Mussolini y el fascismo italiano

Toibin examines the lives and works of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, whose homosexuality remained hidden. This is an intimate encounter with Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, Elizabeth Bishop, and Pedro Almodovar among others. Through their work, Toibin is able to come to terms with his own inner desires and secret erotic energy.

Esta obra central en el universo benjaminiano se empezó a escribir en los años treinta del pasado siglo como contrapeso al mítico (y extrañado) proyecto del Libro de los Pasajes y al ascenso de los nazis al poder. Benjamin se torna a mirar su propia infancia: el nacimiento del "apetito de historias" en un niño enfermizo. No obstante, influido por Proust (de quien fue traductor), el autor alcanza una resonancia mayor y le devuelve su libertad fundacional a la forma ensayística: capta la compleja trama de temporalidades que nos conforma, la resistencia del pasado a marcharse y su promesa...

Montañas, valles, páramos, cañones, nevados, volcanes, glaciares, desiertos, lagos, bosques, estepas, frío, calor, viento, geología sorprendente, cataratas, salinas, cielos infinitos, océanos, aguas termales, trochas, autopistas, interesantes ruinas, pingüinos, cóndores, comida variada, gente amable, precios cómodos, carne asada, fronteras fáciles, mismo idioma, lugares únicos en el mundo, cultura indígena. Esto y mucho más es Suramérica. El autor comparte sus numerosas aventuras personales, no siempre agradables para él, durante cinco meses y a lo largo de casi cuarenta mil...

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...