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Yves Saint Laurent (1936 2008) is credited with reviving French haute couture in the 1960s, with making ready-to-wear reputable, and with using non-European cultural references. In addition to the kaleidoscope of images in this book, a coterie of tastemakers have supplied listings that encompass YSL s style inspirations (C is for Costumes, as exemplified by the Russian theme of the famed autumn-winter 1976 77 collection; T is for Tuxedo, which the designer initially referenced with his 1965 Le Smoking ) and important facets of his life (J is for Jardin Majorelle, the garden of the couturier s paradisiacal retreat in Marrakech; R is for Rive Gauche, the bohemian, chic neighbourhood of Paris where the YSL boutique is situated and also the name of the house s famous perfume launched in 1970). This distillation and celebration of the designer s life reveals the inner world of a twentieth-century master.

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Julián Rodríguez nació en Ceclavín, Cáceres, en agosto de 1968. Editó y dirigió la revista de arte y estética Sub rosa a principios de los años 90. Actualmente es director artístico de la galería de arte Casa sin fin y director literario de la editorial Periférica. Su obra ha sido publicada en diferentes sellos del Grupo Random House Mondadori, tanto en trade como en bolsillo. Se divide en varios bloques:- Antecedentes (2010), que reúne sus relatos y poemas hasta el año 2000.- Las novelas Lo improbable (2001), Ninguna necesidad (2006; Premio Ojo Crítico de Narrativa; elegida por los críticos del diario El País como uno de los mejores libros del año) y el volumen con tres novelas cortas La sombra y la penumbra (2002). Es decir, sus textos de ficción.- Y los textos de ?no ficción? del ciclo autobiográfico en marcha, del que ya prepara una nueva entrega, Piezas de resistencia: Unas vacaciones baratas en la miseria de los demás (2004; Premio Nuevo Talento FNAC) y Cultivos (2008

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A. E. Housman (1859-1936) fue uno de los grandes poetas menores de la lírica inglesa del siglo XX. Autor de sólo dos libros publicados en vida, A Shropshire Lady y Last Poems, a los que se añadió un tercero póstumo, More Poems, su personalidad huidiza y huraña no impidió que se convirtiera en una influencia reconocida por algunos de los más célebres poetas ingleses como Auden. Fue catedrático de Latín de la Universidad de Cambridge. En 1933 dio forma a su poética en una conferencia titulada The Name and Nature of Poetry. Juan Bonilla (Jerez, 1966) ha traducido Las horas detenidas de Ramón Solana, (Pre-Textos, 1999), Infancia de J. M. Coetzee (Mondadori, 2002) y Melville de Andrea Delbanco (Seix-Barral, 2006).

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Literatura MondadoriNi siquiera estoy seguro de las diferencias entre ficción y no ficción, y tampoco me preocupan [...]. Aunque, bueno, esperen un momento: la verdad es que ambos géneros dan miedo, los dos dan la sensación de ejecutarse sobre la cuerda floja y con un abismo bajo los pies; son los abismos los que son distintos. El abismo de la narrativa es el silencio, la nada. Mientras que el abismo del ensayo es el Ruido Total, la estática chisporroteante que producen todas las cosas y experiencias particulares [...].En cuerpo y en lo otro reúne quince ensayos de David Foster Wallace publicados por primera vez en España que ponen de manifiesto la inagotable curiosidad y la tremenda versatilidad lingüística del autor de La broma infinita.La belleza del juego de Roger Federer y la apoteósica final de Wimbledon de 2006 que disputó contra Rafa Nadal, considerada por muchos el mejor partido de la historia del tenis; el auge del "Porno de Efe

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La nueva novela de Philip Roth es una historia íntima y universal sobre la pérdida, el arrepentimiento y el estoicismo.La nueva novela de Philip Roth es una historia íntima y universal sobre la pérdida, el arrepentimiento y el estoicismo. El autor de La conjura contra América (Literatura Mondadori, 2005) desvía ahora su atención hacia la lucha crónica de un hombre contra la mortalidad. El destino del protagonista de la novela comienza con la primera y abrumadora confrontación con la muerte en las idílicas playas de sus veranos infantiles, pasando por los problemas familiares y los logros profesionales en su edad adulta, hasta llegar a su vejez, momento en el que se siente desgarrado al comprobar el deterioro de sus contemporáneos y el suyo propio. Creativo publicitario de éxito con una agencia de publicidad en Nueva York, el protagonista es padre de dos hijos de un primer matrimonio, que lo desprecian, y de una hija de un segundo matrimonio, que lo adora, además del amado herman

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The village of Hora is a magical place that blurs the boundaries between a mythical past and the present. It is here that Costantino Avati grows alongside his impetuous and melancholic father, Francesco; his mother, Elena, who hides a secret torment; his two sisters, Orlandina and Lucrezia; and his grandfather Lissandro, the last custodian of an era and a world that are disappearing. As Costantino feels the pangs of first love with the intriguing Roman Isabella, he also discovers the romantic allure of his own village and its rich cultural heritage. In his first novel, acclaimed author Carmine Abate transforms his Italo-Albanian (Arbëresh) hometown of Carfizzi, Calabria, into a magical realist wonderland that rivals Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo. Inspired by the oral traditions of the old Albanian bards and incorporating the poetic local dialect, The Round Dance is a unique piece of multicultural literature that was named by the publishing house Mondadori as one of the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.

