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AguafuertesIn Aguafuertes, Jesús del Campo paints a colorful picture of the Baroque, a time when the air smelled of gunpowder and the seas of spices. Each of these extraordinary vignettes, drawn with the finesse of a historian, transport us to an era in which...
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Carta de una desconocida"I just want to talk to you, tell you everything for the first time. You should know my whole life, which was always yours even though you never knew it. But only you will know my secret, when I'm dead and you no longer...
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Cartas escogidas (1888-1922)Marcel Proust was, from his earliest youth until his death in 1922, a meticulous and prolific correspondent: he wrote to relatives, family, friends, defenders of his work and even his biggest detractors. In the thousands of letters he sent, in which the register and...
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Clásicos para la vida"Let others boast of the pages they have written; I am proud of the ones I have read”, said Borges. And it is that good books transform us; a passage, no matter how brief, can arouse the reader's curiosity and encourage them to read...
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De un mundo a otro mundoThis book mixes impressions of Viennese and European life before the World War I with Zweig's personal recollections and detailed anecdotes. It chronicles the final days of Austria-Hungary under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, including the educational system and sexual morals of the...
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Despacio el mundoTuning an instrument, Ramón Andrés reminds us, is in a certain way an attempt to fix in a moment of perfection the eternal coming and going of the world around us; the endeavour not only of the musician, but also of so many painters...
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DictadoresFear and violence are not enough for any dictator to govern: these strategies may be essential to achieve power and even to maintain it for a time, but they are not usually effective in the long term. The paradox of the modern dictator is...
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El arte de tener razón (Batiscafo)Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, as to hold one’s own, whether one is in the right or the wrong. A man may be objectively in the right, and nevertheless in the eyes of bystanders, and sometimes in his own, he may come...
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El fin del "Homo sovieticus"With the sole help of a tape recorder and a pen, Svetlana Aleksievich strives to keep alive the memory of the tragedy that was the USSR, to tell the micro-stories of a great utopia. Communism proposed the folly of transforming the old man, the...
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El humor judío. Una historia seriaIn a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands”―including...
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El país donde florece el limoneroThe Land Where Lemons Grow is the sweeping story of Italy's cultural history told through the history of its citrus crops. From the early migration of citrus from the foothills of the Himalayas to Italy's shores to the persistent role of unique crops such as...
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El seductorHertz Minsker, a Jewish immigrant, self-proclaimed intellectual and outright charlatan, lives at the expense of real estate magnate Morris Kálisher, a childhood friend. Inveterate seducer, he is married for the fourth time to the charming Bronie and has an affair with Minne, Morris's wife,...
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GiRafa was the first to discover Gi in the ruined building: a chance encounter between two people on the margins of society. And it was also he who, torn between fascination and repulsion, revealed his secret, for what value does a discovery have that...
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Keyle la PelirrojaThe year is 1911 when Keyle, a Jewish prostitute, meets the love of her life, Yarme, an ex-convict. The young couple dreams of escaping the misery of the Warsaw ghetto, where they live under the constant threat of pogroms, so when Max, an old...
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La familia KarnowskyThrough the story of three generations of a Jewish family, the Karnowskys, this novel, originally published in 1943, offers us an extraordinary fresh of the first half of the 20th century. David, the patriarch, who at the dawn of the century leaves the Polish...
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La gataAlain and Camille, friends since childhood, marry with the blessing of their families. Alain is satisfied with the union, whose main attraction lies in the idealized beauty of the prudent and passive wife. But life together with the real Camille will reveal to him...
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La idea naturalMaría Negroni traces representations of nature, blending the visible with the expressible, in her quest for a meaningful whole. With deep lyricism, she recreates the dreams of the classics, the naturalist fervor of the Renaissance, and the fascination with nature in the Enlightenment. This...
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La liebre con ojos de ámbarMore than two hundred wooden and ivory figurines, none larger than a matchbox, are the origin of this fascinating book in which Edmund de Waal describes the journey they have taken over the years. A journey full of adventures, war, love and loss, which...
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La tía MameA ten-year-old boy is orphaned in the unedifying America of the 1920s and is placed under the control of an eccentric lady, obsessed with being à la page, vital, capricious, seductive and adorable. Together with her, he will spend the next thirty years in...
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La utilidad de lo inútil. ManifiestoIn this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues for the utility of useless knowledge and against the contemporary fixation on utilitarianism—for the fundamental importance of the liberal arts and against the damage caused by their neglect. Inspired by the reflections of...
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