El castellano en las tierras de habla catalana

Beto Ortiz vuelve al lugar del crimen. Es nuestro cronista de la huida. El prófugo que pasea por el mundo algunas tristezas pero siempre regresa, maltrecho, tras perder otra vez las mismas guerras: una familia que se deshace ante sus ojos, un corazón en perpetua clandestinidad, un país que se derrumba sobre su cabeza. Hay personas que son destinos y los destinos están escritos. Como este libro. Con la crueldad de un niño que trae noticias horribles con una sonrisa.

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

'Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America' evokes an image of the 1980s in Latin America that establishes a counterpoint between the effects of violence on bodies and the radical experiments in freedom and transformation which impugned the repressive order. Stricken bodies / mutant bodies. Between horror and festivity, the materials gathered show not only the consequences of mass disappearances and massacres under dictatorial régimes, states of siege and internal wars, but also various collective urges to devise modes of existing in a permanent state of...

Die Buchreihe ‚Patronymica Romanica’ ist das Publikationsorgan des Forschungsprojekts ‚Dictionnaire historique de l’anthroponymie romane’, als dessen Ergebnis sukzessive das gleichnamige Wörterbuch in 6 Bänden erscheint. Neben den namenskundlichen Quellen (Steuer- und Melderegister) werden v.a. Studien aus dem weiten Feld der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit den Familiennamen im Besonderen und den Personennamen im Allgemeinen publiziert.