José Mujica en sus palabras

Defecto de forma nos descubre la faceta más visionaria de Primo Levi. Si en sus libros sobre Auschwitz se adentra en los límites de lo humano, en estos magníficos cuentos científico-fantásticos explora el porvenir de la humanidad. Inspirado por el clima de incertidumbre de la Guerra Fría, que condicionaba las reflexiones sobre los usos y abusos de la tecnología, y haciendo gala de una mordaz imaginación, Levi aborda cuestiones que, en aquel tiempo, rayaban la ciencia ficción. Temas tan actuales como la manipulación genética, la creación artificial de seres vivos o los...

"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...

Llámese azar, destino, o una innata capacidad de sobrevivir, Mariano Constante salió con vida de la pesadilla de Mauthausen. Atrás quedan los años de lucha en España contra los nacionales, la huida a Francia para combatir el fascismo, el periplo por diversas cárceles y prisiones hasta su confinamiento en el campo de exterminio de Mauthausen. Son ahora tiempos de paz, de saborear la libertad, de recuperar una existencia normal como civil... Sin embargo, Mariano está a punto de descubrir un nuevo peligro, menos mortal y concreto que el nazismo, pero también más difícil de localizar y...

Calusas, timucuanos, guales, semnolas, creeks, were some of the tribes of Florida at the time when Pedro Menndez de Avils established there the settlement of San Agustn, the oldest city in the United States. Strong and ferocious warriors, who lived in almost permanent state of war and mutilated their enemies or made them slaves, offered a strong resistance to the Spanish who stepped on their territory. However, these, in exchange for many lives, hardships and suffering, managed to settle on their shores. That was the task in which the Asturian sailor insisted on starting in 1565, the...