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Tras luchar en el bando republicano durante la Guerra Civil española, Alfonso Maeso Huerta se exilia en Francia. Con el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, muchos españoles se unen a las filas francesas; pero el avance nazi tira por tierra la lucha antifascista y supone la captura de un sinnúmero de prisioneros cuyo destino final son los campos de exterminio. Maeso vivirá años terribles en Mauthausen. Este libro supone un homenaje a sus compañeros en la desgracia y la catarsis de unos recuerdos que le han acompañado toda la vida. Hombres enfermos que suben ciento ochenta y seis...

La mayor parte de este libro está dedicado al análisis de cómo es un “nso nganga”, cuáles son sus características y cómo está organizado. Por último, se procede al análisis de dos “nsó-nganga” concretos (uno establecido en La Ha­bana y el otro en Madrid). En este libro se hace un estudio del carácter sobre­natural que el ngangulero otorga a la naturaleza y se hace una clasificación y descripción de los “kuna-nkisi” o lugares de poder que cumplen la función de “templos naturales”. Del gran “templo natural” se pasa luego al estudio del “muna-nso” o ca­sa ...

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...