The musical career, solid-body experiments, multitrack recording and legacy of Les Paul, the guitarist-inventor who changed how records are performed and built.
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The transnational life, historical research, major novels and legacy of Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman elected to the French Academy.
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The Andalusian roots, poetry, theatre, La Barraca project, New York crisis and legacy of Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War.
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The Prague life, insurance work, major fiction and legacy of Franz Kafka, whose precise prose made opaque authority and transformed identity permanently unsettling.
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The life, post-war poetry, major books and legacy of Luis Rosales, the Spanish poet who transformed domestic memory into existential meditation.
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The life, social history, Andean research and critical legacy of Alberto Flores Galindo, author of In Search of an Inca and a major Peruvian public intellectual.
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The transnational life, crime fiction, historical investigation and developing legacy of Peruvian writer Santiago Roncagliolo, winner of the 2006 Alfaguara Prize.
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A critical history of the nude from antiquity and academic study to modernism, photography, performance and debates about gender, consent and representation.
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The life, structural experiments, major Barcelona buildings and legacy of Antoni Gaudi, whose architecture integrated geometry, craft, light and symbolism.
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