From the Jungles to the Cathedrals

The visceral and carnal Pedro Juan Gutiérrez reviews his busy life and his provocative work, his influences and his working methods... Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is left in the pipeline. And, if we talk about Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, life and work intersect and interact until they merge in the trajectory of this author. In these pages he evokes his early first steps as a loving child poet in Matanzas, the discovery of sex and masturbation, life on the streets, his youth in the harshest and most...

Rasputín es uno de los personajes más enigmáticos y polémicos del siglo XX; un monje analfabeto que, merced a sus supuestos dones espirituales, llegó a ejercer una tutela absoluta sobre la familia Romanov y el destino de la Rusia zarista. Acusado de lascivia y un hambre de poder sin freno, terminó sus días víctima de una intriga palaciega. Basándose en los archivos rusos, los autores realizan una investigación amena y exhaustiva que arroja una imagen equilibrada y definitiva de este controvertido aventurero. La obra se divide en dos partes: la primera analiza la compleja...

La historia de España entre 1923 y 1936 es la de una transición fallida a la democracia. Ni los monárquicos reformistas ni los republicanos fueron capaces de consolidar un régimen parlamentario y democrático inclusivo, que garantizara, en paz y estabilidad, las libertades y los derechos de los españoles. La biografía y larga experiencia política de Álvaro Figueroa y Torres, conde de Romanones, es un buen exponente de los intentos de democratización del régimen liberal de la Restauración (1876-1923) y de la siguiente generación de políticos durante la Segunda República. Por...

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...