Etiqueta: Literature
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The Woman with No Name (La mujer sin nombre)
A writer silenced by History… until now. Stage director Noelia Cid is a hardworking, disciplined, intuitive, and highly organized woman. When she is commissioned to direct Spell, a play by renowned playwright Gregorio Martínez Sierra, she decides to use the documents that his wife María Lejárraga preserved, to conduct the research. Noelia is…
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A Revolver to Carry at Night (Un revólver para salir de noche)
Lolita made him eternally famous but it was Vera Nabokov to whom Vladimir really owes his success. Vera Nabokov conscious of sharing her life with an extraordinary man decided to make his life hers. She was the first to read his texts and prepare them for printing. She is in charge of their finances, his…
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Roses from Stalin (Las rosas de Stalin)
My name is Svetlana Alliluyeva. I was born on February 28, 1926. My father died in 1953. His name was Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s favorite, his only daughter had a rough awakening at 16 years old. She discovered her mother had died of suicide, not natural causes, and her father was a ruthless dictator. Her first…
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The Intruder (La intrusa)
An intimate portrait of Dalí’s muse. Gala Dalí was a woman who wished to be secretive. Although the men with whom she shared her life were to become so famous they would eventually become universal figures, she decided to remain in the background, to the extent that her image became that of a cold,…
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The Grammar of Love (La gramática del amor)
The grammar of love is studied with the heart. Irene is a nice, intelligent girl who loves to read. After her parent’s divorce she is sent to a boarding school to study. At only 16 years old, Irene is going through a very rough patch. Her luck seems to turn around when Liam, the…
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Kafka and the Traveling Doll (Kafka y la muñeca viajera)
A little girl loses her doll and Kafka convinces her that it’s on vacation. A year before his death, Franz Kafka lived a very unusual experience. Strolling through Steglitz Park in Berlin, he found a little girl crying inconsolably: she had lost her doll. To reassure the little girl, the author of The…
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Supersaurus (Supersaurio)
The best portrait of the millennial generation. "I was born in the '90s and grew up in the 2000s. I've survived a lot of horrible things: low-rise pants, Kate Winslet's supposed chubbiness, ultra-thin eyebrows. I will survive this, too." Meryem, a Canarian from a Moroccan family, is 25 years old, drinks too…
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Uncle Bill
A pop culture icon's time in Mexico. The 40s. Famous writer William S. Burroughs (Bill) began his career as one of the most mythical and mad characters of the slums of New York City. He experimented with any and every drug he could get his hands on, and quickly turned into a heroin addict,…
