Hijos de Hipócrates I. La semilla

Un libro que se acerca a la memoria a través de la palabra y la imagen. En él se reconstruye una vida a partir de capturas sobre la arquitectura, el arte, los viajes, la ciudad y la casa. En palabras de su autor, «está concebido como una serie de instantáneas, en homenaje a una primera cámara —una Brownie Fiesta de Kodak—, lo más parecido a una cámara oscura elemental, primaria. Estas instantáneas son fragmentos de la existencia. Este libro es un fragmento de fragmentos. La vida continúa». Lanzado en 2010, fue el primer libro de narrativa en el catálogo de Laguna Libros. Ahora ...

The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father. Documenting his family's life in rural Sweden and reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of...

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

On the 35th anniversary of his death comes the definitive biography of rock 'n' roll legend Jimi Hendrix-by the New York Times bestselling author Charles R. Cross oinciding with the 35th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's tragic death in 1970, Room Full of Mirrors is the definitive biography of rock 'n' roll's greatest guitarist. Meticulously researched and based on more than 300 interviews with those who knew him best-more than half of whom have never spoken about him before-this landmark book recounts the entire arc of Hendrix's life, from his troubled childhood in Seattle's projects and the...