Antonio Machado

Esto no es un libro sobre la tuberculosis; es un libro sobre la vida. En concreto sobre la vida de Chéjov, Kafka, Mansfield, Salvat-Papasseit, Éluard y Orwellunidas por el hilo invisible de una enfermedad. Plaga porque se contagia como una peste. Tanto, de hecho, que se aísla a las personas enfermas, se las destierra y se las condena al ostracismo. Y en ese confinamiento, los enfermos se marchitan y empalidecen (de ahí que la epidemia reciba el calificativo de «blanca»). Un aclamado debut literario, publicado originalmente en catalán, de Ada Klein Fortuny, autora tras un seudónimo,...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

The lives of Rita Marley and her husband Bob Marley are intimately shared in this look at their youths, their marriage, and the music that has made them legends. Beginning with her youth in the Trench Town ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Rita narrates her early encounters with the Wailing Wailers and how her relationship with Bob developed and changed as he transformed from local musician to international icon. This memoir emphasizes Rita's own musicianship, first as part of Bob Marley's backing vocalists, the I-Threes, and later her career after his death carrying on the musical legacy he began.

A history of 2,000 years of the Catholic Church through an examination of the men who led it, this book focuses on 100 of the 265 popes, from Peter to the present. It includes profiles of men such as Pope Gregory I, who became the patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers; Pope Innocent III, who organized for the Fourth Crusade, which ultimately led to the sacking of Constantinople; and the most recent pope, Benedict XVI. Readers interested in the history of one of the most powerful institutions in world history will find this an important resource. Una historia de 2,000...