Conversaciones con Antonio Tabucchi

Félix Luna nos regala un libro encantador: una suerte de autobiografía razonada. Sistematiza su vida y experiencias en siete grandes áreas, que presenta con un orden algo sorpresivo. La música está en primer lugar, y sólo después aparece la historia. Luego siguen el país, el trabajo, la formación, la familia y, como remate, la política.

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 ...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

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.