Háblame a los ojos

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

"El tren hizo una parada en una estación sin pueblo, y poco después pasó frente a la única finca bananera del camino que tenía el nombre escrito en el portal: Macondo. Esta palabra me había llamado la atención desde los primeros viajes con el abuelo, pero sólo de adulto descubrí que me gustaba su resonancia poética. Nunca se lo escuché a nadie ni me pregunté siquiera qué significaba." Compendio y recreación de un tiempo crucial para García Márquez, Vivir para contarla ofrece el recuento de sus años de infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundaría el imaginario que...

Aunque esta obra no es exactamente una biografía del estelar Orestes Kindelán, nos permite acercarnos a la vida y el quehacer de este pelotero cubano, a través de la narración, contrastada con referencias proporcionadas por personas cercanas en el aspecto afectivo, deportivo, así como las propias declaraciones del protagonista. El lector podrá calibrar la dimensión humana y deportiva de Orestes Kindelán, gracias a la palabra de familiares, amigos, compañeros del deporte, aficionados, admiradores de muy diversas edades y sectores sociales, incluyendo personalidades de la cultura, la...

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí; he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life after the defeat of the Spanish and who called the Congress of Panama in hopes of making real his dream of uniting all the South American...