Tras la ruta del hambre

First published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes was destined to beget a whole new genre, the so-called picaresque novel. Its great popularity may be attributed largely to its daring autobiographical form, which allows the reader to observe the magnificent, conquering Spain of Charles the Fifth through the inner consciousness of a humble figure called Lazarus, whose name, perhaps, comes from the poor leper mentioned in the Gospels. The Lazarillo is the first literary expression of a feeling basic to the very existence of the Spanish people, especially since the fifteenth century: they were what...

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...

Hermanos, siendo un libro de ficcion trata de vivencias veridicas, y muchas veces personales, de modo que no sabria calificarlo, si biografia o cuento.

Américo Vespucio, que legó su nombre al Nuevo Mundo, no participó sin embargo en su descubrimiento, ni tampoco pretendió jamás bautizarlo. Entonces, ¿por qué lleva su nombre el continente? En este ensayo, escrito en 1941 y publicado póstumamente, Zweig reconstruye el conjunto de circunstancias, casualidades y malentendidos que explican el extraño error que inmortalizó a Vespucio. Paradójicamente, Colón descubrió América, pero no la reconoció, mientras que Vespucio, que no la descubrió, fue el primero en reconocerla como un nuevo continente. Y es que lo decisivo de un hecho es...