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Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

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Los autores tratan la influencia de la creencia en seis personajes: tres gobernantes (Isabel, Legazpi y De Gaulle), y tres figuras indiscutibles del ámbito del arte, la ciencia y la técnica (Gaudí, John Ford y Lemaître), poniendo así de manifiesto cómo la huella de la fe subyace en las obras más célebres de estos seis personajes de la Historia.

Este volumen nos muestra el lado más íntimo del padre de la literatura del siglo XX. Este volumen invita al lector a conocer el lado más íntimo del padre de la literatura del siglo XX a través de sus diarios, legajos y cuadernos de viaje, editados por orden cronológico y respetando fielmente los manuscritos originales del escritor checo, sin las supresiones y censuras de Max Brod. Estas páginas ofrecen una panorámica de la vida de Kafka, sus paseos por Praga, sus sueños, sus sentimientos hacia el padre idolatrado y la mujer con la que no lograba casarse, su contienda personal con la...