Harald Edelstam, Héroe del humanismo, defensor de la vida

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,...

The Cuban-born author and intellectual offers an intensely personal, poignant biography of Caruca, his late wife of sixty-six years, in an illustrated portrait of a remarkable love. (Biography)

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.

La biografía definitiva del más controvertido de los cineastas. La tragedia y la polémica han marcado la vida de Roman Polanski. A principios de los 80, Polanski escribió unas memorias prematuras que ahora, treinta años después, ha decidido completar y matizar desde una perspectiva mucho más madura. Un libro nuevo en el que Polanski nos habla de la vida y de su vida, de los hechos que la han marcado y de las polémicas que lo han acorralado. Un libro único de uno de los últimos genios vivos. "La extraordinaria vida de Roman Polanski es una historia digna de ser filmada." Bernard...