María Claudia Falcone

La vida, vista como el intervalo del tiempo en el que los seres humanos tenemos la oportunidad de crecer, interactuar con otros y dejar huellas para la posteridad, está llena de interrogantes de diversa índole y que abarcan temas tan variados como el origen de la existencia y los caminos de la justicia divina, muchas veces velados a nuestro entendimiento. Jesús Salas Ramírez, historiador y escritor de Venezuela, sin llegar a responderlas, nos ofrece en un lenguaje diáfano, la secuencia de sucesos que han conformado los primeros años de su vida y han moldeado su personalidad, desde su...

This portrait traces the controversial life of the successful playwright, including her relationship with Dashiell Hammett and details her active role in ideological battles and her celebrated feuds with everyone from Tallulah Bankhead to Mary McCarthy.

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...

Una lectura absolutamente imprescindible para interpretar la historia reciente de Chile sin anteojeras.