There are characters that appear in history as true rarities towards a singular protagonism. Charlatans who aim to be transcendental elements until they happen on their own merit to become temporary jokes and jokes that disappear after a short time. And yet, over the years he ...
Every political project, no matter how good or bad, always requires two basic starting supports, the popular and the economic. We already know that the breeding ground that was Europe in the interwar period led to the growth of populisms like Hitler's and his established Nazism ...
Recently I was dealing with the book The Cathedrals of Heaven, by Michel Moutot, a story about intrahistories, those of the lives of those in charge of turning New York into the first great city of skyscrapers. Straddling reality and a certain mythological event, the book tells us ...
Goya is undoubtedly an oil writer. What the Aragonese genius was able to capture in his paintings today becomes an adventure to enjoy, halfway between Don Quixote and the Bohemian Lights. It is about the History of Spain from ...
What remains for those of us who were born after the post-Civil War dictatorship: the testimonies of those who lived through it. History is what it is, a sum of official or unofficial accounts. But always with a tendentious point, sometimes necessarily vindictive and in ...
When I approached this book it was not in excess of chauvinism. I was just curious to read about something that seems to have been taught us biased. It is worth that in 1588 the Spanish Invincible Armada was defeated in its intention to invade England but, in addition to the fact that the final war was closed ...
JJ Benitez seems to have a very clear literary mission. Bring us deep personal profiles of great characters in history. Whether it is for fiction (unforgettable Trojan Horses), or it is a biography, its scrupulous documentation, its narrative thread so adjusted to the facts and the ...
Television on demand is a very recent form of entertainment that has nothing to do with television as we understood it a little over twenty years ago. Until this emergence of television as a personalized service, the Spaniards of yesteryear looked at both channels ...
That little has been written about fucking, beyond the erotic narrative, is an indisputable fact. We know little about the customs of courtship in its last instances throughout history. Taboos or romanticism turn everything into presumptions and intuitions, but the truth ...
The ideal and the real application. The illustrious thinkers transformed into fascinating ideologues whose approaches ended up feeding totalitarianisms and dictatorships. How could it be? How did different countries feed on great ideas to transform them into political deformities? Mark Lilla introduces the concept: filotiranía. A kind of magnetism that ends up attracting the ...
That artistic creation in general and literary creation in particular has largely been fed by tormented souls is unquestionable. I do not believe that there is any creator who has not searched in the deepest recesses of perdition, hopelessness, melancholy, oblivion or ...
Between archeology and fiction. Everything that is still being investigated today about Nazism, continues to derive in rivers of ink. Perhaps it is to understand the incomprehensible, or to heal deep, organic wounds. The point is that such a proliferation of fiction or non-fiction literary works ...