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Wellsprings
When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa--Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual--answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. In "Four Centuries of Don Quixote," he revisits the quintessential Spanish novel--a fiction about fiction whose ebullient prose still questions the certainties of our stumbling ideals. In recounting his illicit, delicious discovery of Borges' fiction--"the most important thing to happen to imaginative writing in the Spanish language in modern times"--Vargas Llosa stands in for a generation of Latin American nov...
Lost in Transition
This book examines contemporary recollection of Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s and its connection to the country's current political, financial and cultural crises through fiction, film, and television.
Stabilising Fragile Democracies
The first book to provide a systematic comparison of the democratic transitions in both Eastern and Southern Europe, covering Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria.
Working Through Memory
Studies various constructions of memory in contemporary Spanish literature, evoking different aspects of a past of repression, from both the civil war and the Franco regime. This book analyzes narrative texts published between the 1960s and 1990s that present memory and the recuperation of a traumatic past as their main theme.
The Politics of Contemporary Spain
The Politics of Contemporary Spain charts the trajectory of Spanish politics since the transition to democracy through to the present day, including the aftermath of the Madrid bombings.
Terrorism in Context
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Pilgrim Stories
Unlike the religiously-oriented pilgrims who visit Marian shrines such as Lourdes, the modern Road of St. James attracts an ecumenical mix of largely wel.
The Op-Ed Novel
The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of El País. Their literary sensibility transformed opinion journalism, and their weekly columns changed their novels, which became venues for speculative historical claims, partisan political projects, and intellectual argument.
Innovative Leaders in International Politics
In today's world, national leaders have immense power to make decisions affecting millions of lives, both domestically and internationally. Yet questions about the performance of these leaders, and specifically what psychological or external factors determine whether they will be innovative and effective or will muddle through, have received surprisingly little attention. An introductory section presents main themes in the study of innovative leadership and in addition reviews the existing, inadequate state of our knowledge. The two subsequent sections further explore the basic questions through case studies of leaders in democratic systems and in transitional or authoritarian systems. By looking at the individual records of such major twentieth-century leaders as De Gaulle, Adenauer, Gandhi, Gorbachev, Sadat, and several American presidents, the authors contribute fresh insights about the particular leaders, consider how the type of system in which they functioned enhanced or constrained their innovativeness, and shed light on the broader questions of what factors encourage or inhibit successful innovation in the international sphere.
Adolfo Suárez
La obra definitiva sobre Adolfo Suárez, el primer presidente de la democracia, con todas sus luces y todas sus sombras. Nombrado por sorpresa presidente de un gobierno autoritario en julio de 1976 y dimitido también por sorpresa como presidente de una democracia en enero de 1981, la trayectoria personal y política de Adolfo Suárez quizá simbolice mejor que ninguna otra lo que fue la España de las postrimerías del franquismo y la transición. Odiado hasta lo patológico por muchos durante su apogeo, y con el tiempo ensalzado por la mayoría, Suárez es sin duda una pieza clave en la construcción de la democracia. En esta extraordinaria biografía, Gregorio Morán, autor de un primer y polémico libro sobre Suárez en 1979, revisita al personaje no solo para contarnos el resto de su trayectoria, hasta la ya famosa foto con el Rey el 18 de julio de 2008, sino también reevaluar, a la luz de la España de hoy, un periodo fundamental de nuestra historia reciente. Reseña: «El perfil más cercano y verídico de un hombre que ya es historia viva de este país.» Cambio 16
