A la sombra de los cuervos

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable...

Espléndida biografía en la que Alfred Einstein plasma la vida humana y artística del prodigioso Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, el músico cuyo genio comenzó a desarrollarse desde los primeros años de su niñez y que su padre, Leopold Mozart, supo alentar. Una vida corta (nació el 27 de enero de 1756 y murió el 5 de diciembre de 1791) pero fructífera, que ha legado algunas de las mejores composiciones musicales de todos los tiempos. Para construir esta biografía, Alfred Einstein ha recurrido a su correspondencia, al seguimiento de su agitada vida (era un apasionado viajero) y a la...

The correspondence in this brief collection tells of journeys, separations, fantasies, and misunderstandings experienced by the colorful Arthur Cravan, all written to his wife Mina Loy prior to his mysterious disappearance in the Gulf of Mexico. The complete and partial letters and postcards are not mere love letters but rather an introduction to a true character who embodied the worries, activities, and audacities of early 20th-century culture. Even though Mina did not love Arthur at first, it is quite apparent in the content of this book that he was completely struck by her immediately. La...