El arte de aprender

La rueda de la vida es el legado espiritual de esta extraordinaria mujer que, al reconciliarnos con la muerte, nos enseñó a amar la vida. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross supo desde muy joven que su misión era aliviar el sufrimiento humano, y ese compromiso la llevó al cuidado de enfermos terminales. Mucho fue lo que aprendió de esta experiencia: vio que los niños dejaban este mundo confiados y serenos; observó que algunos adultos partían sintiéndose liberados, mientras que otros se aferraban a la vida porque aún les quedaba una tarea que concluir. Pero todos hallaban consuelo en la...

Con singular penetración, el autor realiza un análisis minucioso y poco común sobre los aspectos histórico-culturales de las tendencias burguesas, y en algún sentido modernas, de una de las épocas más brillantes de la historia europea.

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Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...