Mujer al volante

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...

Desesperado intérprete de la mutación social de Italia, Pasolini ha tratado ininterrumpidamente de comunicar con su obra el fundamento de su herética trasgresión, pero sobre todo de sus sueños imposibles, de su ser como poeta. Con rigor metodológico y analítico, a través de un detallado estudio de sus escritos publicados en vida o póstumos, Martellini firma un denso retrato del último intelectual del siglo pasado. La crítica lúcida y apasionada que Pasolini acomete a través de una obra de registros complejos, desde la reivindicación poética de la lengua friulana, hasta una...

"No soy escritora. No pretendo hacer literatura. Sólo quiero transmitir unas vivencias personales, unas reflexiones propias [...] En definitiva, son relatos redactados por una persona sorda. Hablan de cómo percibo, pienso y siento el mundo. [...] Espero que la experiencia vivida pueda ser de alguna utilidad para aquellas personas que inicien la lectura, les sea agradable y que, al menos, disfruten tanto como yo mientras escribía estas páginas.” Pepita Cedillo

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...