Cajal

Un viaje de Nueva York a Buenos Aires recolecta las impresiones y reflexiones de Sarmiento apuntadas durante parte de su travesía, entre julio y agosto de 1868. El que muy pronto se convertiría en presidente de Argentina había ido en misión diplomática a estudiar instituciones y métodos educativos de Estados Unidos, país del que admiraba el sistema de gobierno y las costumbres de su pueblo. Por este diario desfilan las notas de Sarmiento a propósito de sus relaciones con distintas personas y grupos norteamericanos, de los que traza sus perfiles, junto a las observaciones en su viaje...

Recopilación de una serie de documentos, publicaciones, declaraciones, entrevistas y conocimientos sobre un tema muy poco tratado en la iglesia católica.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Journalist Juan Cruz confesses in his memoirs, Scrambled Egos, that while he was very young began to be curious to inquire on the most hidden of the creators, to know their concerns, ambitions, anxieties and obsessions. Today, after forty years of dedication to cultural journalism, and after six years as head of a prestigious publishing house, that curiosity for the soul of the artists or the vagaries of literary creation is still as alive as ever, but now enriched by the experience who had the fortune to interview, accompanied as editor and, ultimately, learn about authors from the European...