Una obra de costumbres, amor y honor. Los protagonistas viven como personajes dentro de otros, huyendo de su pasado más reciente.
Una comedia tardía en la producción de Lope. En ella vemos a Don Juan defender el honor de las mujeres hasta el final. Como siempre, el criado es el que te hace reír. En este caso es Martín, el cual sufre cierto percance con un Mastín... Toda la obra dentro de una sola casa, escondiéndose mútuamente, lo cual da una fuerza escénica enorme. Algunos versos son impagables, como los que regala Leonarda a su padre para defender su libertad de alma y cuerpo.
Amoríos y requiebros en la fiesta de Santiago el Verde. Las escenas de los sastres fingidos son tremendas.
Esta es una obra magistral. Quizás la que más me ha gustado de Lope hasta la fecha. Una lección de libertad.
Una obra sencilla y llena de sabiduría. Deliciosa y cándida. Perfecta para una mañana de domingo.
Excelente obra. Y sencilla, lo cual la hace perfecta para una representación casera. Un nivel de perfección similar al del Perro del Hortelano.
De esta obra sorprende mucho que online se encuentra en cinco actos y sin embargo en mi libro Aguilar del 1946 solo hay tres. Federico Carlos Sáinz de Robles, el encargado de las notas en mi edición, afirma que la versión en cinco actos es una refundición de Cándido María Trigueros. Por eso sorprende que en la Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes haya cuatro entradas pero todas para la versión refundida, la cual a primera vista es casi totalmente diferente. Yo he leído la supuestamente original. Me resulta increíble que esta fuera la obra númuero 1500 del autor. Escribir tantas obras es simplemente una bestialidad. Por otro lado, la obra en sí es muy hermosa pero no de las mejores. Y el final es demasiado precipitado. A veces con Lope esto es una constante, pero en esta obra todo se resuelve en demasiado poco tiempo.
Muy buena obra de amoríos y requiebros. Leyéndola me entretuve en ir apuntando todas las conexiones relevantes entre los personajes y me di cuenta de la enorme cohesión que esconde la dramaturgia. Hay doce personajes, y el número (aproximado) de conexiones de cada uno es: Belisa=9, Lisardo=8, Teodora=7, Prudencio=7, Marcela=6, Beltrán=6, Riselo=6, Octavio=6, Prudencio=5, Leonor=4, Salucio=3 y Gerardo=3. Los últimos tres son criados y aun así tienen mucha conectividad. Además de esta cohesión hay muchas simetrías interesantes, como la de Lisardo-Belisa, Riselo-Teodora y Beltrán-Leonor. Quizás no es la mejor obra de Lope, pero un análisis superficial ya revela una gran maestría.
A must read of the Science Fiction genre. I enjoyed it very much. I became fascinated with the role of Teela Brown, even though the luck theory is a fallacy. But it is interesting how you can follow such a lucky girl and interpret all events under her luck. I became a bit disappointed near the end, though. I think the book deserved a much better end, since all the previous action was nearly perfect.
This is a masterpiece I have always heard of but never read. I decided to follow each proposition with paper, compass and a not marked ruler. You need calm in order to follow the last propositions as they accumulate as the book advances. But it is worth trying. After some time I will try with book II.
Al principio me ha costado entrar, pero acabas entrando del todo, y entonces el dolor te deja clavado. Terrible, cruel y a la vez con un lirismo que espanta de lo bueno que es. En vida de Lope solo se representó una vez.
Por algún motivo me gustan especialmente las obras de Lope ambientadas en Italia. Esta es enormemente luminosa. El personaje de Fenisa es una delicia. Muy entretenida, perfecta para representar hoy día.
Excelente obra llena de misterio. La temperatura sube mucho al principio y luego desciende hasta una frialdad extrema. Escalofríos me dieron al acabarla.
