Ignacio Chávez

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

La vida de una de las primeras galeristas de arte en Chile, con un ojo único, envuelta en la vorágine de su tiempo que la llevó vivir «a la izquierda de la izquierda», como diría Matta de sí mismo.

«L’età classica della corrida finì un giorno del 1914 dal barbiere. Un giovanotto dalla bazza pronunciata entrò in un famoso salone della madrilena calle Sevilla e sistemandosi sulla poltrona ordinò: “Barba e capelli. Ma prima mi tagli il codino” [...] Era un matador di 22 anni in rapinosa ascesa [...] Voleva solo cortarse la coleta, anacronistico cascame settecentesco, prolungando sin nel look la rivoluzione modernista che aveva appena avviato nelle plazas de toros. Di lì in poi la storia della tauromachia si sarebbe divisa in un prima e un dopo Belmonte [...]. Ma in che cosa...

La Madre Teresa es considerada como "el ángel de los pobres" ya que llevó el mensaje cristiano del amor al prójimo desde los suburbios de Calcuta a los areópagos del mundo entero, convirtiéndose así en un icono de la caridad. Monseñor Leo Maasburg fue uno de sus ayudantes más cercanos durante los años que acompañó a la Madre Teresa en sus viajes por todo el mundo, siendo testigo tanto de incontables milagros como de las pequeñas anécdotas de su día a día. En este retrato personal de la pequeña monja publicado por Ediciones Palabra, nos presenta cincuenta historias...