Blog del Instituto Cervantes de Londres

Echa un vistazo a nuestra selección de libros, discos, canciones, películas para celebrar el día  de San Valentín.
Take a look at our selection of books, songs, movies, to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

DVD’S

Fresa y chocolate Tomás Gutiérrez Alea y Juan Carlos Tabío
El amor perjudica seriamente la salud Manuel Gómez Pereira
El otro lado de la cama Emilio Mtnez Lázaro
Los amantes del Círculo Polar Julio Médem
Tensión sexual no resuelta Miguel Ángel Lamata
El mismo amor, la misma lluvia Campanella
A los que aman Isabel Coixet
Amor en defensa propia Rafa Russo
Bienvenido a casa David Trueba
Como agua para chocolate Alfonso Arau
El cielo abierto Miguel Albaladejo
La camarera del Titanic Bigas Luna
Todas las azafatas van al cielo Daniel Burman

POESíA | POETRY

Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973)  20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada / Pablo Neruda — Madrid: Visor, [1997?] A P/L NER
De todo corazón : 111 poemas de amor / D P A de INV

LIBROS | BOOKS

Cuentos al amor de la lumbre / IJ ALM cue
Cuentos de amor con humor / J. Vicent Marqués.*  LG 3 pop
Tusquets, Esther (1936-)  Con la miel en los labios N TUS con
Loriga, Ray (1967-)   El bebedor de lágrimas / Ray Loriga.  N LOR beb
Vargas Llosa, El elogio de la madrastra N/LVAR elo
Gallego García, Laura (1977-)  El fútbol y el amor son incompatibles J GAL sar/4
Gil, Carmen (1962-) Cuando te enamoras J GIL cua
Sádaba, Javier (1940-)    El amor contra la moral 17 SAD amo
Marina, José Antonio (1939-)  Palabras de amor  17 MAR pal
Cruz Rodríguez, Manuel (1951-)Amo, luego existo : los filósofos y el amor: 159 CRU
Sádaba, Javier (1940-)  El amor y sus formas LOND 159 SAD amo
Ripoll, Ana (1971-)  La reina azul / Ana Ripoll.– Madrid : Siruela, 2011. N RIP rei

E-BOOKS

Los cien mejores poemas de amor de la lengua española Recurso-e/Libro-e /  Luis Rafael (selección y pórtico).
La espalda de Dios [ Recurso e.Vídeo] /  dir. y guión, Pablo Llorca; fotografía, Crespo Pérez; producción, La Cicatriz.
Todo el amor buscando mi corazón [ Recurso e. Libro-e] : antología poética: elección de Francisco Garzón Céspedes y José Víctor Martínez Gil. Maruja Vieira.

MUSICA | MUSIC

Amancio Prada Canciones de amor y celda
Enrique Iglesias Cosas del Amor    CD POP igl
Azúcar Moreno  El amor [Disco compacto] CD POP azu

Mas informaciónes | More info

Próximo club de conversación @ Hispania
14/02/2014, 18.00-19:30 h

72-74 Lombard Street EC3V 9AY
£10 (on the door)

Next sessions:

@ Cervantes
 28 de febrero – 28 de marzo – 25 de abril – 23 de mayo – 27 de junio 2014

@ Hispania
14 de marzo – 11 de abril – 9 de mayo- 13 de junio 2014

Más información | More info

Próximo club de conversación @ Cervantes
24/01/2014, 18.00-19:30 h

Instituto Cervantes London
102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN
£10 (on the door)

Next sessions:

@ Cervantes
 28 de febrero – 28 de marzo – 25 de abril – 23 de mayo – 27 de junio 2014

@ Hispania
14 de febrero – 14 de marzo – 11 de abril – 9 de mayo- 13 de junio 2014

Más información | More info

Esta Navidad… e-books y más

Si todavía no conoces el servicio de préstamo de libros electrónicos para los socios de la biblioteca, aprovecha estas vacaciones de Navidad para empezar a utilizarlo. Solamente tienes que hacer clic aquí* para ver lo fácil que es usarlo donde quiera que estés con acceso a Internet.

Además de miles de e-books de autores españoles y latinoamericanos,  en nuestra plataforma podéis encontrar video cuentos  para niños  y documentales en streaming que podéis ver durante las vacaciones de Navidad. ¡Esperamos que disfrutéis con el servicio!

¡Felices fiestas!

*Recuerda: para acceder al servicio necesitas tu número de tarjeta y contraseña (4 últimos números)

La biblioteca estará cerrada desde el sábado 21/12/13 hasta el  lunes 06/01/14, ambos inclusive

This Christmas… E-books and more!

If you still don´t know our e-books lending service for library members, make the most of this Christmas to start using it. You will only have to click here* to see how easy it is to use. It´s an entertaining way to learn or practise your Spanish and the good thing is that you can read your e-books anywhere where you have access to the Internet.

