El arte del insulto / The art of the insult

QUEVEDO CONTRA QUEVEDO es un estudio, a la vez ameno y rigurosamente erudito, acerca de la vida y la obra de un gran creador, poeta, novelista, político, y excéntrico ,del glorioso Siglo de Oro, Francisco de Quevedo. Su psicología, extremadamente compleja, oculta en parte su verdadera personalidad. Quizá fue un falso tímido resuelto a atacar sin piedad, contra todo y contra todos , incluso contra sí mismo. Sus crueles críticas al gobierno, incluso al Rey, destruyeron su carrera política y lo llevaron a la cárcel. Su brillante ingenio y su vasta actividad creativa hacen de Quevedo un...

Mark Twain y Ambrose Bierce son, debajo de su multicolor vestido de bufón, agrios moralistas que observan con apesadumbrada lucidez el carácter demente de su país y de sus compatriotas. Te presentamos un libro de aforismos que te harán reflexionar y sonreír de la mano de los más grandes personajes de la literatura y la filosofía. Con el humor como premisa e hilo conductor, esta colección recoge aforismos de grandes maestros de la literatura y el pensamiento: la reflexión humanista de Montaigne y Erasmo; el ingenio ilustrado de Voltaire y la lucidez de Laurence Sterne; la mirada...

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a...

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