El chozo o la mirada abierta

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

Con este libro el autor trata de adentrarse en el alma de don Miguel de Unamuno. Siguiendo la búsqueda de Dios como hilo conductor de sus escritos -epistolario, novela, tratados, teatro, poesía...-, se van identificando sus ansias constantes y quemantes de inmortalidad, sus vivencias interiores, su drama personal. La figura de este hombre agónico se perfila como la de alguien sometido por la mano divina a una noche oscura y cerrada, en la que deambula y rema «proa al Infinito». No se da tregua en su afán por vivir la que llamaba 15.a obra de misericordia: despertar al dormido, rompiendo ...

En El viaje a Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examina la relación entre creatividad y alcohol a través de las obras y la vida de seis escritores extraordinarios: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever y Raymond Carver. Los seis escritores eran alcohólicos y la bebida asoma en sus páginas más conocidas, desde Un tranvía llamado Deseo a Suave es la noche, El nadador o París era una fiesta. A menudo bebían juntos: Hemingway y Fitzgerald iban de bar en bar por el París de los años veinte; y Carver y Cheever compartían borracheras en Iowa...

Gustavo Cisneros is one of the most successful business leaders in the history of Latin America. He took the major company built by his father, Diego Cisneros, and transformed it into a diversified, international powerhouse. Indeed, he was perhaps the first entrepreneur to see the potential of the U.S. Hispanic market, and he cofounded Univision, which would become the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States. In his book, Pablo Bachelet narrates an engaging tale about the growth of an influential and complex entrepreneurial organization and the evolution of its leader....