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The figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shines like lightning in a post-war European culture. A poet, essayist, and filmmaker, his freewheeling intellectual attitude allowed him to be a lucid, astute, and compassionate commentator on the Italy of his day. For Pasolini, poetry was not only the root and center of his creative project, but also an almost dizzying exercise in renewal and self-criticism.

Victor Klemperer's will to testify to his life under Nazi terror was reflected in about five thousand pages of newspapers. Written under constant threat of death due to his Jewish status -his marriage to an Aryan woman saved him from deportation-, several decades after his death they became a true publishing phenomenon, to which the Spanish version, published in two volumes by Galaxy Gutenberg (2003). This edition includes the most significant pages and that affect the description of everyday life in a dictatorial regime. The result is a document of unparalleled historical importance, which analyzes in extraordinary detail the institutionalization of terror by the Nazi apparatus, and which is both a moving and stark account of one of the darkest periods of the 20th century.

"Este libro se publicâo originalmente en la editorial Espasa Libros, en 2005"--Title page verso.

"Tâitulo de la ediciâon original: Timandra"--Title page verso.

Written in 1920 (five years before The Great Gatsby) The IOU remained an unpublished story until The New Yorker discovered and brought it to light in 2017. Apparently, it was meant to be published in Harper's Bazaar, but Francis Scott Fitzgerald kept it for himself and never submitted it. This is the tale of a publisher who has just hired a very successful book: the memoir of a doctor turned spiritualist, entitled The Aristocracy of the Spiritual World. After a launch of half a million copies, the publisher decides to visit the author to sign for his next book.

In this monumental novel, Maaza Mengiste investigates the erased lives of the women who participated in the war of resistance against the fascist Italian invasion that began in 1935 in her native Ethiopia. Through the characters of The shadow king -complex and full of edges, with their lights and their shadows- Mengiste reveals the serious consequences of omnipresent violence, one that leaves deep scars, just like the one in the neck of Hirut, the protagonist of this novel. The Mussolini regime, complicit in the Nazi extermination plan, has no qualms about similar violence against Ethiopians in the war of occupation. But there is also other violence that falls on the women protagonists of this story, victims of a patriarchal society in which girls are subjected to forced marriages, sexual violence within marriage is normalized and servitude is accepted without any kind of questioning. Hirut tells Ettore: Hear the dead louder and louder: We must be heard. We have to be remembered. We must be known. And with it the torrent of memory is unleashed. Let yourself be carried away by it and discover this epic novel without glory or heroes, this deed that abhors violence, this story of a war full of duels and wounds, a memory that caresses scars.

A charmingly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Art highlights the achievements and stories of 50 notable women in the arts--from well-known figures like painters Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keefe, to lesser-known names like 19th-century African American quilter Harriet Powers and Hopi-Tewa ceramic artist Nampeyo. Covering a wide array of artistic mediums, this fascinating collection also contains infographics about artistic movements throughout history, statistics about women's representation in museums, and notable works by women. Women in Art celebrates the success of the bold female creators who inspired the world and paved the way for the next generation of artists.