JOVELLANOS: VIDA Y PENSAMIENTO

„The enamel pictures of the Hungarian Saint Crown” mark the pick of the successful painter’s carrier of Éva Nyáry. Her uncle, Ernest Nyáry,Archbishop of Baghdad inspired the paintings of equal size, representing the pictures decorating the crown of our first king, Saint Stephan’s, presented with national and international recognition to the interested public. The artist published the birth of the art pieces and the spirit and history of the crown in a work published with the similar title in 2002. She took the pen in 2006 and composed her following book entitled The Ancient...

Silvia Cherem reconstruye una historia sin paralelos que permite al lector adentrarse en la filosofía social de Bimbo, conocer los secretos del éxito y atestiguar los problemas que enfrentaron sus fundadores derivados de la severa competencia, de las rupturas en el equipo, los vaivenes sexenales y el paso de las estafeta a las nuevas generaciones.

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

"Cultiver les plaisirs de mes sens fut, dans toute ma vie, ma principale affaire ; je n’en ai jamais eu de plus importante." Il n’a pas fallu longtemps, un siècle tout au plus, pour que Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) prenne sa place au Panthéon des mythes. Fils d’une modeste famille de comédiens, il est devenu, à la faveur de ses Mémoires, Histoire de ma vie, une figure de référence dans l’art de la séduction. Mais qu’était-il vraiment ? Un agent secret, un aventurier cosmopolite, escroc à ses heures ? Pour aborder Casanova, il faut se garder d’appliquer à son histoire...