations in theatre, film and fiction to project new notions of selfhood, in particular women’s selfhood, throughout the history of modern China. Even today, China is experimenting with Ibsen’s notions of gender, power, individualism and self.Kwok-kan Tam is Chair Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He was Head (2012-18) and is currently a member of the International Ibsen Committee, University of Oslo. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He has held teaching, research and administrative positions in various institutions, including the East-West Center, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Open University of Hong Kong. He has published numerous books and articles on Ibsen, Gao Xingjian, modern drama, Chinese film, postcolonial literature, and world Englishes. His recent books include Ibsen, Power and the Self: Postsocialist Experimentations in Stage Performance and Film (2019), The Englishized Subject: Postcolonial Writings in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia (2019), and a co-edited volume Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination (2019).
Modernization of Asian Theatres: Process and Tradition
by Yasushi Nagata Ravi ChaturvediThis volume focuses on the theatre history of Asian countries, and discusses the specific context of theatre modernization in Asia. While Asian theatre is one of the primary interests within theatre scholarship in the world today, knowledge of Asian theatre history is very limited and often surprisingly incorrect. Therefore, this volume addresses a major gap in contemporary theatre studies. The volume discusses the conflict between tradition and modernity in theatre, suggesting that the problems of modernity are closely related to the idea of tradition. Although Asian countries preserved the traditional form and values of their respective theatres, they had to also confront the newly introduced values or mechanisms of European modernity. Several papers in this volume therefore provide critical surveys of the history of theatre modernization in Asian countries or regions—Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India Malaysia, Singapore, and Uyghur. Other papers focus on specific case studies of the history of modernization, discussing contemporary Taiwanese performances, translations of modern French comedy into Chinese, the modernization of Chinese Xiqu, modern Okinawan plays, Malaysian traditional performances, Korean national theatre, and Japanese plays during World War II. Renowned academics and theatre critics have contributed to this volume, making it a valuable resource for researchers and students of theatre studies, literature, and cultural studies.
Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas: A Socio-Cultural Study
by Caroline ChiaThis book adopts a refreshing approach by examining Hokkien theatre in a region connected by maritime networks, notably southern Fujian, Taiwan, Kinmen and Singapore. It considers how regional theatre is shaped by broader socio-cultural and political contexts and the motivation to stay relevant in an era of modernisation and secularisation. Political domains are often marked out by land boundaries, but the sea concept denotes fluidity, allowing theatrical forms to spread across these ‘land-bounded’ societies and share a common language and culture."This is an insightful theatrical study on the web of Chinese cultural networks in southern China and Singapore, and by extension, between China and Southeast Asia in the twentieth century and beyond. Using diverse sources in multiple languages and extensive field ethnography, this is a ground-breaking study which is both didactic and inspiring."- Lee Tong Soon, author of Chinese Street Opera in Singapore (University of Illinois, 2009)."Focusing on Hokkien theatre, this book offers new insights into how Chinese performing art responds to geographical, temporal, and social changes. Historical sources in different languages are widely used to give access to the cultural characteristics of Hokkien theatre, offering valuable ethnographic reports on the contemporary practices of Hokkien theatre in Taiwan, Kinmen, and Singapore. The book comments on the changing ritualistic significance of Hokkien theatre, and help us understand how societies remember the past of a performing tradition, and shape its present."- Luo Ai Mei, Co-Editor of A Preliminary Survey of the Cantonese Eight Song Cycles in South China: History and Sources (2016)
Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India: Formation Of A Community Through Cultural Practice
by Sharmistha SahaThis book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but also as philosophical queries. It opens up with the discourse around ‘Indian theatre’ that was started by the orientalists in the late 18th century, and which continued till much later. The study specifically focuses on the two major urban centres of colonial India: Bombay and Calcutta of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It discusses different cultural practices in colonial India, including the initiation of ‘Indian theatre’ practices, which resulted in many forms of colonial-native ‘theatre’ by the 19th century; the challenges to this dominant discourse from the ‘swadeshi jatra’ (national jatra/theatre) in Bengal, which drew upon earlier folk and religious traditions and was used as a tool by the nationalist movement; and the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) that functioned from Bombay around the 1940s, which focused on the creation of one national subject – that of the ‘Indian’. The author contextualizes the relevance of the concept of ‘Indian theatre’ in today’s political atmosphere. She also critically analyses the post-Independence Drama Seminar organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1956 and its relevance to the subsequent organization of ‘Indian theatre’. Many theatre personalities who emerged as faces of smaller theatre committees were part of the seminar which envisioned a national cultural body. This book is an important contribution to the field and is of interest to researchers and students of cultural studies, especially Theatre and Performance Studies, and South Asian Studies.
