Canciones para astronautas

Esta obra, escrita y editada por su prima hermana más cercana, María Mercedes Olivares Schmedling, quien presenta, desde una visión única, entrañable y creativa a Gerardo Schmedling Torres. Describe los acontecimientos más significativos de la vida de Gerardo: su época juvenil, su enfermedad, los sueños y sus últimos años, narrados en esta obra, que quiere dar cuenta de un Gerardo humano, cuyo legado constituye un compendio filosófico, humanista, pedagógico y sociológico. La escritora relata su historia, no solo como su prima del alma sino como su leal estudiante y seguidora de...

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Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...

La vida y la aventura intelectual de Guillermo de Torre, del Madrid de las vanguardias al exilio en Buenos Aires. Figura capital de la modernidad hispánica, Guillermo de Torre (1900-1971) vivió dos vidas: la del ubicuo activista y crítico de las vanguardias, y la del editor y ensayista comprometido con el exilio republicano. Y ambas estuvieron ligadas, desde 1920, con las de los hermanos Jorge Luis y Norah Borges. En su primera vida, en España, fue el combativo defensor de la insurrección estética, amigo de Gómez de la Serna, García Lorca, Buñuel, Salinas o Giménez Caballero,...