Sueños de paz

La apasionante vida del barón Thyssen es la historia de un hombre con el que su abuelo August, un auténtico visionario que creó a fi nales del siglo xix el imperio industrial más importante de Europa, ya soñaba antes de que naciera. Con tan sólo veintitrés años, y a pesar de ser el menor de cuatro hermanos, tuvo que reconstruir el entramado de las más de cien empresas familiares, una parte de las cuales se había perdido durante la segunda guerra mundial.Hombre con temple de acero y alma de artista, el barón Thyssen, al tiempo que volvía a poner en pie el emporio familiar, daba...

Estudios sobre los principales escritores del exilio: Enrique Labrador Ruiz, Lydia Cabrera, Guillermo Cabrera Infante y muchos otros.

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...

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...