María Claudia Falcone

Lucía Melgar y Gabriela Mora han construido en este libro mucho más que un conjunto de voces en torno a Elena Garro. Las 14 experiencias, sean éstas de lectura, revisión histórica o narración de uno o varios encuentros con la autora de Los recuerdos del porvenir, son una paradoja. El equilibrio se da en la lectura, en el tercero que lee, que reinterpreta e incluso que lucha con la propia imagen que de Elena se haya construido. No es un libro que ensalsa ni denosta; tampoco juzga o aprueba. Es, en su conjunto una pieza polifónica que al igual que se complementa, se contradice. Quizá...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

Annotation Bill Clinton ser , sin duda alguna, uno de los personajes pol ticos m s pol mico y complejo de todos los tiempos, en su pa s. El cuadrag simo segundo presidente de los Estados Unidos de Am rica lider un per odo de bonanza econ mica, algo que en muchos sentidos facilit su gesti n. Tambi n se le reconocen logros tan importantes como la entrada de los pa ses del este de Europa en la OTAN, y la incorporaci n de la herm tica China en la Organizaci n Mundial del Comercio. Pero su figura trascender , adem s, por los escandalosos incidentes de faldas que lo vincularon a la becaria M nica...

Great men were once children, and perhaps, they even desired to have everything we now have at arm's reach. Some were born into poverty; others were orphaned and cared for by relatives or institutions. Extreme scarcity or social turmoil was often a part of their daily lives. However, these greats allowed themselves to envision a better future and follow their dreams. They worked incessantly to make their visions a reality. As a result, they've gifted humanity with proof that dreams do come true.