'Emilia Olivera, a real and humble woman, a native of the Central American country of Belize, becomes, thanks to Víctor

Manuel Durán’s literary talent, the true embodiment of the Belizean woman, a proud unbreakable spirit, a demanding

mother and a loyal companion, who was able, with grace and determination, to face both joyful events and harsh tragedies

during her long life in Progreso, a village in the Corozal District in the country of Belize.

Emilia, mother of Víctor Manuel Durán an...

Послушайте! Listen Up! is intended for intermediate-level students who want to improve their listening and speaking communication skills. Focusing on language in the context of everyday communicative acts (e.g. making requests, seeking and giving advice, apologizing etc.), the book provides students with multiple opportunities to practice listening and speaking in a variety of real-life situations. A host of individual, pair, and group activities in each chapter develop effective li...

Amy Williamsen (1959-2019) was a beloved teacher, scholar, colleague and mentor to those fortunate enough to have known and worked with her during her magnificent career at Occidental College (1985-1989), the University of Arizona (1989-2011), and the University of North Carolina Greensboro (2011-2019). Her impressive publication record includes the monograph Co(s)mic Chaos: Exploring Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Juan de la Cuesta, 1994), five co-edited volumes (The University Press...

Amy Williamsen (1959-2019) was a beloved teacher, scholar, colleague and mentor to those fortunate enough to have known and worked with her during her magnificent career at Occidental College (1985-1989), the University of Arizona (1989-2011), and the University of North Carolina Greensboro (2011-2019). Her impressive publication record includes the monograph Co(s)mic Chaos: Exploring Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Juan de la Cuesta, 1994), five co-edited volumes (The University Press...

Ernest George Henham (1870-1948), writing both under his own name and with the pseudonym of "John Trevena," has until now been a "lost" writer, yet of remarkable achievement; indeed, he is a writer of greater range and power than any other West Country author with the possible exception of the more celebrated Thomas Hardy-who remains very much in print. Nevertheless, Henham/ Trevena also is surely a masterful English language novelist and a cultural figure of courage and vision, responding to...

Aan Zee is about the tragic-comic search of a man for his identity between two cultures. It is a modern Bildungsroman, in the sense that the heroe searches for a purpose and is transformed in the process. Hubert Belovski, a German-born scientist now living in the United States of America, is confronted with his past in the shape of a former girlfriend, as he goes to Scheveningen in the Netherlands, following an invitation to speak at a Conference on Fluid Dynamics. Aan Zee is the name of his ...

'Was it an intuition that made me select -- I think at the beginning of my adolescence – a form of approach to life linked to English literature through Shakespeare? And can one talk in this case of literature? I think not, I think that even though it was made concrete in a regular reading of the Stratford genius in the middle of the night, it had to do with a study of the possibilities of the human soul and the different models offered us. I would identify with male and female characters, ...

'La obra de teatro de Alain Saint-Saëns tiene la gran originalidad de ubicar en los trágicos acontecimientos del Marzo Paraguayo de 1999 un marco para el drama del romance entre dos estudiantes ansiosos de abrir el horizonte a su propio país que avanza ahora en democracia. Con acierto de la ambientación, evocando con familiaridad lugares y actividades tan características de la hermosa Asunción, Alain Saint-Saëns, observador penetrante, intelectual francés, revela de un inusual do...

Renée Ferrer's first novel, Los nudos del silencio, has been translated into Italian and French, and is now presented in English. This complex narrative of intrigue, memories, and suspense merits the attention of an active and perceptive audience that can piece together the variegated lines of thought shared by the protagonists of the novel. Three very different worlds come together under one roof in the sordid confines of a striptease joint in Paris. Poetic and vulgar voices mingle and dive...

Los trabajos reunidos en este libro representan un homenaje al escritor de origen francés radicado desde 2008 en Paraguay, país cuyo destino histórico ha marcado poderosamente su universo mental y literario, y en cuyo destino cultural se ha propuesto, con éxito, intervenir de forma activa.

Los textos reunidos aquí no pueden dejar de referirse, al menos de forma tangencial, a otros géneros practicados por el literato francés: sobre todo, la poesía, que es su principal forma de expresi�...