Cuentame La Vida

La biografía de Pío Baroja, una vida fecunda. Pío Baroja fue, sin duda, uno de los máximos escritores del siglo XX español. También es uno de los más leídos, hasta el punto que el adjetivo «barojiano» como forma de entender la escritura tiene una irrecusable y expresiva entidad. Y, sin embargo, es uno de los menos estudiados, si se le compara con Unamuno, Machado y Valle-Inclán, e incluso con su amigo Azorín. La presente biografía reúne los datos de una vida que ha sido contada otras veces y que el mismo Baroja narró en dos de sus momentos: al pasar la cuarentena y al entrar en ...

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

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...

Un libro que habla del otro Perón, del íntimo, del humano, del hombre y su contexto, recorriendo anécdotas y momentos clave de la historia del peronismo y su líder.