Genio y figura de Alfonso Reyes

This is a pondered biography, free of fanaticism, about the most famous and influential Mexican bishop of the 20th century, a man of action who grew up listening to stories about the Mexican Revolution and religious persecution. He was both well-loved and criticized in and outside the church. This passionate historical study gathers many documents inaccessible until now and includes first-hand accounts from members of the Catholic hierarchy. It discusses whether Samuel Ruiz promoted a theology that incited violence or, on the contrary, if he preached against the armed struggle and defended...

"Este libro es un ensayo sobre dos escritores centrales de la literatura peruana y coloca en el centro de su argumentación la relación literatura-política de una manera brillante y erudita, rastreando las posturas de ambos escritores a través de la historia e identifi cando nudos ideológicos clave, tanto de sus biografías intelectuales como del campo intelectual peruano y latinoamericano. El libro muestra, de un lado, detalles e ideas poco recordados de Vargas Llosa, y estudia el paso del intelectual comprometido de la década de 1960 al intelectual defensor del liberalismo desde la...

Escrito durante su movilización en Alsacia entre 1939 y 1940, este diario posee el inestimable valor de ser a un tiempo el testimonio de un soldado y la reflexión sobre sí y sobre su situación de uno de los pensadores más lúcidos de la época.

Written during the last eight months of his life, these diaries are an unfiltered narration of the life of Joe Orton, the extremely successful and famous British playwright. On August 9, 1967, Orton was murdered in London by Kenneth Halliwell, his lover of 16 years, who bludgeoned him with a hammer and then immediately committed suicide. Halliwell left a note that said that all would be explained if the police read Orton's diaries. In the diaries, Orton narrates his literary success, his sexual escapades—at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers—and...