Nova Hispania

In this harrowing and hilarious memoir, Jennette McCurdy, star of the television series iCarly and Sam & Cat, recounts her struggles as a child actress -- eating disorders, addictions and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother -- and how she regained control of her life. This life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she first auditioned for her to act. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star and Jennette would have done anything to make her mother happy. So she did what her mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five...

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

Maternidad imposible es un testimonio desgarrador y finalmente triunfante de la vergüenza y el servilismo que llevó a Irene Vilar a abortar quince veces en diecisiete años. Este oscuro viaje a través de heridas autoinfligidas, patrones compulsivos y herencias históricas, vuelve sobre las dificultades que tenemos con el aborto, la maternidad y el cuerpo, y reclama una necesaria discusión literaria, política, social y filosófica. Es esta una poderosa historia de pérdida y duelo que con valentía se adentra en la individualidad, la identidad, la responsabilidad familiar y, finalmente,...

«Adiós, voy a encontrarme conmigo mismo.» Como en Anatomía de la melancolía de Robert Burton, hay una biblioteca personal en este libro, en él desfilan maestros antiguos y modernos, visiones míticas, místicas y cabalísticas; sabidurías orientales y occidentales. En El testamento del Dragón aparecen aforismos, antiaforismos y metaforismos, citas propias y ajenas, opinionessociales, morales y ecológicas; herencias poéticas grecolatinas, hispánicas y europeas, fragmentos de presocráticos, discursos prestados y discursos propios. Como en el caso similar de Erasmo, quien diciendo...