Los Cuentos de Papá

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Un recorrido fascinante por la edad de oro de la cultura rusa, por el autor de Los europeos. En una escena de Guerra y paz, la condesa Natasha, educada en Europa, escucha una danza folclórica rusa e instintivamente se lanza a bailar. Este emocionante momento literario con el que arranca El baile de Natasha simboliza las sensibilidades y los impulsos compartidos y a menudo contradictorios que dieron lugar a una de las culturas más deslumbrantes del mundo. En esta obra maestra, Orlando Figes explora con elegancia, rigor y un maravilloso talento narrativo las poderosas y complejas fuerzas...

En cuestión de bribones, este es un país con conciencia de exceso de corruptos desde tiempos inmemoriales. Reseñar los bribones que ha habido en este país y no desembocar en una larga enciclopedia es una tarea complicada, por su gran abundancia. Ese ha sido el riesgo, incluso, al acotar en este libro un periodo histórico concreto: el que va desde los inicios del reinado de Carlos IV de Borbón al de su descendiente Juan Carlos I; es decir, el periodo que se conoce en historiografía como Época Contemporánea, los últimos doscientos años y pico. Aquí no están todos los que son, pero, ...