Universo de esperanza, lucha por la vida

Babel, Bulgákov, Mandelshtam, Platónov o Gorki son sólo algunos de los dos mil escritores rusos que desaparecieron durante los años del terror en las grandes purgas promovidas por Stalin. Una persecución que se prolongó más allá de sus muertes, puesto que sus biografías fueron falsificadas y sus manuscritos inéditos escamoteados, lo que dejó al país sin referentes intelectuales ajenos al stalinismo. Vitali Shentalinski aprovechó la apertura de la perestroika para urdir un plan que hasta ese momento era descabellado: enfrentarse al Partido y a la administración soviética para...

Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search of that identity that was already beginning to glimpse with the discovery of blackness. Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal make up the polyhedral scene of the vital transformation of Maryse, who walks through the revolutionary circles of African socialism and surrenders to the fever of...

"Todos te quieren cuando está muerto" es un colosal fresco de entrevistas con algunas de las más grandes celebridades de la música y el show business que el escritor, divulgador y crítico musical Neil Strauss ha recopilado durante años. De entre los más de 100 famosos entrevistados en el libro destacan: Madonna, Johnny Cash, Britney Spears, Ben Stiller, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, PJ Harvey, Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Brian Wilson, The Who, Oasis, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Marilyn Manson, Patti Smith, Courtney Love, Orlando Bloom,...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...