Reina del duende

Con prólogo de Raphael y fotografías inéditas, Frente al espejo recoge las memorias y confesiones de Terelu Campos. Terelu Campos. Frente al espejo es una conversación íntima entre amigos. Una confesión con el ánimo de agradecer a la vida. Un repaso en un momento crucial. Un poner por escrito lo que nunca se ha dicho. Una forma de sincerarse frente al espejo.

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

¿Era Manolita Chen una mujer o tras el barniz cosmético latía una pulsión varonil? ¿Alguien llegó a saber quién era realmente «la reina del teatro portátil»? ¿Sus vedettes eran tan picantes? ¿Por qué sobrevivió a los tijeretazos de la censura franquista? ¿Su marido, Chen Tse-Ping, mató accidentalmente a su primera esposa durante un número de lanzamiento de cuchillos? «¡Piernas, mujeres y cómicos para todos ustedes, simpático público!» Estas páginas se ocupan de los bulos y comentarios inciertos que se vertieron sobre la mítica vedette del Teatro Chino, siempre...

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...