New Spanish Titles - Spring 2012

They say that, a hundred years or so ago, a girl who had been promised in marriage was deceived by a false lover. They say, too, that her tears brought her a genuine suitor, who avenged the outrage. And they say that, since then, the Drinker of Tears wanders around with his sword, waiting to avenge every girl who is deceived.

The protagonist of this cumulative story with a circular structure is a sort of Prince who, tired of solitude, embarks on a journey of initiation.

The thinking of Gilles Deleuze has been one of the great philosophical happenings of the second half of the 20th century.: today we have no doubt about this, due to the wide ranging influence of his work, the consistency with which his ideas resist the advances of the present, their constant reappearance at each turn of the modern intellectual path and, as if this wasn't enough, the incessa

Italy in the Second World War: the American poet Ezra Pound takes part, via Radio Rome, in the propaganda war against the allies and against the Jews. But Pound's Nazi fervour over the airwaves arouses the suspicions of the Italian counter-espionage service. The radio was by now a tool to inflame, indoctrinate and mobilise the masses, a weapon of war and device of spies.