El bosque erotizado

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS THAT RECORD THE ASTOUNDING BEAUTY, SCALE, AND DIVERSITY OF NINETEEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. THIS IS A RARE TREAT TAKEN FROM A UNIQUE BIRD'S-EYE VIEW IN A HELICOPTER.

El trabajo historiográfico, cuando se realiza con rigurosidad e ingenio, carece siempre de punto final. Tal es el caso de este libro que se niega a concluir y que anticipa futuros descubrimientos. La labor de Juan Felipe Leal es de tal hondura, que insufla vida a la letra y hace de ella la volcadura lingüística de una realidad dinámica de la cual cada uno de los lectores somos parte constituyente. En Los Teatros-Salones, Leal se ocupa de la transición del siglo XIX al XX por medio del estudio de la programación de los “teatros de barrio” o “teatros de segunda clase” que...