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Including Homage to Catalonia 'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighting in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism, essays, letters and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened amid a 'crop of lies' from...

INTRODUCCIÓN Una advertencia antes de empezar Ernestina de Champourcin Carmen Conde Una amistad epistolar El entorno cultural de finales de los veinte La literatura femenina Una larga trayectoria poética Sobre la edición EPISTOLARIO (1927-1995) BIBLIOGRAFÍA

In 1978, when the Red Brigades kidnapped and murdered politician and Communist leader Aldo Moro, shocking all of Italy, Leonardo Sciascia, then MP for the Radical Party, participated in the commission that investigated the incident. That same year, on the fly, he wrote The Moro Case, which reads like a novel, but the author felt, above all, a work of truth.

La autoficción, el juego intertextual y la diversidad de registros que oscilan desde la narración hasta el ensayo caracterizan esta novela que se enmascara tras un libro de viajes para ofrecer una mirada irónica y provocadora sobre la vida del artista en el mundo contemporáneo y en otras épocas históricas. Divertida, desenfadada, dramática en ocasiones, la trama de Cuestiones de agua y tierra indaga en el torbellino de las más altas (y bajas) pasiones humanas y nos invita a reflexionar sobre nociones tan complejas como patria, identidad, compromiso, amor y ética. Es la vida misma...