International Theatre Olympics
by Jae Kyoung KimThis pivot examines how the Theatre Olympics, born in 1995, have served to enrich each host country's culture, community, and foreign relations. Looking at the host country's political, social, and cultural circumstances, it considers how the festival expands the notion of Olympism beyond its application to the Olympic Games, expressing the spirit of Olympism and interculturalism in each country's distinct cultural language. It also emphasizes the festival's development over the twenty years of its existence and how each festival's staging has reflected the national identity, theatre tradition, and cultural interest of the hosting country at that time, as well as how each festival director's artistic principle has attempted to accomplish cultural exchange through their productions.
En otro lugar
by Susan MailerUn libro conmovedor y de hondo calado sicológico sobre lo que implicó para descubrir su propio camino ser la hija de uno de los escritores más polémicos y controversiales del siglo XX. En otro lugar es la historia de una hija y de su padre, del vínculo de ambos. Pero no es cualquier padre. Se trata de uno de los más destacados, talentosos y controversiales escritores del siglo XX: Norman Mailer. Conocido por ser un hombre combativo y egoísta, que disfrutaba pelear tanto en lo físico como en lo verbal, estuvo al centro de los grandes debates y discusiones culturales de Estados Unidos durante más de cincuenta años. Se casó seis veces y fue padre de nueve hijos. Susan, nacida en 1949, es la mayor. Sus padres se separaron cuando era bebé, por lo que creció viajando entré México y Nueva York, hasta que se radica en Chile, donde ha vivido gran parte de su vida adulta. Este libro de memorias y recuerdos reconstruye la relación con su padre, intensa y compleja, con sus cinco madrastras y sus 8 hermanos. Cuenta las alegrías y dolores que ha significado para ella ser parte del clan Mailer. Una historia de separación, de las luchas de vivir en dos culturas muy diferentes, un libro sobre el desarraigo y las implicancias de pertenecer a todas partes y a ninguna.
El mundo abajo
by Patricio JaraUna de las voces más interesantes de la narrativa chilena contemporánea. En estos siete espléndidos cuentos, Patricio Jara nos sumerge en los mundos subterráneos de hombres y mujeres que, por diversas razones, son enfrentados a la tragedia. Entre el desierto de Atacama y la periferia de la gran ciudad, los relatos se conectan y nos permiten ingresar al universo psicológico de quienes habitan estos paisajes. Una piloto que diseña las rutas de los aviones, un buzo profesional que no quiere volver al mar después de un accidente y una pareja de investigadores en la desembocadura del río Loa son algunos de los personajes que difuminan la línea entre lo correcto e incorrecto, y que demuestran que el paso de lo cotidiano a lo siniestro es estrecho. Un conjunto de relatos donde lo temible se abre paso con la fuerza del oleaje.
Julio César para jóvenes y no tanto
by Fernando VillegasAño 44 a. C. El hombre más poderoso de Roma se dirige al Senado en los fatídicos Idus de marzo. Se jugaba el destino de la República. Una época fascinante y turbulenta a la que Fernando Villegas viaja para contarnos esta gran historia. Julio César para jóvenes y no tanto es un ensayo sutil que enseña y entretiene.