This is not a book for everyone. You need to know more than a bit from Einstein's theories of relativity (GR and SR) and from Gödel's famous theorems. The author tries to explain a little bit about them but is not enough for the inexpert reader. However, you can read chunks from it and enjoy the anecdotes from these two geniuses of mathematics and physics. Furthermore, the required philosophical level is high as well, as Gödel was even more a philosopher than a mathematician (according to the author). However, if you are able to understand it (and I recognize that the parts from Gödel theorems was very hard to me) you can enjoy this book. First, it is a romantic attempt to give justice to the figure of Gödel in the fields of philosophy and physics. Second, it comes as a great surprise (to me) that these two brilliant minds were so close to each other. I like how they diverged from mainstream research, pursuing very high goals, how they denied quantum interpretations and how they wanted to deeply understand the world. We all have to thank Palle Yourgrau for writing this, for it is thanks to people like him that important facts are not flushed by the toilet of time. Not an easy book. I would add it is sad in many respects, but I really enjoyed it. As for the title, this book fell in my hands because of my research on the topic of time. But time is not the only main topic of it. However, it is of relevance, since Gödel contributed with a very important result concerning General Relativity. At some extreme rotating universes, there can be closed time-like curves, which allow a time travel, but which means in fact that time as we understand it is not compatible with this. Well, this is an important result. However, my point of view is that it tells more for the probable fail of General Relativity at extreme conditions than for the real universe and time. However, this is still an open topic and the ideas of Gödel should be seriously taken into account. Sadly, mainstream colleagues of his time and from current days do not seem to be opened to his ideas. But I prefer to trust a genius like Gödel than some mainstream charlatans.
Aquest llibre me'l va regalar fa un any la Laia Haurie, doctora en Química, per un amic invisible. I a la fi vaig decidir llegir-ho. Ho he fet mentre dinava, un capítol (un article) cada dia. Ho he trobat molt bo, brillant i divertit. Hi ha articles com el de la taula periòdica que m'han fet plorar de riure. Altres, com el de rentar les camises a l'Índia, m'ha fet pensar. M'ha semblat una bona obra de divulgació amb bon humor i metàfores interessants. Potser m'ha sobrat el discurs sobre la natura i la química, article 22, perquè sembla que era confús i dubtós, però tota la resta està molt bé. Creo que hay versión en castellano, aunque aún no imagino cómo se ha podido traducir el examen sobre la tabla periódica... Ambas versiones se pueden conseguir en algunas librerías o bien solicitándolo al autor (cmans@ub.edu).
Se me acaban los adjetivos para describir el asombro que me producen las obras de Lope de Vega. Esta obra es asombrosa, una auténtico canto al amor. Leyéndola me he llenado de risas, lágrimas, impotencia y dolor. También me ha sorprendido la crudeza con la que Lope habla de las matanzas de toros en Medina. La sensibilidad y el lirismo que tiene para el amor y para la flor más delicada y la sequedad con la que describe unas fiestas tan sanguinarias. Ya sé que en su época no era corriente mostrar compasión con los toros, pero Lope no era alguien común y realmente me esperaba una descripción de otro calado. De todas formas la obra es apabullante y llena de una sensibilidad que muchos sensibles quisieran. De haber leído esta obra en mi adolescencia habría combustionado de forma instantánea.
Obra excepcional, con una fuerza escénica fuera de lo normal. Imagino la enorme fuerza que debe desprender la pintura en casa del pintor. Las escenas con los campesinos durmiendo en la calle son memorables. Supongo que hay la tentación de ver una moral que haga al Comendador el malo y a Peribáñez el bueno, pero al menos bajo mi punto de vista no está tan claro. Desde luego, el Comendador tiene amor puro, aunque métodos torpes y poco nobles, pero Peribáñez destila un amor mucho más mediocre, mediocre como él mismo y su condición. Lo que pasa es que habla bajo el increíble verso de Lope de Vega y eso le quita la mediocridad a cualquiera. Basta leer justo al principio las preciosas declaraciones de amor que se hacen los novios para constatarlo. El final me parece muy abrupto desde el punto de vista del Comendador.
