Vida, costumbres, olores y sabores

Este libro de Carlos Tablada Pérez sintetiza en tres partes el recorrido vital de la Primera Bailarina del Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Viengsay Valdés Herrera. La obra parte de "Los cimientos" y cuenta el proceso formativo de Viengsay hasta convertirse en la figura estelar que es hoy. Al leer "El alma de raíz" nos acercamos al virtuosismo de esta bailarina en voces de reconocidas figuras de la escuela cubana de ballet y finaliza la biografía "Con luz propia", un retrato de lo que ha sido el éxito mundial de la Valdés. Recoge el libro el testimonio de figuras imprescindibles del ballet...

Che’s original, never-before-published diaries from the guerrilla war in Cuba’s Sierra Maestra. Unpublished for over fifty years, these dozen notebooks were the source material for the articles that comprise Che’s famous Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, on which Steven Soderbergh has based his movie Che: The Argentine. Like Che’s Bolivian Diary, these daily reflections reveal as much about the author as they do about the events and individuals described. Che’s comments are always incisive, often highly self-critical, and sometimes brutally frank. This book includes many ...

The private diaries record aspects of everyday life, woven together by the affective life, in an attempt to capture and contain them in words, and to retain them through writing. They originated as texts for exclusive personal use, but by subsequent developments, they have come to take another course and have been published posthumously, achieving completely different goals from those that initiated them. Such is the case of the two texts that are the subject of this edition: the diaries of Soledad Acosta Kemble and Jose Maria Samper Agudelo, written during four months and four days, before...

Cuando don José María Morelos salió de Michoacán reuniendo tropas por la Costa Grande para extender la lucha armada por las provincias del sur, ya traía la encomienda ordenada por don Miguel Hidalgo: la toma del Castillo de San Diego en Acapulco. Describir el genio militar del general Morelos, su viaje desde Yanhuitlán, en la Sierra Mixteca —donde dejó en defensa de la región a Mariano Matamoros—, y el paso por los pueblos serranos, luego por las comunidades de la Costa Chica hasta llegar a la Sabana, en Acapulco, es uno de los motivos para escribir este libro. El 21 de agosto de...