Todo sobre Stephen King

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Ricardo I de Inglaterra, más conocido como Ricardo Corazón de León (Oxford 1157-Chaluz 1199), rey guerrero amado por sus soldados y odiado por muchos, fue posiblemente el único rey europeo, junto con Federico II de Alemania y, antes, Carlomagno, admirado por los árabes. Conquistador como su tatarabuelo Guillermo de Normandía, que arrebató Inglaterra a anglos y sajones; político irascible como su padre Enrique II, responsable de la muerte de Tomás Becket; y trovador como su bisabuelo Guillermo IX de Aquitania, Ricardo Corazón de León ha pasado a la leyenda por derecho propio y,...

"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...

«L’età classica della corrida finì un giorno del 1914 dal barbiere. Un giovanotto dalla bazza pronunciata entrò in un famoso salone della madrilena calle Sevilla e sistemandosi sulla poltrona ordinò: “Barba e capelli. Ma prima mi tagli il codino” [...] Era un matador di 22 anni in rapinosa ascesa [...] Voleva solo cortarse la coleta, anacronistico cascame settecentesco, prolungando sin nel look la rivoluzione modernista che aveva appena avviato nelle plazas de toros. Di lì in poi la storia della tauromachia si sarebbe divisa in un prima e un dopo Belmonte [...]. Ma in che cosa...