El temblor del velo

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the ...

En una historia reveladora y secreta, el cantante salsero Luis Enrique comparte los momentos que dieron forma a su vida, originada en las entrañas de Nicaragua en estado de hervor, en un pueblo llamado Somoto del que salió muy joven con rumbo a Estados Unidos con una maleta llena de sueños. Llegó a la urbe estadounidense solo e indocumentado a enfrentarse a una cultura distinta, a una lengua que no conocía y a las penurias de cualquier inmigrante recién llegado. Indocumentado por años, y ejerciendo trabajos varios, su sueño de ser cantante, se veía muy lejano... casi imposible, ni...

Explores Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa's days at a Lima military school, the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, which would become the setting for one of his most important early works, The Time of the Hero.

Equal parts compelling history and personal memoir, this account documents the life of Carmen de Zulueta, author and key figure among the Spanish exiles after the Spanish Civil War. This work includes anecdotes from key historical figures?including Miguel de Unamuno, Eduardo Marquina, Manuel Cossio, Julián Besteiro, and María Zambrano, among many others?who have woven the Spanish cultural history of the 20th century. Chronicling the author's rich and intense daily life in Madrid, this book is an invaluable historical record covering the unique cultural life of Spain. Tanto una historia...