“The Ark was no mere precious object but shows up in several narratives as possessing extraordinary powers. It was somehow instrumental in bringing down Jericho’s walls, proved fatal to its keepers upon capture, and was a source of painful hemorrhoids and a plague of mice to its Philistine captors.”
A most peculiar book; the inherent strangeness of the Bible
KRISTIN SWENSON
Oxford University Press, 2021
“Among the authors he condemned to the flames were obvious targets like Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Arnold and Stephan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. But others were less understandable: why should they burn Emil and the detectives, for instance, or Bambi, simply because their authors, Eric Kästner and Felix Salten respectively, were deemed unacceptable?”
The devil’s disciples; the lives and times of Hitler’s inner circle
ANTHONY READ
Pimlico, 2004
923 págs.
“Otra de sus características inherentes, quizá debida a su trasfondo caucasiano, era su espíritu profundamente rencoroso, su memoria infalible para retener cualquier insulto o injuria, su determinación implacable a cobrarse venganza, no importa cuántos años pudiesen haber transcurrido. Una de las anécdotas mejor conocidas sobre Stalin nos la cuenta Serebriákov. Encontrándose un grupo de camaradas charlando acerca de la idea que tenía cada uno sobre lo que podría ser un día perfecto, Stalin dijo: “La mía es poder planificar una venganza artística sobre un enemigo, luego llevarla a cabo con suma perfección, y después irme a casa y meterme pacíficamente en la cama”.
Hitler y Stalin; vidas paralelas
ALAN BULLOCK
Kailas 2016 (publicado originalmente en 1992)
1599 págs.
Traducción de Pedro Gálvez
“Now, I’ve always heard that one of the most important things in life is to be confortable in one’s own skin. Well, I may have come to the not illogical conclusion that the more skin you have, the more confort you’ll feel! Presumably you’ve heard of making a mountain out of a molehill? Well, that one fussy molehill was now this eternally black-clad mountain. And, if my alleged resemblance to Elton John turns out to be a problem for anyone out there, all I can really say (politely and in a sing-song voice) is “blow my big bovine, tiny dancer cock!” Or you could just skip the whole thing – your choice”.
Shockaholic
CARRIE FISHER
Simon & Schuster, 2011
156 págs.
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