El Genio Pródigo

Una autobiografía personal, literaria y política que es, a la vez, reflejo de los últimos cincuenta años de la Argentina.

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...

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...

Creer es la fascinante historia de Diego Simeone contada por él mismo. El prestigioso entrenador revela todos sus secretos como líder de grupos y como protagonista de la elite del fútbol mundial. El Cholo desmitifica y confiesa, sin vacilaciones. Transmite con alta intensidad cómo vive el fútbol y la vida. Porque cree que su motor es la superación permanente, que las dificultades son la mejor escuela, que se le debe dar al día a día el valor extraordinario que tiene y que todas las luchas empiezan en el primer minuto. El autor ama la adrenalina. Le encantan las escenas épicas. Sabe...