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Espasa-Calpe opened Casa del Libro in Gran Vía, Madrid, [7] which continued with the direction of Enciclopedia Espasa. [8] In addition, it established a headquarters in Buenos Aires, where it was extended into Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico and Cuba. [8] In 1991, Espasa-Calpe was acquired by Grupo Planeta, which paid 15.000 million Spanish ...
The House of the Spirits (Spanish: La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982. [2] It became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed, and catapulted Allende to literary stardom.
The House of Snails (Spanish: La casa del caracol) is a 2021 psychological thriller film with rural horror and fantasy elements directed by Macarena Astorga [] from a screenplay by Sandra García Nieto based on García Nieto's novel La casa del caracol which stars Javier Rey alongside Paz Vega and Carlos Alcántara.
Casa del Lago has multiplied its cultural offers in the same way that the university community and the creators and public communities have increased, keeping alive that "dialogue between history and present as a basis of their identity", making permanent that spirit of risk, of its vocation in the search for the experimental, emergent and ...
Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez (translation: "Book of the liberal invention and art of the game of chess") is one of the first books published about modern chess in Europe, after Pedro Damiano's 1512 book. It was written by Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura in 1561 and published in Alcalá de Henares.
La casa (Spanish: "The House") is a 1954 novel by Argentine writer Manuel Mujica Lainez. [1]It tells the story of a family living in a stately Buenos Aires mansion from the heyday of Argentina's oligarchy in the 1880s to some time in the post-1946 period, the era of Peronist populism, seen typically as incarnating the end of History, the crisis of modern civilization.
The winners of a state lottery, a cross section of the citizens of Buenos Aires, have received tickets for a mysterious luxury cruise. Summoned to meet in a popular café and escorted under the cover of darkness to the secret location of their ship, they embark without knowing where they are headed.
He was the director of the Casa de la Cultura (1963) and of the National Museum of History (1964–1966). In 1968, Arguedas was awarded the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega literary prize, [ 3 ] where he gave his famous [ 4 ] [ 5 ] speech No soy un aculturado (I am not an acculturated man), which has been described by academic sources as a "powerful ...