Al abrigao de los recuerdos

Los escritores suelen hacerse una imagen de sí mismos y luego intentan parecérsele.¿Importa más la persona que el personaje? ¿El autor es el anverso o es el reverso de la persona que escribe?¿En qué medida debe separarse al artista que crea y al hombre que vive? Éstas y otras preguntas detonan y articulan este libro que es muchos libros. Es una galería de retratos de escritores y escritoras que incluyen las claves de sus universos creadores, los rasgos que dan relieve y forma a sus personalidades y el recuento de las opiniones que los perfilan. El libro es también una intrahistoria...

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Las historias personales de más de 20 "héroes" que desempeñaron un destacado papel durante la construcción, diseño y explosión de la mayor mina de la Primera Guerra Mundial en los Dolomitas, sobre la localidad de Cortina d'Ampezzo.