This is a very nice introductory book to the topic of time. It is very well explained and it's not boring, except during the discussions of time travels. I usually get bored when the subject becomes too speculative. At the beginning I didn't know that the author was aware of the work by Huw Price. The objections of Price concerning double standard approaches deserves much more attention. The author simply mentions it very briefly, and then proceeds to discuss other speculative things. He says that Price has attacked the physicists. Well, this is unfair. He reasoned some arguments againsts some theories. This is not an attack, and it is not a good approach to be such a corporatist. The author only mentions the very serious reasoning of Price and spends pages and pages on extremely speculative aspects. By the way, he says that parallel universes are an escape for Price objections, but this is not enough. I expected more in this aspect. It is worth mentioning that Price says in his book of the Archimedes point that Hawking never replied to him. Frankly, Price's is still the best book I have read on the topic of time arrow and similar. Paul Davies does not talk on the initial entropy as the target problem for the arrow of time, which is pretty incredible. However, I consider it as a very nice book, very entertaining and engaging. One point to Davies over Price is that Davies discuss the case of kaons! In order to understand the examples from the quantum chapter you may go for an introduction to double slit experiments first. Otherwise it can be hard to follow.
Es una obra muy divertida. Esta es de las que el Rey es presentado como un auténtico héroe. Lope parece tener una visión muy bipolar sobre los reyes... Me gusta sobre todo la forma en que se odian los novios nada más verse. ¡Cuántas parejas habrán habido así!
I cannot recommend this book. I became extremely bored reading it. The title reads "Like Flatland, only more so". Well, this is far from being true. This text tries to be a sequel to the great classic Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott. This 1884 novel is a must for those of you who don't know it. And don't expect the movies based on it be neither faithful nor better. It is a brilliant, direct and short book, with scientific and political insight. However, Flatterland is a must-not. It is a boring, long and an only scientific oriented book (not to say that some topics are so speculative that cannot be called science yet). It tries to deal with female revolution but the narrative is very poor. One of the first things an author should learn is not to build god-like characters, i.e. protagonists which are perfect, emotionless and do not change through the course of the story. Here the Space Hopper is a detestable character, who does not display any feeling and consequently does not attract the reader at all. After a good start, with the story beginning at Flatland, Vikki is almost kidnapped by the I-know-everything stupid ball, leaving the whole family worried when he could have left a letter from the very beginning. Sometimes he is even very disgusting with Vikki in some replies. Vikki is too good to be true. She is kidnapped but after all she wants to learn all the time. She is the only one having some feelings, but even she is not interesting at all. At the end, when some interest is recovered, the book ends abruptly. So there is not an interesting story because, among other things, there is no story. An odyssey is not enough to build a novel. It needs a conflict at least! If I want to learn science I prefer to read a more serious book. If this is to be a novel, then I need to see conflicts as the gears of every decent novel or literature work. The author, Ian Stewart, is totally an amateur. Concerning more technical details, I would add some comments. First, I purchased the book thinking that the book was about dimensions. The author sometimes confuses dimensions with degrees of freedom, or sometimes completely forgets the topic of dimensions, which is sad. I expected a true sequel to the original, that is, exploring more spatial dimensions. The chapter with fractals is understandable, but there are a lot of things to explore when you jump from 3 to more than 3 spatial dimensions. What is the criterion for the topics covered in the book? It seems pretty random and not faithful to the title. Furthermore, the topics are not well explained. The author tries the enigmatic style of Lewis Carroll but only achieves confusion with no style. Some names are funny, this is the only fun you can get. The reviews included in the book make me think that they don't read the book but the first few chapters. Nature journal says it's "a superb sequel" or "entertaining", which is very far from being true. Make us a favour and let's not associate this poor text as the sequel of the great Flatland. It could be like Flatland, only much worse so. By the way, A²; comes from Abbott Abbott=A²!
