El Hedonista

Of all the figures throughout history, probably none have had so many assassination attempts made on their life as Fidel Castro. This book gives detailed overview of some of the more than 600 plots to assassinate him, where exploding cigars, poisons, political plots, mafia and other methods have been used.

Al final de sus días, coincidentes con las postrimerías del siglo XX, la poetisa Dulce María Loynaz, Premio Cervantes 1992, recuerda su vida, y mediante una extensa misiva a su amigo y albacea literario, nos hace partícipes de confidencias e intimidades. A través de estas memorias, construidas arqueológicamente a partir de una fecunda correspondencia, múltiples conversaciones y su propia obra, el autor nos entrega una historia real y, sobre todo, muy humana, de la poetisa. Dulce María Loynaz: Memorias de una poetisa es una intensa y extensa reflexión sobre el proceso de creación y...

"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the extraordinary experience of Auguste Guinnard, a young French immigrant who, around 1850, gets lost in the Pampas and is captured by native tribes who considered every foreigner a foe. Bound to a cruel slavery among the last nomads of Patagonia, Guinnard, was forced to sleep in the ground, and survive naked feeding from raw meat and fresh blood. In spite of being despised, and often chastised even by...

Martin Fierro, the argentine poem, has been subject to numerous ideology biased interpretations. This appropriation, sometimes outrageous, has spurred the discussion whether Martin Fierro or Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo should be considered in orderto bring the Argentine society into a just, peaceful civil terrain. To read Quiroga Lavie's biography of Jose Hernandez means delving into the mind of an earnest, law abiding scholar, that nevertheless falls into the same trap of romanticizing the roguish characteristics with complete disregard of the fact that Martin Fierro's advise to his sons, ...