El arte de ser médico

Uno de los epistolarios más relevantes de la poesía chilena: las cartas de amor y pasión de Gabriela Mistral a Doris Dana. Doris, vida mía alumbra aspectos de la vida y obra de una de las más grandes intelectuales y poetas: su vida amorosa y su dimensión como lesbiana que por décadas estuvieron ocultas. Unos meses después de recibir el premio Nobel, Gabriela Mistral fue invitada a un homenaje a Barnard College, en Nueva York. En ese auditorio estaba Doris Dana, quien dos años más tarde le escribió la primera carta en torno a la devoción compartida por Thomas Mann. Desde entonces...

Es la Vida es una recolección de historias de carácter biográfico. Una narrativa que fusiona relatos verídicos con una chispa de imaginación.

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Among the adventures of Odysseus, his encounter with the mysterious goddess Circe, who transforms the hero's companions into swine, has long been a favorite of readers. The combination of magic, metamorphosis, intrigue, seduction, and danger in this episode of the Odyssey make it particularly attractive and thought-provoking, so that many later authors mention or recreate it: Apollonius of Rhodes, Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Lope, Calderon, etc. This book analyzes the tradition of the Homeric myth in western literature, from ancient Greece to the present day, with particular attention to...