Mucho podrían aprender los amantes hoy en día de esta obra tan buena. De Nuño y por supuesto de Macías. Ser el hombre perfecto para Clara, mujer perfecta a su vez para él, pero llegar tarde, ¡qué barrera tan aparentemente absurda y a la vez tan grande! A veces pienso que uno es todavía joven en tanto que puede sentir lo que siente un hombre como Macías. Un caballero virtuoso en todas las facetas que simplemente llega a deshora para ser desbancado por otro caballero mediocremente notable. Esta obra hará hervir tu sangre. Quizás estés de acuerdo conmigo en que podría haberse titulado con igual acierto "Castidad hasta matar".
Mucho se insiste en el paralelismo entre esta obra y La Estrella de Sevilla, pero eso poco importa a un lector no académico como yo. La Niña de Plata es una obra maravillosa. Con una resolución nunca vista en toda la literatura que conozco. El personaje de la Niña es un caramelo para cualquier actriz con un poco de ambición y buen gusto. Nuevamente descubro cómo Lope hace palidecer a cualquier dramaturgo contemporáneo, por bueno que este sea. Cuando algo tan bueno está tan bien dicho, lo que viene luego parece poca cosa. Todavía me quedan muchas obras de Lope por leer, pero ya puedo decir que ningún autor que conozca me ha dado tanto placer. Y eso que el teatro no es para leerlo, sino para darle vida. ¡Ojalá los grupos de teatro aficionados (y profesionales) rescataran estas joyas en vez de dar tanto bombo a mediocres actuales! Parece que Lope es como la Niña de Plata, una joya brillante que con el tiempo, si no se cuida, ennegrece, pero que guarda su tesoro para el que quiera desoxidarlo.
Original title: La Science et l'Hypothèse. This book, first published in 1902, is very special in a lot of ways. First, Poincaré itself. He was one of the best mathematicians of all times, and reading a text by such an incredible mind is always a big responsibility. As a reader, you need to give your best. I have studied some theorems from him in the past, like the one of eternal return, and the depth of his thinking is astonishing. However, this book is intended for the public reader and it is not as tough as one of his technical works. He proposes and suggests many relevant things in such a short space that you get the feeling of being shaked by a genius but without having solved anything at all. He leaves for the (future) reader the solutions. Of course, there are some parts that are a bit old-fashioned, or put in euphemistic words, of hystorical value. However, most of his analysis is still interesting and revolutionary in some way. What I liked most is the way he asks himself about deep concepts like number, magnitude, mass, force... without giving room for faith. Most of the physicist I know are complete believers. They do not lose time by thinking about such philosophical topics... But some laws are in fact definitions, like the F=ma. And some quantities, like mass, are a comfortable ways of expressing a relationship, not absolute parameters given by God. The whole book would be a cure for many scientists which behave like monks. It is impossible to make an overview of such a miscellaneous work. However, what is important is his attitude towards science. Unravelling hidden hypotheses is essential for the good of science. We need awoken minds like Poincaré. Today more than 110 years ago. In particular I love his analysis of probabilities, where you discover that its definition depends on itself! Is such a loose concept the most fundamental measurable quantity of quantum mechanics? Poincaré's book can be a source of incredible inspiration. Let me finish with a part that I think is very relevant today: "We may conceive of ordinary matter as either composed of atoms, whose internals movement escape us, our senses being able to estimate only the displacement of the whole; or we may imagine one of those subtle fluids, which under the name of ether or other names, have from all time played so important a role in physical theories. Often we go further, and regard the ether as the only primitive, or even as the only true matter. The more moderate consider ordinary matter to be condensed ether, and there is nothing startling in this conception; but others only reduce its importance still further, and see in matter nothing more than the geometrical locus of singularities in the ether. Lord Kelvin, for instance, holds what we call matter to be only the locus of those points at which the ether is animated by vortex motions. Riemann believes it to be locus of those points at which ether is constantly destroyed; to Wiechert or Larmor, it is the locus of the points at which the ether has undergone a kind of torsion of a very particular kind. [...] Does our ether actually exist? We know the origin of our belief in the ether. "
