El milagro Del Potro

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the...

«La noche de mi muerte ocurrieron cosas extrañas en mi apartamento parisino...». Un Jean Guitton casi centenario imagina en Mi testamento filosófico su muerte, su entierro y su juicio. En su lecho de muerte dialoga con Pascal sobre las razones para creer en Dios, con Bergson sobre las razones para ser cristiano y con Pablo VI sobre las razones de ser católico. Durante su entierro conversa sobre el arte con el Greco, sobre el mal con de Gaulle, sobre el amor y la poesía con Dante y sobre la filosofía con Sócrates. En su juicio intervienen santa Teresa de Lisieux y François...

God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin. We admire these men for their greatness, but the truth is Augustine grappled with sexual passions. Martin Luther struggled to control his tongue. John Calvin fought the battle of faith with worldly weapons.

I "write my songs/ so people can sing them to me/and the day people fail me/ that day I 'm going to cry... These are famous verses whose origin we are going to find out in this book, which rescues unknown anecdotes from the composer. Reading it is, in the words of his daughter Paloma, "go on singing his songs to do not fail him."