Tiempo de incertidumbre

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

In 1990 Román Gubern met Enrique Planas who turned out to be the leader of the Vatican Film Library. When Gubern settled in Rome as director of the Cervantes Institute, the Catalan priest contacted him and proposed to participate in the Vatican preparations to celebrate the centenary of the cinema.

El retrato de nuestro primer filósofo moderno. Ortega y Gasset, quizá distanciándose de su maestro Bonilla y San Martín, autor de una aparatosa biografía de Luis Vives, sentenció con su rotundidad característica que la vida del filósofo valentino se reducía a nacer, estudiar, escribir y morir. Sin embargo, Vives oculta una historia apasionante. Ni la pretenciosa biografía de Bonilla ni la minimalista descripción de Ortega dicen la verdad de Vives. Con el paso del tiempo, y dejando atrás las increíbles manipulaciones de la época de Franco, un grupo importante e internacional de...

Ensayo biográfico sobre la carrera intelectual de Marcel Bataillon que rescata sus primeras preocupaciones en torno a la historia, su profundización en ellas y el surgimiento de sus ya clásicos ensayos sobre la América hispánica y el humanismo. El ensayo rescata valiosos datos sobre las circunstancias que rodearon la escritura de obras como Erasmo y España y sus Estudios sobre Las Casas.