Manuel Gómez Morin, 1915-1939

A collection of revealing interviews, this book tells Nick Cave’s tumultuous yet successful story in his own words. Discussing his 30-year-long career as a rock-and-roll front man as well as his other labors as a talented novelist, screenwriter, and songwriter, this illuminating autobiography-of-sorts provides insight into why Cave has become one of the most respected artists in recent history. These no-holds-barred interviews cover everything from his time with The Birthday Party, to the global success of The Bad Seeds, to the relationship between his addictions and his artistry. Una...

En el V centenario de la Reforma, Taurus publica la biografía definitiva de Martín Lutero. Cuando Martín Lutero clavó una hoja de papel a la puerta de la iglesia de una pequeña ciudad universitaria, el 31 de octubre de 1517, desencadenó un proceso que cambió el mundo occidental para siempre. Las ideas de Lutero se extendieron como la pólvora. Su ataque a la Iglesia pronto convulsionó Alemania, dividió Europa y polarizó las creencias. Desencadenó décadas de persecución religiosa, malestar social y guerra. A largo plazo, sus ideas, paradójicamente, ayudaron a romper el dominio de ...

Crónicas de efectos desternillantes o nostálgicos se suceden y se alternan en este volumen creando el efecto de una biografía dispersa y fragmentaria que ofrece claves, destellos e imágenes siempre originales de la vida, la creación y el espíritu de nuestro poeta mayor. Neruda “derramaba inconteniblemente su amistad como sus versos”, dice el escritor uruguayo Carlos Martínez Moreno y en el libro de Varas los amigos de Neruda: Margarita Aguirre, Juvencio Valle, Rubén Azócar (a) “el cara de hombre”, Picasso, Paul Eluard, el excéntrico Acario Cotapos, el arquitecto Alberto...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...