Conocer a Charles Dickens / Knowing Charles Dickens

An exceptional biography of the incomparable Colombian romantic poet and author examines Pombo not only as the excentric lover and admirer of the night, and a man inclined to dress himself as a woman, but also his rarely mentioned sides--engineer, nihilist, military man, patriot, and advocate of Bogotá's nineteenth-century culture.

El 18 de junio de 1976, el jefe de la Policía Federal de la dictadura militar, Cesáreo Cardozo, murió en un atentado. Horas antes, Ana María González, militante montonera y compañera de estudios de su hija, le había colocado una bomba debajo de su cama.

Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...

GARDEL es una biografía magistral que está a la altura de un artista brillante. Un trabajo minucioso y extraordinario que, manufacturado con la destreza y el sello prestigioso de Felipe Pigna, relata la vida de un artista único, que, por si fuera poco, tuvo una vida fascinante. La gloria y la tragedia. El talento y las historias inolvidables. La música del alma. Como bien anticipa el autor en la introducción: "Tenía muchas ganas de escribir esta historia, quizás una historia argentina entre 1890 y 1935, des-de Gardel, desde su vida y su obra, hablando necesariamente de la historia del...