El Placer / Pleasure

Tras el fenómeno Frida, la biografía del camaleón de la música, ilustrada por María Hesse. No muestro lealtad a ningún estilo. Simplemente escogeré aquel que me permita transmitir lo que quiero en ese momento. David Bowie es mucho más que un cantante que vendió ciento treinta y seis millones de discos, mucho más que un artista que experimentó con multitud de estilos y definió la cultura pop. Como dijo su biógrafo David Buckley, «cambió más vidas que ninguna otra figura pública». Con su perturbador alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, y canciones como «Starman» o «Space Oddity»,...

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Contemporáneo de Balzac, Dickens y Dostoievski, testigo privilegiado de la invención de la fotografía, el teléfono, la bombilla eléctrica, los rayos X y el cinematógrafo, Julio Verne da forma a sus clásicos, mientras Darwin conforma su teoría evolucionista de las especies, Marx publica El Capital y Einstein da a conocer su teoría de la relatividad. Bajo la apariencia de una novela juvenil y de aventuras retrata el espíritu de su época: el hombre capaz de dar la vuelta al mundo en ochenta días, de realizar un viaje de 20.000 leguas por debajo del mar, de llegar al centro de la...

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...

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