Las incesantes aventuras de los Rolling Stones : bailando con el diablo

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...

The private diaries record aspects of everyday life, woven together by the affective life, in an attempt to capture and contain them in words, and to retain them through writing. They originated as texts for exclusive personal use, but by subsequent developments, they have come to take another course and have been published posthumously, achieving completely different goals from those that initiated them. Such is the case of the two texts that are the subject of this edition: the diaries of Soledad Acosta Kemble and Jose Maria Samper Agudelo, written during four months and four days, before...

XX Premio Fundación Obra Pía de los Pizarro Francisco Pizarro vino al mundo en Trujillo de Extremadura. Fue fruto de los furtivos amores mantenidos entre la campesina Francisca González y el capitán Gonzalo Pizarro; por tanto tuvo genes plebeyos e hidalgos. Sin embargo, muy pronto primaron en él los paternos, ya que a los diecisiete años éstos le indujeron a seguir la carrera militar. A esa edad se enroló en los tercios del Gran Capitán, que luchaban en Nápoles, y desde entonces se convirtió en un soldado. Consecuentemente, después de regresar de Italia, en 1502, marchó a las...

Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these volumes. The biographies detail the subjects' childhood, motivation, accomplishments, and humanity, as well as their impact on history. Figuras destacadas que han protagonizado los hechos más importantes de la historia están retratados en estos bellos volúmenes económicos. Tan fascinante como los hechos que los hicieron famosos, estas biografías detallan los hechos conocidos acerca de los sujetos con énfasis en sus niñeces, sus motivaciones, sus triunfos y el impacto que tuvieron en la historia, revelando...