Alejandro Sawa’s death and Ernesto Bark’s doubt: A supposed catalepsy that was fictionalized three times

Poco se sabe del verdadero velatorio de Alejandro Sawa; sin embargo, su figura y sus anécdotas han trascendido tanto que ya no solo su persona, sino su velatorio ha sido recreado hasta tres veces en la literatura: en El árbol de la ciencia de Pío Baroja, en Luces de Bohemia de Valle-Inclán y en Las máscaras del héroe de Juan Manuel de Prada. Las tres obras están íntimamente conectadas entre sí y traspasan el delgado límite entre realidad y ficción, de ahí que el comparatismo tenga mucho que decir en este análisis y en la aparición de ciertos personajes, como Ernesto Bark, el verdadero causante de sembrar la duda sobre la efectiva muerte del bohemio, quien sostuvo hasta el final de su vida que su amigo se suicidóAlejandro Sawa´s death is not known with details. However, bohemian life and many Sawa´s adventures are so attractive that not only his life, but also his death has been told by our best authors. His funeral wake has been recreated three times in Literature: The Tree of Science of Pio Baroja, Bohemian Lights of Valle-Inclán and The Masks of Hero of Juan Manuel de Prada. These works are intimately connected to each other and cross the boundary between reality and fiction. In this comparative study we want to discover what is true and what is false and explain why some characters appear in books, such as Ernesto Bark, who said not only that Sawa hadn´t died and it was a catalepsy case, but also that Sawa commited suicid

A procedure for computing the log canonical threshold of a binomial ideal

Producción CientíficaWe present a procedure for computing the log-canonical threshold of an arbitrary ideal generated by binomials and monomials. The computation of the log canonical threshold is reduced to the problem of computing the minimum of a function, which is defined in terms of the generators of the ideal. The minimum of this function is attained at some ray of a fan which only depends on the exponents of the monomials appearing in the generators of the idealMinisterio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MTM2012-35849 / MTM2015-68524-P

Entrevista con José Ignacio Montes. Avatar BIM

[ES] Conocimos el trabajo del estudio AvatarBim en Diciembre de 2014, con ocasión del XII congreso APEGA celebrado en la Universidad Europea de MadridQuiñones Rodríguez, R.; Lloréns Corraliza, S. (2016). Entrevista con José Ignacio Montes. Avatar Bim. EGE Revista de Expresión Gráfica en la Edificación. 0(9):4-11. https://doi.org/10.4995/ege.2016.12594OJS4110

Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings.

Over the last decades, many efforts have been made to establish the Basque minority language as a normalized language in the Basque Country. Research has shown that language use, language proficiency and attitudes towards language are closely associated. Likewise, the benefit of interactive learning environments for improving language proficiency is well known. However, the effect of such environments on attitudes towards second languages (L2) has been less studied. This article presents a qualitative study that explores the extent to which the implementation of a particular dialogue-based classroom strategy, named Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLGs), may transform secondary students’ attitudes towards Basque (L2). The DLGs were carried out with 46 secondary education students in the Basque Country. After implementing DLGs, teachers’ interviews and students’ focus groups were conducted and analysed inductively. Results show that participants reported changes in students’ attitudes towards Basque and they related these changes to the dialogical space they experienced during the DLGs, since this created affordances for them to engage in meaningful discussions when speaking in Basque. Implications of the study are discussed

Embedded desingularization of toric varieties

We present a new method to achieve an embedded desingularization of a toric variety. Let $W$ be a regular toric variety defined by a fan $\Sigma$ and $X\subset W$ be a toric embedding. We construct a finite sequence of combinatorial blowing-ups such that the final strict transforms $X'\subset W'$ are regular and $X'$ has normal crossing with the exceptional divisor.Comment: Some comments have been corrected and references adde

Alejandro Sawa and San Peter´s successors Pio IX and Pio X, two popes who were admired by an anticlerical

Siempre se ha dicho que una de las facetas que caracteriza la producción de Alejandro Sawa es su anticlericalismo. Sin embargo, esto no significa un rechazo en su totalidad a los miembros del clero. Los investigadores no han dado demasiada importancia a un texto que escribió con dieciséis años alabando la institución del pontificado y a Pío IX, por considerarlo una simple influencia del seminario. Sin embargo, en sus crónicas de 1904 y 1907 simpatiza también con Pío X. Este estudio pretende justificar y encajar estas dos aportaciones dentro de la trayectoria sawiana para demostrar que no es una contradicción y que el objeto de crítica es un comportamiento igualmente rechazable en un seglar.It is said that Alejandro Sawa was anticlerical and it was shown in his books. However, he did not denigrate all priests. Researchers have not given importance to the first Sawa´s text, where the young writer spoke well about Holy Father Pio IX. Later, between 1904 and 1907, he wrote new chronicles in favor of Pio X. This research wants to demonstrate that not only those words are not a contradiction, but also Alejandro Sawa defends some popes and clerics´ behavior because of his criticism is against bad habits of all people.Alejandro Sawa. Pío IX. Pío X. Anticlericalismo. Pontificado. Luz-oscurida

Liberalismo, esperpento y anonimato en Los conserjes de san Felipe, de José Luis Alonso de Santos

José Luis Alonso de Santos wrote Los Conserjes De San Felipe (Cadiz 1812) in 2012. In that play we can see traditional Spanish elements that appear in Literature many times, such as liberalism, Lope de Vega´s literary resources, the word “intrahistoria”, whose creator was Unamuno, the word “esperpento”, that was defined by Valle-Inclan, or Goya´s opinion about the war. In this study, we connect all those elements and defend that two hundred years are not enough to 1812 Constitution, because its ideas are valid nowadays.: En la obra de teatro Los conserjes de San Felipe (Cádiz 1812), escrita por José Luis Alonso de Santos, se pueden apreciar elementos de larga tradición en las artes españolas, especialmente en aquello relativo a la adopción de una postura liberal frente a los acontecimientos, así como a la reforma del teatro de Lope de Vega, la intrahistoria definida por Unamuno, el esperpento de Valle-Inclán o la opinión de Goya sobre lo bélico. Los doscientos años que separan la promulgación de la Constitución de 1812 y el texto dramático no hacen perder la vigencia a aquella