Háblame a los ojos

Una mañana de enero de 1941, con 71 años de edad, el artista francés Henri Matisse, aclamado competidor de Pablo Picasso, yace en la cama de un hospital preparándose para morir. Y sucede algo inesperado. La operación lo deja demasiado débil para salir de la cama, pero le permite trabajar de otro modo. Inventa así un modo de hacer arte, armado de papel de color y tijeras, iniciando una segunda vida artística que perdurará entre la mejor obra de uno de los principales artistas del siglo XX. Este libro constituye una aproximación a esa asombrosa explosión de creatividad que se produce ...

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.

En esta obra encontrará ocho historias de la vida real, donde se plasman los sentimientos, el sufrimiento, las penurias y las calamidades que viven un inmigrante ilegal en Estados Unidos. También resalta los valores de las familias mexicanas, el éxito y todo lo que tuvieron que hacer para alcanzar el llamado "sueño americano".

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an extraordinary quantity of legend and speculation surround his reputation. This biography, the first in English in over twenty years and the first fully documented one in over a century, makes full use of the newest material in contemporary studies as well as of older scholarship. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make...