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The village of Hora is a magical place that blurs the boundaries between a mythical past and the present. It is here that Costantino Avati grows alongside his impetuous and melancholic father, Francesco; his mother, Elena, who hides a secret torment; his two sisters, Orlandina and Lucrezia; and his grandfather Lissandro, the last custodian of an era and a world that are disappearing. As Costantino feels the pangs of first love with the intriguing Roman Isabella, he also discovers the romantic allure of his own village and its rich cultural heritage. In his first novel, acclaimed author Carmine Abate transforms his Italo-Albanian (Arbëresh) hometown of Carfizzi, Calabria, into a magical realist wonderland that rivals Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo. Inspired by the oral traditions of the old Albanian bards and incorporating the poetic local dialect, The Round Dance is a unique piece of multicultural literature that was named by the publishing house Mondadori as one of the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.

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An almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, stupidly ambitious yet loving too—she is a mass of confusion. She’s in a bleak space, lit with the hard clarity of a Pasolini film. Her family is no help: her father is largely absent; her mother is miserable; her sister’s unhappily promiscuous; her brothers are in a separate masculine world. Only her cousin Nini seems to see her. She falls into disgrace and then “marries up,” but without any joy, blind to what was beautiful right before her own eyes. The Road to the City was Ginzburg’s very first work, originally published under a pseudonym. “I think it might be her best book,” her translator Gini Alhadeff remarked: “And apparently she thought so, too, at the end of her life, when assembling a complete anthology of her work for Mondadori.

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Encuadernación: CartonéColección: Literatura MondadoriNo tendré más miedo, no tendré más miedo, no tendré más miedo. Estas son las primeras palabras que repite el protagonista de esta original obra. En un principio, parece que no es más que un niño de doce años que escribe un diario porque tiene miedo a su madre, a los espejos, a las hormigas... pero su temor más grande es que muera Violette, la mujer que lo ha cuidado desde que murió su padre. Desgraciadamente, a Violette no le queda mucho tiempo y él se quedará solo con una madre que nunca lo ha querido.Hasta aquí no parece que el suyo sea diferente a cualquier otro diario. Sin embargo, sus intenciones van mucho más allá de la mera recopilación de estados psíquicos: quiere escribir acerca de su cuerpo y de todos aquellos descubrimientos que experimenta a través de este. Nada escapa a su curiosidad. Por eso, no hay pudor en él sino descubrimiento y naturalidad. No hay perjuicios sino la firme voluntad de hablar del desperta

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Mexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused over $130 billion into Mexico's economy, now the country's single largest source of income. Corruption and graft infiltrate all levels of government. Entire towns have become ungovernable, and of every 100 people killed, Mexican police now only investigate approximately 5 eases. But the market is booming: In 2009, more people in the United States bought recreational drugs than ever before. In 2009, the United Nations reported that some $350 billion in drug money had been successfully laundered into the global banking system the prior year, saving it from collapse. How does an "extra" $350 billion in the global economy affect the murder rate in Mexico? To get the story and connect the dogs, acclaimed journalist John Gibler travels across Mexico and slips behind the frontlines to talk with people who live in towns under assault: newspaper reporters and crime-beat photographers, funeral parlor workers, convicted drug traffickers, government officials, cab drivers and others who find themselves living on the lawless frontiers of the drug war. Gibler tells hair-raising stories of wild street battles, kidnappings, narrow escapes, politicians on the take, and the ordinary people who fight for justice as they seek solutions to the crisis that is tearing Mexico apart. Fast-paced and urgent, To Die in Mexico is an extraordinary look inside the raging drug war, and its global implications. John Gibler is a writer based in Mexico and California, the author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (City Lights Books, 2009), and a contributor to Pais de muertos: Cronicas contra la impunidad (Random House Mondadori, 2011). He is a correspondent for KPFA in San Francisco and has published in magazines in the United States and Mexico, including Left Turn, Z Magazine, Earth Island Journal, ColorLines, Race, Poverty, and the Environment Fifth Estate, New Politics, In These Times, Yes! Magazine, Contralinea, and Milenio Semanal. "Gibler's front-line reportage coupled with first-rate analysis gives an uncommonly vivid and nuanced picture of a society riddled and enervated by corruption, shootouts, and raids, where murder is the 'most popular method of conflict resolution.' ...At great personal risk, the author unearths stories the mainstream media doesn't-or is it too afraid-to cover, and gives voice to those who have been silenced or whose stories have been forgotten." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "Gibler argues passionately to undercut this 'case study in failure.' The drug barons are only getting richer, the murders mount and the police and military repression expand as 'illegality increases the value of the commodity.' With legality, both U.S. and Mexican society could address real issues of substance abuse through education and public-health initiatives. A visceral, immediate and reasonable argument." -Kirkus Reviews "Gibler provides a fascinating and detailed insight into the history of both drug use in the US and the 'war on drugs' unleashed by Ronald Reagan through the very plausible -- but radical -- lens of social control...Throughout this short but powerful book, Gibler accompanies journalists riding the grim carousel of death on Mexico's streets, exploring the realities of a profession under siege in states such as Sinaloa and just how they cover the drugs war." -Gavin O'Toole, The Latin American Review of Books

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