Aguirre o la posteridad arbitraria

The definitive biography of Spain's enigmatic king, a riveting work of late-twentieth-century history. Paul Preston, the author of the definitive biography Franco, explores the political and personal mysteries of the Spanish monarch's life in Juan Carlos, a story of unprecedented sweep and exquisite detail. Handed over to the Franco regime as a young boy, Juan Carlos was raised according to authoritarian traditions designed to make him a cornerstone of the dictatorship. How then did he later emerge as an emphatic defender of the democracy that began to form after Franco's death? In his...

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

In July 2021, Roberto Calasso, editor, writer, intellectual, man of letters, essential figure of Italian and European culture, passed away. Jorge Herralde, accomplice editor and friend of many years, since the youthful meetings in Frankfurt in the seventies of the last century, pays tribute to him. This volume brings together a range of texts that approach him from different angles and draw a wide portrait of this fascinating character. The reader will also discover his own voice with his speech at the reception of the Formentor Prize, which was awarded to him in 2016.

Este libro es el resultado de una fascinación: la fascinación de Patricia Iriarte por la música, por la tradición popular y por la figura de la cantadora Sonia Bazanta Vides, a quien el mundo identifica con el sonoro nombre de Totó La Momposina. El alma guerrera de Totó está presente en cada página y los detalles son fascinantes. Su infancia, sus inicios, su conciencia temprana de ser una columna del folclor... y luego el viaje a Estocolmo, como parte de la comitiva que acompañó a Gabo a recibir el Premio Noboel, la atracción que los oyentes europeos sintieron por su presencia...