Ciudadano del Mundo

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...

Un día de principios de otoño de 2002, la luz de una pequeña y recóndita librería de la plaza del Rialto de Sevilla se apagó, sin ruido ni apenas despedidas, definitivamente. Su fundadora había empezado a vender libros diez años antes en otras librerías, donde aprendió muchas cosas, además de su oficio. En la sucesión de vivencias que conforman estas deliciosas memorias parciales, Rubiano comparte con los lectores la insobornable vocación que le llevó a establecerse como librera en una esquina del mapa. Y lo hace con humor y con cándida sinceridad, porque salvo la satisfacción ...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

El proposito de este libro es recuperar a traves del analisis biografico el pensamiento de un hombre politico. Para el autor, la vida y la obra revolucionaria de Victor Paz Estenssoro es uno de los asuntos mas fascinantes que se pueden realizar. Precedida de un esbozo biografico, esta es una investigacion profunda y juiciosa sobre el personaje que definio la vida politica de Bolivia en los ultimos cien anos.