El enigma inaugural

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...

"Ha tenido una vida aventurera, difícil y, como muchos pintores, es un hombre sólidamente asentado sobre la tierra firme, con raícesen las cosas y unos sentidos ávidos de realidad. El mundo que ha creado con sus pinceles, sin embargo, es todo imaginación, sensibilidad, poesía...". Mario Vargas Llosa Gerardo Chávez es una leyenda en la historia de la plástica peruana y latinoamericana. Sin embargo, pocos son los que conocen la historia del niño que a los nueve años comenzó a ganarse la vida y, a los once, ya se había trazado una meta: ser un artista. Escritascon transparencia y...

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) fue tal vez el mas influyente teorico independiente que emerge de la "transformacion estructuralista" posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y abre el campo teorico al posmodernismo. Mas que sus contemporaneos Roland Barthes y Ja