Friedrich Nietzsche. La máscara de Dionisos

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

El Diccionario biográfico (vol. IV) ofrece a lo largo de más de 1.600 voces, información objetiva acerca de los personajes, sus carreras y los acontecimientos en los que tomaron parte, evitando los debates historiográficos propios de otro tipo de obras.

Recordar es volver a vivir, y aunque siempre recordamos lo bueno, las cosas tristes y aquello que sufrimos lo dejamos a un lado, ya cargamos esa cruz del dolor, y lo que nos queda de vida es saludable recordar las cosas bellas del pasado que nos hicieron feliz, y por ese motivo narro lo que aconteci? durante mi vida en Cuba republicana, mis recuerdos abarcan a toda la familia, y tambi?n a todo cubano que vivi? mi ?poca en Cuba republicana. Encontrar?n en este libro pasajes de mi vida cuando ni?o y juventud, sucesos que jam's olvidar? y que sello con el cu?o de la verdad.

People remain fascinated by her love affairs, her thirty-year relationship with the detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett, and her visits to Spain during its civil war and to Russia during World War II."--BOOK JACKET.