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A finales del siglo XVIII, tres adolescentes alumnos de teología en Tubinga distribuyeron sus vocaciones: Hölderlin, la poesía; Schelling, la mitología y Hegel, la filosofía, que se sitúa en la cúspide de la pirámide de los saberes. Es la que, según otro poeta, Octavio Paz, se mete siempre donde no la llaman. Hegel se propuso unas musculosas tareas y las cumplió toda su vida: germanizar la Ilustración francesa, refundar el cristianismo y redactar la historia universal. Hegel fue una suerte de faraón del conocimiento, según lo vio Ortega y Gasset. Se valió de un lenguaje oscuro,...

The intimate story of two of the most famous, yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature—Jack Kerouac and his friend, traveling companion, and hero, Neal Cassady—this is a firsthand account of life among the Beat generation, written by the woman who was Cassady’s wife and Kerouac’s lover. Beginning with the early days of Kerouac and Cassady’s friendship, Carolyn Cassady’s riveting memoir narrates the explosive success of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s "Howl," the flowering of the Beat generation, and the social revolution of the 1960s that saw Kerouac and Cassady taken...

First published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes was destined to beget a whole new genre, the so-called picaresque novel. Its great popularity may be attributed largely to its daring autobiographical form, which allows the reader to observe the magnificent, conquering Spain of Charles the Fifth through the inner consciousness of a humble figure called Lazarus, whose name, perhaps, comes from the poor leper mentioned in the Gospels. The Lazarillo is the first literary expression of a feeling basic to the very existence of the Spanish people, especially since the fifteenth century: they were what...

These sincere, sometimes shocking, and always insightful essays finally strip Joaquín Sabina bare and disclose the man behind the legend. Without ignoring any details, this biography recounts the fame, music, drugs, sex, alcohol, politics, women, and loves of his life.

The renowned gay figure skater describes how he overcome such painful times as the deaths of his loved ones and his struggle with drugs and alcohol while presenting his experience with the universal determination to never quit. Reprint.