Emilia Pardo Bazán

Vidal nació en 1894 en el gran puerto macedonio del Imperio otomano y vivió hasta 1984. El destino singular de Vidal lleva en sí el auge, el crepúsculo y la muerte de una cultura, la de los sefardíes; el tránsito de ciudad de un imperio al estado-nación; la complejidad de las relaciones modernas entre judíos y gentiles; entre Oriente y Occidente; en definitiva, nuestro siglo

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

Menos que uno es, en el sentido más amplio de la expresión, una magnífica autobiografía intelectual. Al lado de textos que son homenajes a su ciudad natal o a la memoria de sus padres, aparecen ensayos sobre poesía y poética. Sus análisis de la obra de escritores rusos como Ajmátova, Tsvietáieva y Mandelstam y de autores como Auden, Montale, Cavafis y Derek Walcott son explicaciones luminosas y absorbentes de la poesía del siglo XX. «Catástrofes en el aire», que aborda la historia y el futuro de la prosa rusa, es una exposición original y emocionante de la vida y la muerte de...

The lives of Rita Marley and her husband Bob Marley are intimately shared in this look at their youths, their marriage, and the music that has made them legends. Beginning with her youth in the Trench Town ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Rita narrates her early encounters with the Wailing Wailers and how her relationship with Bob developed and changed as he transformed from local musician to international icon. This memoir emphasizes Rita's own musicianship, first as part of Bob Marley's backing vocalists, the I-Threes, and later her career after his death carrying on the musical legacy he began.