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Tres etapas consecutivas. La primera mitad del siglo; entre 1950 y 1975 y desde 1975 hasta la fecha; produce la secuencia de ideas sobre España que se actualizan en esta lección: un país; un país marcado por el fracaso y, en ese sentido, diferente; y un país normal, aunque no en crisis de identidad.

Tres ensayos sobre el significado y la simbología del carnaval: Umberto Eco, V. V. Ivanov y Mónica Rector se sumergen en las formas de la fiesta carnavalesca y examinan la naturaleza de su sentido transgresor, las figuras emblemáticas y sus relaciones de contenido, el código y el mensaje de la fiesta, el mundo al revés, la catarsis. Más que un libro de erudición, es un libro de celebración.

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"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...