Gabriela Chalupská Orden de los libros (cronológico)

La obra propone un recorrido por la historia hecho de pesadillas, terrores y amores de casi tres mil años, donde los sentimientos de repulsa y de conmovedora compasión se dan la mano, y el rechazo de la deformidad va acompañado de éxtasis decadentes ante las más seductoras violaciones de todos los canones clásicos. Entre demonios, locos, presencias perturbadoras y deformidades, se descubre una vena iconográfica extraordinariamente amplia.

'On Beauty' is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times.

In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses demanding reform of the Catholic Church to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, setting off a period of upheaval, war, civil war and violence we now know as the Reformation. In this age devastated by wars of religion, a young theology student adopts the cause of the heretics and the disinherited. Across the chessboard of Europe, from the German plains to the flourishing Dutch cities and down to Venice, the gateway to the East, our hero, a 'Survivor', a radical Protestant Anabaptist who goes under many names, and his enemy, a loyal papal spy and heretic hunter known mysteriously as "Q" play a game in which no moves are forbidden and the true size of the stakes remain hidden until the end. What begins as a personal struggle to reveal each other's identity becomes a mission that can only end in death.