Leer esta obra es como leer un sueño. Hiperrealista y surrealista al mismo tiempo, es decir, con mucho sentido y con ninguno a la vez. Se contrasta el lirismo exacerbado de unos con el verso prosaico (si es que tal cosa tiene sentido) de otros. Uno cree estar en una obra lorquiana tipo El público por momentos. Las escenas en las estancias del rey, actos II y III, son una locura escénica. Puertas y más puertas que conectan una infinidad de salas donde suceden hechos completamente oníricos. Como en todo sueño, la unidad global va basculando hacia delante, acompañando a la acción. Aunque por supuesto existe un motivo principal. Tan horrible, quizás, que Lope decidió vestirlo con fantasía. Me sorprende la imagen del Rey Don Pedro en comparación con los reyes de otras obras citadas anteriormente. Este es más maduro. O más tardío... En cualquier caso se trata de un Rey que todavía puede demostrar un valor real, no como los que vemos ahora. Aunque parece que la sensibilidad más allá de las fronteras de su piel es algo de lo que han carecido y carecen casi todos. Hay escenas memorables, como la de las broncas o la de Don Tello pasando de sala en sala. La Sombra es, cómo no, la que da relieve al conjunto.
Quizás no es el argumento más elaborado de Lope, pero sin duda es una de sus obras más líricas. La calidad del verso llega a cotas insospechadas. Y el clímax, en el que el título cobra sentido, es realmente hermoso. Un título solo para valientes, para personas que se lanzan a sentir de verdad.
De momento es una de las mejores que he leído de Lope. Es redonda en todos los sentidos. Y el final... ¡qué final! Si estás buscando una obra para representar con no muchos personajes y que sea efectiva, esta puede ser una buena candidata.
Every movie is different, and so is the novel. It is an extremely suggestive and intriguing book where we can find some chapters of enormous beauty and other of extreme crudity. Read this novel and think about the experiments we perform on our closest brothers. (Do not continue reading if you do not want the novel to be spoiled). I think the author is trying to suggest that Soror is, in fact, the Earth, just as the 1968 film. Not only there are the same species, the same atmosphere, etc but the star Betelgeuse is red and big, exactly as the Sun is supposed to be when it will begin to be run out of fuel. And there is a moon, even though is smaller. Perhaps due to asteroid collisions? The continents are different, but after thousands of years the continental drift may have played its part. I think the author is suggesting that the travel to Soror is in fact a travel to the distant future Earth, while the trip back to Earth brings them to a nearer future. By the way, I find the role of the professor Antelle very intriguing, since there is no explanation for his transformation. I like the love between Ulysse and Nova. They cannot communicate by words by they fall in love. Love, which needs no reason or science. Maybe this is what makes professor Antelle to act as he does. The book is full of hints to open ends and winks to restless readers.
Una obra muy enigmática llena de detalles exquisitos y momentos muy oscuros. El primer acto parece una pequeña obra separada, casi un preludio, y los dos restantes son el verdadero núcleo de la obra. No obstante el conjunto es extremadamente entretenido. El personaje de Raquel, bajo mi punto de vista, no tiene parangón en toda la literatura que conozco. Aparece tan poco pero con tanta fuerza... La evolución es trágica en el gran sentido de la palabra. El amor del rey está expresado en toda su entraña, lo cual resalta enormemente en un fondo costumbrista y artificial. Francamente me parece increíble (en el buen sentido) que Lope de Vega se atreviera a poner en boca de un rey semejantes palabras y acciones. Es, en resumen, una obra desconcertante. Una joya para descubrir por ti mismo.
As I am a physicist involved in the topic of time, I cannot put myself under the perspective of a non-physicist reader, which is the target of this book. But there is a main issue that is important even for the average reader: the title is misleading because it is not a history of time. The topic of time is poorly covered. This is a book about cosmology, and as such, it is quite out-of-date, since very significant changes have occurred in the last 15 years. (For example, the accelerated expansion of the universe, which is not mentioned at least in my 2011 edition). If you are looking for an excellent book on the arrows of time I recommend you Time's Arrow and the Archimedes' Point by Huw Price. It is a bit tough but probably the best text on the arrow of time that I know of. For the history of time measurement there is an amazing book entitled Time in History by G.J. Whitrow, which I strongly recommend.
