La educación ilustrada, 1786-1836

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

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En Chile, los cambios profundos que se han producido desde finales del siglo XX, junto con la elección de Ricardo Lagos en 2000, se insertan en un amplio marco de cambios artísticos, políticos, sociales y económicos mayores en el continente iberoamericano. Esta evolución actual incita a los diversos autores del presente volumen, coordinado por Laetitia Boussard y Benoît Santini, a proponer una reflexión global sobre el contexto chileno, entendiéndolo en un sentido múltiple y considerándose obviamente el contexto histórico, pero también los contextos sociales, así como artísticos ...

Books have changed the course of universal history; they have opened new horizons and have made available the knowledge of philosophers, poets, scientists and artists. With this volume, Zschirnt tries to present a series of books that will help us understand the complexity of modern society: from the Bible to Harry Potter through Shakespeare, Beckett and Balzac, from Lope de Vega through Borges and Juan Rulfo; this is a compass to sail through the world of books.