Memorias

A fines de abril de 2006 remueve al acontecer político y social el movimiento de estudiantes secundarios. Uno de los hechos importantes ocurridos al iniciar el siglo, recogido aquí en cinco miradas, que alimentan la memoria y alientan el debate.

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to the passion, courage and keen insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. They also reflect his conviction that black people in South Africa could not be liberated until they united to break their chains of servitude, a key tenet of the Black Consciousness movement that he helped found. This Spanish translation of the English-language book "I Write What I Like" contains a selection of Biko's...

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Según Ramón Gaya, pintor y poeta refugiado en México, la situación del exiliado "no está mal..., es como una habitación con los balcones abiertos". Si tal parecer resulta duro de aceptar, no pocos poetas llegados al exilio al borde de su madurez la alcanzaron de lleno gracias a él, aunque fuese de forma dolorosa, prueba de que la paradoja es certera. Es el caso de Domenchina, Prados y Cernuda, a los que este libro dedica la mayoría de sus páginas. Las restantes se ocupan de Max Aub en cuanto poeta, Altolaguirre editor de los clásicos, y una rara avis, Gerardo Deniz, quien, después...