Reading the Spanish Past

• Author : Robert Richmond Ellis
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021

• Author : Michael Sisskin-Fernández
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021

• Author : Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Release : 01 August 2021

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one

• Author : Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Publisher : Orion
• Release : 01 August 2021

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one

• Author : Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Release : 14 February 2013

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'La Sombra del Viento' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one

• Author : Lorraine Ryan
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 22 April 2016

Focusing on literary texts produced from 2000 to 2009, Lorraine Ryan examines the imbrication between the preservation of Republican memory and the transformations of Spanish public space during the period from 1931 to 2005. Accordingly, Ryan analyzes the spatial empowerment and disempowerment of Republican memory and identity in Dulce Chacón’s Cielos de barro, Ángeles López’s Martina, la rosa número trece, Alberto Méndez’s ’Los girasoles ciegos,’ Carlos Ruiz Zafón ́s La sombra del viento, Emili Teixidor’s

• Author : Luis Martin-Estudillo,Nicholas Spadaccini
• Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
• Release : 27 September 2010

Hispanic Studies; Literature; Latin American Studies.

• Author : Fiona Schouten
• Publisher : Peter Lang
• Release : 01 August 2021

After decades of uncomfortable silence, Spain has now started dealing with its violent twentieth-century past. In recent years, a vibrant memory discourse has emerged in Spanish society: the number of films, TV series, newspaper articles, history books, and memorials dedicated to the Civil War of 1936-1939 and the ensuing dictatorship of Franco has increased dramatically. Literature has also played its part in provoking and maintaining this memory boom, and as a consequence, the study of contemporary Spanish novels has started

• Author : Gudea de Lagash
• Publisher : Palibrio
• Release : 01 October 2013

...va pasando el tiempo en un ir y venir por el pasillo, y para el alba la tormenta ha perdido la fuerza, mientras que la Escopetilla" ha recuperado las suyas. Recostada entre las almohadas, sorbe una infusión de contrití que Junípero ha hecho para ella. A su lado, Juan José le toma el pulso que ahora late con normalidad. Ninguno de los tres tiene explicación para lo sucedido, hasta que entre las almohadas una bolsa del tamañ

• Author : Micheline Dusseck
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 25 March 2014

1789 was the beginning of major changes in France and one of its most prized colony, Santo Domingo. The revolution changed the traditional structures of society but this turbulence brought out the greatness and the perversity of its protagonists. Joséphine no exception; explosive mixture of races, warm-hearted woman, young maverick, live a thousand adventures in search of personal fulfillment both in love and in the society of his time. Rebel despite their status as slave, accept the authority of one

• Author : Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Publisher : Subterranean
• Release : 01 May 2011

• Author : Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 June 2012

Barcelona, 1957. It is the week before Christmas in the Sempere & Sons bookshop...a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters the shop... an epic tale of imprisonment, betrayal, murder and love that leads back into the very heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books

• Author : Helleke van den Braber,Jeroen Dera,Jos Joosten,Maarten Steenmeijer
• Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
• Release : 20 April 2021

As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained little academic discussion in the field of literary studies. Literary authors and the texts they produce, though, are constantly 'branded': from the early modern period onwards, they have been both the object and the initiator of a complex marketing process. This book analyzes this branding process throughout

• Author : Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Publisher : Text Publishing
• Release : 30 January 2012

When his family moves to an old house by the sea, Max discovers an abandoned garden of mysterious statues positioned on a six-pointed star. In the centre rising out of the mist stands a clown, its arm outstretched. Then Max meets Roland, and soon Max realises that he is not the only one to be affected by the clown's sinister presence.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Firenze University Press
• Release : 01 August 2021