La biblioteca de los malditos

A veces, los desafíos de la vida son mayores que el valor y las fuerzas disponibles. Entonces sólo ayuda algo: Cerrar los ojos y adelante. Y cuando los abres de nuevo, la vida es, de pronto, más bella.

A beautifully produced, comprehensive look at Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez that traces her alluring and evocative paintings and sculpture from the 1950s to today Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926) often says, “Soy isla” (“I am an island”), expressing her desire for solitary, uncompromising practice. It also serves as a metaphor for her experience as an islander—connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents, such as concretism, gestural abstraction, and minimalism. Characterized by reductive forms, clean lines, and sensuous curves suggestive of...

Sociosemántica de la Amistad, fue presentada por Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo, para su admisión como miembro del Círculo Lingüístico de Medellín. Su lectura se produjo, en diciembre de 1990, dentro de los Coloquios Lingüísticos que se realizaban mensualmente en el Auditorio del Banco de la República, Medellín – Colombia. El texto se publicó en la Revista Coloquios Lingüísticos, 1991.

The objective of the book is to resolve one of the many enigmas posed by the history of Ibero-Romance dialects in general and Spanish in particular - the strange palatalization (unconditioned, sporadic and incomplete) of /s/. Over and above this central concern, the book also pursues a fundamentally theoretical aim inspired by two preoccupations of a metalinguistic nature, the delimitation of historical linguistics and the circumstantial nature of linguistic investigation.