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Gracias a las cartas que Cecilia Böhl de Faber intercambiaba con amigos y familiares, podemos conocer la parte más íntima de su pensamiento. Este decimocuarto volumen de «Obras completas de Fernán Caballero» recoge la correspondencia entre la importante escritora española y sus amistades, reconocidas personalidades de la época, como José Fernández Espino, Fermín de Iribarren, el coronel Miguel de Velarde y otros. Igualmente, se recogen dos poemas finales, uno de Guillermo Fortaleza y otro de Pedro Madrazo, como homenaje al escritor Fernán Caballero, seudónimo bajo el que Cecilia...

Vasili Grossman (1905-1964), convencido corresponsal de guerra del Ejército Soviético de orígen judío, vivió los acontecimientos más terribles del siglo pasado: la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Holocausto y el Terror stalinista. El descubrimiento de la masacre nazi de 30.000 judíos, incluida su propia madre, en su pueblo natal, Berdíchev, le decidió a destapar la complicidad entre nazis y comunistas que había posibilitado este exterminio. Durante casi 30 años fue perseguido y su principal obra, Vida y destino, no salió a la luz hasta su publicación en Suiza en 1980. La vida y el...

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...