On top of thousands of e-books by Spanish and Latin-American authors you will find video stories for children and documentaries for adults in streaming that you can watch over the winter holidays. We hope that you will enjoy!

Happy holidays!

*Remember! To access this service you’ll need your library card number and password (last 4 digits)

The library will be closed from Saturday 21/12/13 until Monday 06/01/14

21st Century Fiction from Latin America 

La biblioteca cerrará entre los días 21/12/13 hasta el 06/01/14, ambos inclusive.
La biblioteca os desea ¡Felices fiestas!

The Library will be closed from 21/12/13 until the 06/01/14.
The Library Team would like to take this opportunity to wish you all Happy Holidays!

 Os recomendamos El tiempo de Manolo, un minucioso relato biográfico de la juventud de su autor Ismael María González Arias. En esta etapa se entregó al disfrute pleno del placer, al que, como tiene demostrado de sobra, sigue entregado en la actualidad. Valiéndose de un estilo narrativo torrencial y vivísimo, González Arias descubre por primera vez lo que para muchos va a resultar imperdonable: los misteriosos detalles de la vida de un pueblo allá por 1975.

La amistad, el amor, el sexo, las drogas y la muerte son, en resumidas cuentas, los ingredientes básicos en este «plato fuerte» que no tiene ninguna intención moralizante pero sí una clara vocación de homenaje, público y notorio, a una forma de vivir que, en ciertas circunstancias, resulta la única posible.

Para accede a nuestra plataforma de audiolibros pinche aquí

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We would like to  recommend you El tiempo de Manolo,  a detailed biographical story about the youth of his author, Ismael María González Arias. During that time, he fully enjoyed the pleasures of life, something we are aware that he is still doing at the moment. Using a rich and lively narrative style, González Arias discovers the mysterious details of life in a small town for the first time in 1975.

Friendship, love, sex, drugs and death are, to put it in a nutshell, the basic ingredients of a book that doesn´t have any moralizing purpose. It is indeed a public and noticeable tribute to a way of life that in some circumstances turns out to be the only possible one.

To access our audiobooks platform, click here

Conferencia
Una mirada al Pacifico: el océano en la Historia Global

A cargo del Prof. Felipe Fernández-Armesto
JUE 28 NOV – 6.30pm
Auditorio del Instituto Cervantes de Londres

Para conmemorar el V centenario del descubrimiento del Pacifico, el Instituto Cervantes de Londres ha organizado una conferencia con la participación del profesor Felipe Fernández Armesto. Doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Oxford. Es catedrático de la Universidad de Londres y de la Tufts University de Massachusetts. De sus libros traducidos a 23 idiomas , destacan los títulos Colon(1992), Milenium (1995), Civilizaciones (2002), Los conquistadores del Horizonte. Una historia mundial de la exploración (2006).

En inglés

Organizado por Instituto Cervantes Londres
Entrada libre con reserva obligatoria reservas.londres@cervantes.es / 02072010752

*Con motivo de la conferencia que impartirá el catedrático Felipe Fernández-Armesto, ponemos a disposición de nuestros usuarios los libros que tenemos escritos por él en nuestra biblioteca.

Lecture
Gazing on the Pacific: The Ocean in Global History

By Prof. Felipe Fernández-Armesto
THU 28 NOV – 6.30pm
Auditorium Instituto Cervantes London

To commemorate the 500 years of the discovery of the Pacific Ocean, The Institute Cervantes has organised a lecture with the participation of Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a British historian and author of several popular works of history. Felipe Fernandez Armesto joined the history department at the University of Notre Dame in 2009, after occupying chairs at Tufts University and the University of London (Queen Mary College). He had spent most of his career teaching at Oxford, where he was an undergraduate and doctoral student. He has had visiting appointments at many universities and research institutes in Europe and the Americas, and has honorary doctorates from La Trobe University and the Universidad de los Andes. He began his teaching career at Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey where he was widely admired for his flamboyant bow ties.

In English

Organised by Instituto Cervantes Londres
Admission free booking essential reservas.londres@cervantes.es / 02072010752

*We are please to present the books we have in our library written by Professor Mr. Felipe Fernández-Armestos.

Nos complace presentaros tanto en soporte papel como en e-book 3 libros de autores españoles de reconocido prestigio traducidos al inglés que acabamos de recibir. Para accede al libro electrónico, hacer clic aquí. Para consultar el catálogo y ver la disponibilidad de los libros en papel, haz clic aquí.

We are happy to present you these three new books that just arrived in our library in paper format and in e-book format. To access the e-books, please click here. To see the availability in paper format, please, click here.

