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Cuarenta años después de que Barthes vaticinara que "la obra de Brecht sería cada vez más importante", cabe preguntarse si tal profecía se ha cumplido sin matices. La aparición de un copioso volumen con su teatro completo quizá sea buen momento para averiguarlo. Repasando sus treinta y tantas obras, advertimos algunas constantes de su teatro. Por ejemplo, el clásico "primum vivere, deinde philosophari", que él tradujo en La ópera... como "primero comer, después moralizar", ya figuraba en "La Biblia", una pieza breve escrita a los quince años, que aparece aquí por vez primera en español. Y han pervivido sin tambalearse secuencias y personajes inolvidables: esa eficacia teatral para transmitir el "terror" y la "miseria" en algunas escenas de "Terror y miseria..."; el grito desgarrador de Shen Te que ya torturaba a Job: "¿Por qué la maldad tiene su premio y por qué aguardan a los buenos tan duras penas?"; o Azdak, el cínico juez de El círculo, que acaso podría ser un alter ego de Brecht. En cambio ha envejecido mal el didactismo.

Beloved by millions, George S. Clason’s classic business book reveals the financial principles that hold the key to personal wealth. THE SUCCESS SECRETS OF THE ANCIENTS—AN ASSURED ROAD TO HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY Countless readers have been helped by the famous “Babylonian parables,” hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In language as simple as that found in the Bible, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. Acclaimed as a modern-day classic, this celebrated bestseller offers an understanding of—and a solution to—your personal financial problems that will guide you through a lifetime. This is the business book that holds the secrets to keeping your money—and making more. May they prove for you, as they have proven for millions of others, a sure key to gratifying financial progress.

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William Wilson," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Eleonora". Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems - "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," Ulalume," "Lenore," "The Bells," and more, plus his glorious prose poem "Silence - A Fable" and only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.