This is a wonderful book that everyone should read in order to learn incredible things about our green brothers and how important they are.
Deliciosa obra en la que Pelayo te hará reír de lo lindo, Sancho te hará sentir y Elvira llorar.
Esta es la segunda parte de Los Tellos de Meneses. A mi parecer es mucho mejor que la primera. Tiene más ritmo, humor y profundidad dramática. El conjunto de las dos obras es realmente bueno. Me encantaría ver en escena los cambios constantes de vestuario...
This is a very interesting book if you are an adult trying to learn to swim well. First, it is important to mention that it only discuss front crawl stroke. Maybe some things are applicable to backstroke, but for breast and fly strokes this book is not of great help. The main point is that remarks the importance of the efficiency when you swim. And in order to increase this efficiency we learn that arms and foot are not so important as power sources. Instead, a good equilibrium and a hip rotating-stroke is more effective. The author discusses very common mistakes among amateur swimmers trying to improve the efficiency of swimming by a reduction of drag instead of by enhancing only endurance or strength. I really enjoyed, even though I got lost in many descriptions of the exercices. It is very difficult to explain a swimming exercise with words! But I got the videos and all makes sense now.
Esta obra es magnífica. Te transporta a un pasado rural en el que Tello el Viejo adolece de una curiosa dualidad económica. Elvira desciende de la nobleza para ponerse a servir en un acto de lo más valiente. Lope no se dedica a mostrar personajes de alto linaje enfermos de hemofilia, sino que en su caso lo real es real, incluso dentro de lo ficticio. El personaje de Tello joven no me acaba de gustar. Está a la altura de los demás cortesanos.
This is probably the best book I've ever read, together with The Call of the Wild, by the same author. I am sick of the Disney-like approach to other animals that act and think as if they were humans. I am also sick of usual people, even some philosophers, who consider that they are almost automata. Some months ago I read The Wolf by Joseph Smith and he showed to be completely unable to put himself under the skin of a wolf or other creatures. On the other hand, The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands is an interesting book that can complement White Fang in many ways. But the two wolf-related works by London are really superior. He is able to transmit you the mind and the spirit of other animals without humanizing and without dehumanizing them. These are two superb and symmetrical stories that will spring upon you!
Una historia de amor cruzada entre Nise y Nuño, o de cómo la nobleza crece mejor en el campo...
Magnífica obra donde se muestra cómo el amor enciende la luz del ingenio, aunque a muchos parece que se la apague. Estar dotado, ya sea de lucidez o de dote, es algo que no es constante. En cualquier caso, Lope demuestra una vez más haber amado mucho.
Si ya conoces las andaduras de Sancho Panza es hora de ver en acción a Doña Sancha, una heroína increíblemente moderna. Es muy interesante leer a Lope en un castellano que ya para él era (quizás irónicamente) antiguo.
Maravillosa obra filosófica en lo amoroso y amorosa en lo filosófico. Es inevitable pensar en la fiel película que hizo Pilar Miró. El final, como casi siempre en Lope, me parece algo precipitado. Pero el lirismo vuela a alturas increíbles.
Aunque es archifamosa nunca antes la había leído, y no me ha decepcionado. Me ha parecido muy contemporánea, al menos en potencia, pues los que hoy en día gobiernan nos están inflando las narices y pueden acabar como el Comendador. Me ha parecido que tiene cierta relación con Las Bacantes de Eurípides, más que nada por el linchamiento (por decirlo de forma suave) colectivo. También me ha parecido curioso que no se diga el tópico de "Fuenteovejuna, todos a una". Esto es como lo de "Tócala otra vez, Sam, en Casablanca...