THE FAINT-HEARTED BOLSHEVIK   Lorenzo Silva; Translated by  Nick Caistor and Isabelle Kaufeler

Short-listed for one of the most prestigious literary awards in Spain before being made into a successful film, The Faint-hearted Bolshevik has, over the fifteen years since its first edition, become an undisputed classic of contemporary Spanish literature. One morning in a traffic jam on his way to work, a driver is distracted and slams into the car in front. When the woman driving the other car reacts with a torrent of abuse out of all proportion to the incident, the driver cracks and decides to teach her a lesson, by dedicating his whole summer to ruining this foul woman’s life. But his plans for revenge are thrown by the sudden appearance of Rosana, his intended victim’s compelling teenage sister, and he finds himself and his base instincts severely tested …

 Caught up in this impossible affair, the man’s thoughts turn in moments of weakness to that famous photo of the last Tsar’s daughters, as he tries to put himself in the place of the Bolshevik hired to kill the beautiful Grand Duchess Olga; a man who was surely, just like him, a victim of his own faint-heartedness.

 So, within a story somewhere between comedy, suspense and melodrama, Lorenzo Silva uses his main character to present a vicious critique of today’s world of work, and the inner conflicts of a frustrated middle-aged man, which is at the same time a story of ill-fated love with an unexpected twist.

NOTHING EVER HAPPENS     by José Ovejero;  Translated by Philip H. D. Smith and Graziella de Luis

Carmela and Nico lead a comfortable life in a nice house in the suburbs with their little girl, Berta, their dog, Laika and Olivia, the young immigrant Ecuadorian home help. They have all settled into a cosy daily routine of fixed habits, as day follows day in a peaceful, middle-class pattern in which nothing ever happens. Or does it?
    When Olivia arrives one morning to find blood stains at the entrance of the house, a trail of footprints through the snow leads her and Nico to a discovery that not only slams home the terrifying fragility of life as it shifts suddenly and unexpectedly, but also the simple fact that appearances can be deceptive. Sometimes, beneath the surface calm, there’s a huge storm brewing.
    So, the author takes us calmly, page by page, through the various aspects of each character, peeling away their masks as he goes, until by the end we are left with a stripped landscape revealing the tangled web of hidden stories that lurk beneath the apparent normality. All it takes is someone with a keen eye – someone like José Ovejero – looking through a random keyhole, to show that behind every door, at every moment … something always happens. 

THE HAPPY CITY  by Elvira Navarro; Translated by Rosalind Harvey

“I feel terrible. Although he doesn’t say it, I know he had been hoping the whole time that I would explain it all somehow; but I can’t explain it, because I don’t understand anything.” These disturbing words, almost a distillation of the entire text, close the novel The Happy City by Elvira Navarro, who featured in Granta’s The Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists issue in 2010.
The stories of Chi-Huei—a Chinese boy whose family has come to Spain in search of a better life—and his friend Sara—a girl strangely fascinated by a homeless man—comprise two separate yet complementary sections, presenting the reader with a detailed account of their life circumstances and the nuances of their perspectives: the genuine, as-yet untamed voices through which the book’s pre-adolescent protagonists negotiate the world around them, their initial astonishment finally turning to frustration as they gaze upon their dehumanized society.
A pre-teen’s first faltering steps towards sexuality, social pressures, the way polarized outlooks on life coexist at the core of the same family, those first experiences of disillusionment as we awaken into the adult world: these are some of the themes that Navarro lays out for her readers in order to reveal, with razor-sharp control, the constant duality that exists between the outward appearance of things and their inner reality. 

Punto y Coma 45 ya está disponible en la biblioteca  / Punto y Coma 45 is already available in the library

  En este número de Punto y Coma dedicamos nuestrra portada a la Sagrada Familia de Barcelona. Descubre con nosotros los detalles más representativos del interior de esta catedral. A continución puedes ver algunos otros temas que incluye este nuevo número:

The cover of this new issue of Punto y Coma is dedicate to Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Discover with us the most representative details of the interior of this cathedral. You can see below some of the other themes included in this new issue:

¿Y TÚ QUÉ OPINAS?: Transgénicos
SOCIEDAD: Vandana Shiva: activista medioambiental – audio
CULTURA: Museo a Cielo Abierto en San Miguel
CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA: Entrevista a Alberto L. Teixido, biólogo – audio
PORTADA: La Sagrada Familia
CINE: Noticias cine: Especial Sitges 2013
VIAJES: María Lionza, al fondo de la ciénaga – audio
LITERATURA: Entrevista a Juan Vicente Piqueras
POESÍA: Yo que tú, de Juan Vicente Piqueras
CANCIÓN: Como en la televisión, de Árbol de ojos
GRAMÁTICA: Los marcadores conversacionales en español IV
FRASES HECHAS Y EXPRESIONES TÍPICAS
Y mucho más…