Retratos de Santos / 2

Uno de los grandes libros de memorias europeos del siglo XX. Una nueva traducción de un clásico moderno del humanismo. San Michele es el nombre que el médico sueco Axel Munthe dio a la villa que compró en Capri en 1887. Construida en el punto más alto de la isla —en el lugar que antes ocupara la residencia del emperador romano Tiberio—, Munthe pasaría allí el resto de sus días, convirtiéndola poco a poco en un refugio de belleza para su singular personalidad: un verdadero prodigio arquitectónico, un mundo de pérgolas y jardines, de perros, monos y lechuzas, de esculturas,...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Con una lucidez poco común, Nadine Cordowinus sintetiza los rasgos esenciales que han ido configurando los tres pilares del arte flamenco a través de la historia, para, a continuación, tratar de diagnosticar el presente, haciendo especial hincapié en el baile. Tradición y experimentos en el baile flamenco: Rosa Montes & Alberto Alarcón, es un esclarecedor ensayo sobre el pasado y a la vez, sobre el futuro del flamenco.Con una lucidez poco común, Nadine Cordowinus sintetiza los rasgos esenciales que han ido configurando los tres pilares del arte flamenco a través de la historia, para,...

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...