Secretos medievales

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...

Tomo IV de Argentina en la Colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea. Dirigido por Jorge Gelman y coordinado por Alejandro Cattaruzza. Entre 1930 y 1960 tuvieron lugar procesos decisivos para la Argentina. La crisis de un modelo económico centrado en la exportación alentó el crecimiento de un sector industrial cuya expansión tuvo efecto más allá de la economía: impactó en la sociedad y en la dinámica demográfica. Desde el punto de vista político, el fraude electoral ejecutado a gran escala en la segunda mitad de los años treinta provocó una crisis política que se...

This volume contains several oral accounts that were preserved from the Yoruba tradition that allows us to explore our roots. Their exchanges are steeped in cultural rituals, references, and principles that distinguishes them. In this book, the author looks at the meyi, one part of the te two categories comprised of the Ifa.

Rosalía Sender Begué narra en primera persona sus vivencias como hija de exiliados españoles en Francia, las vicisitudes y la lucha por la supervivencia en medio de la epopeya que arrastró a miles de refugiados a un exilio que duraría décadas. Asimismo da cuenta de las raíces de un firme compromiso político, de su militancia comunista en los años de lucha clandestina, de su empeño insobornable por restituir las libertades, acabar con la dictadura y construir un estado democrático y plural. Son las memorias de una luchadora antifranquista, hija de los que perdieron la Guerra Civil....

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...