La historia detrás de Luisito Rey

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...

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

En estos textos, hilvanados poco a poco tras amargos amaneceres detr�s de los barrotes, se describen hechos cotidianos simples de un hombre simple, llevado al extremo de su condici�n humana... He aqu� una cr�nica desgarradora que conduce de la mano al lector a trav�s de los intrincados y hediondos pasillos de la c�rcel federal de Puente Grande, donde durante tres a�os Jes�s Lemus vivi� una aut�ntica temporada en el infierno y padeci� los brutales mecanismos punitivos del sistema penitenciario mexicano. En 2008, cuando Jes�s Lemus dirig�a el peri�dico El Tiempo de...

Egypt's sun queen magnificently revealed in a new book by renowned Egyptologist, Aidan Dodson Nefertiti's name and face are perhaps the best known of any royal woman of ancient Egypt, yet for many she is little more than an icon or archetype of ancient beauty. However, recent research has fleshed out our knowledge--or at least credible hypotheses--about her life and career, pointing to her being an important political figure in her own right, rather than simply the principal spouse of the so-called "heretic king," Akhenaten, and mother-in-law (if not mother) of Tutankhamun. In Nefertiti,...