Diario de un emigrante clandestino

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

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...

El nombre de Martha Argerich está asociado con los momentos cumbre de la pianística de dos siglos. Inquieta, talentosa, rebelde, esta gran intérprete ha llevado una vida acorde a alguien que no se ata a convención alguna a la hora de tocar el piano, enfrentar su carrera y elegir qué rumbos deben tomar sus afectos.

Este relato estremecedor es un testimonio historiográfico acerca de Teresa Andrés, una persona aún poco conocida, pero cuya trayectoria personal y profesional representa las esperanzas de progreso y renovación cultural que fueron brutalmente truncadas por la Guerra Civil y el exilio. Nacida en 1907, inició su actividad en el ámbito bibliotecario adquiriendo un fuerte compromiso por la democratización de la cultura. Declarada la Guerra Civil, fue responsable de la sección de bibliotecas de Cultura Popular, e intervino en la creación de bibliotecas en hospitales, batallones y hogares...