Joan Fuster: escritos de crítica cultural

¿Cómo era la ciudad donde se formó Carlos Gardel? ¿En qué consistió ese fascinante y misterioso mundo urbano de principios del siglo XX? ¿Cómo se construyó aquel universo cultural en el que llegaron a convivir el tango y la ópera, el sainete y la zarzuela, los Podestá e Isadora Duncan?

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

After the success of Miss Narco, Javier Valdez presents a new work on Mexico s drug crisis. This time, the leading characters are young men and women at that crucial age in their personal development who, in one way or another, come across the world of drug trafficking. Some escape its clutches while others fall in its trap, but their lives are irrevocably changed. The author collects the most intense, moving and surprising accounts that mark Mexicos social and political reality today. Spanish Description: Tras el exito de Miss Narco, Javier Valdez entrega una nueva obra acerca del...

De la colección Nudos de la Historia argentina, este libro despliega los orígenes del peronismo y la construcción del 17 de octubre como mito fundacional.