Mindf*ck

Ramon es una novela escrita por Dominique Fernandez, doctor en letras y miembro de la Academia Francesa. La obra, ganadora del premio"France Télévisions", es una búsqueda biográfica que entrelaza historia literaria, política e íntima de Ramon Fernandez, uno de los intelectuales más importantes de su época, de origen francés y mexicano.

"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...

Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle. Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's...

Como si de cumplir con el conocido dicho catalán Roda el món i torna al Born se tratara, después de años fuera de su ciudad natal, Manuel Valls vuelve a Barcelona, su casa, donde vivió parte de su niñez y de su juventud. Una ciudad de la que nunca ha estado desvinculado, donde conserva familia, amigos y referencias sentimentales y culturales, y a la que ahora brinda toda la intensa y brillante experiencia política desarrollada en Francia. Desde sus inicios, muy joven, en el Partido Socialista Francés de la mano de Michel Rocard hasta su nombramiento como primer ministro, pasando por...