Repairman Jack

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.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) fue un filologo del siglo XX, profesor de anglosajon y literatura inglesa en Oxford, erudito en lenguas, mitos, leyendas y textos antiguos, creador de libros magistrales y, ademas, un buen ilustrador. Su obra maxima,"

Without the determination, magnetism, vision, good manners, respectable clothes, and financial security of Brian Epstein, no one would ever have heard of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. In Liverpool, in December 1961, Brian Epstein met the Beatles in his small office and signed a management deal. The rest may be history, but it’s a history that Epstein created, along with a blueprint for all pop groups since. Out of the public eye, Epstein was flamboyant and charismatic. He drank, gambled compulsively, and took drugs to excess. But people remember his wit, charm, and capacity to inspire...

Salvador Novo (1904-1974) es uno de los escritores más complejos y contradictorios del siglo XX en el mundo de habla hispana. Prosista admirable, gran cronista, poeta de obra breve y perdurable, director de teatro y dramaturgo, experto en gastronomía, es, entre otras cosas, uno de los testigos principales del auge de la burguesía mexicana luego del gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas. Esta brillante crónica biográfica de Novo escrita por Carlos Monsiváis permite a los lectores un acercamiento muy documentado a una figura excepcional en su valentía personal y literaria y en su transformación ...