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Cortazar, de cronopios y compromisosTodo en el era juego: su cara aninada, sus relatos fantasticos, sus novelas henchidas de nuevos recursos, sus pintorescas cartas, sus amores.A partir de Julio Cortazar (Bruselas, 1914-Paris, 1984) y de Rayuela (196

"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...

Albert Boadella construye una profunda y objetiva reflexión de la historia del nacionalismo a través de la vida personal y los lances de este "ex insigne catalán". Parte de sus recuerdos entrañables hacia Cataluña, pasando por sus primeros desencuentros y el creciente desencanto con su tierra, hasta llegar a la guerra total. Once años después ha sido elegido presidente de Tabarnia en el exilio. La guerra continúa sin tregua y el amor, afortunadamente, también.

When two plainclothes policemen arrested champion cyclist David Millar in a restaurant near Biarritz in 2004 for doping, it marked the beginning of a two-year exile from cycling and the end of everything else: his multimillion dollar contract with one of the biggest teams in the sport, his opulent lifestyle, the support of his teammates and closest friends, and the gold medal he’d won months before at the world championships. This candid memoir follows a young and idealistic cyclist from the early-morning streets of Hong Kong to the highest echelons of the sport in France where, overcome by ...