Madre coraje

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...

El autor se ha dado a la tarea de satisfacer la curiosidad de los lectores que al leer su primer libro, echaron de menos la historia de su vida temprana en Colombia. Con candidez y espontaneidad nos está contando los hechos y los secretos de algunos de sus antepasados, así como de su propia niñez y adolescencia en un país enmarañado en conflictos políticos y religiosos, a veces mezquinos y muy perjudiciales. El azar juega un papel preponderante en este reto personal del autor y lo que nos cuenta de su llegada a Londres hasta el año de 1972, quedará por mucho tiempo en la memoria del...

Stéphane Courtois demuestra en esta obra fundamental la forma en que Lenin, un joven intelectual radical, elabora, ansía y establece una dictadura ideológica despiadada al crear los conceptos y los instrumentos del totalitarismo que simbolizarían los horrores del siglo XX. La figura de Vladimir Ílich Uliánov se distingue no solo por enfrentarse a los liberales y a los demócratas, sino también a todos los movimientos socialistas. Ayudado por un inusitado poder de convicción y avanzando desde las sombras, logró conquistar, por la fuerza y sanguinariamente, el poder en octubre en 1917. ...

"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...