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Didion & Babitz Spanish Edition) - by Lili Anolik (Paperback)

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  • Una ciudad, dos miradas y una rivalidad que marcó época: un retrato adictivo de dos escritoras insuperables que definieron el alma de Los Ángeles de los años setenta.
  • About the Author: Lili Anolik es redactora en Vanity Fair.
  • 440 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts

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Una ciudad, dos miradas y una rivalidad que marcó época: un retrato adictivo de dos escritoras insuperables que definieron el alma de Los Ángeles de los años setenta.

«Lili Anolik no vacila nunca: frase a frase, página a página, hace justicia a Joan y a Eve, y explica por qué las mujeres que dicen su verdad siempre serán dinamita social. Este libro es magia. Es lo que siempre necesité». -Lena Dunham «El libro más adictivo del año. Me fue imposible soltarlo». -Bret Easton Ellis

Hollywood, 1967-1971: años de vértigo y exceso donde artistas, estrellas de cine, músicos y camellos compartían escenarios y ambiciones. En el centro de ese torbellino, dos escritoras marcaron el pulso de una época: Eve Babitz, ahijada de Igor Stravinsky, musa insolente que posó desnuda frente a Marcel Duchamp y fue amante de Jim Morrison, y Joan Didion, un misterio tras sus gafas oscuras y su expresión impenetrable. Entre ambas se forjó una relación compleja, fascinante y peligrosa: amistad, rivalidad, espejo y abismo.

Con una prosa incisiva y vibrante, Lili Anolik reconstruye la relación entre dos mujeres que cambiaron la manera de ver Los Ángeles y de entender la escritura. El resultado es una carta de amor en forma de doble biografía. El modo más original y electrizante de acceder a los universos literarios de Didion y Babitz, y de abrir, como quien fuerza un cajón cerrado con candado, la intimidad de Didion, para revelar al fin el enigma que envuelve su figura.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more!

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this "vivid, engrossing" (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) revealing the mutual attractions--and antagonisms--of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.

Could you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan? --Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972

Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin, and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies and centered on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood.

7406 Franklin Avenue, a combination salon-hotbed-living end where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock 'n' rollers, and drug trash. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression; an enigma inside her storied marriage to John Gregory Dunne, their union as tortured as it was enduring. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the breaking and then the remaking--and thus the true making--of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity.

Didion, in spite of her confessional style, is so little known or understood. She's remained opaque, elusive. Until now.

With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence, and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters--letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you don't read them so much as breathe them--as the key to unlocking Didion. And "what the book makes clear is that Didion and Babitz were more alike than either would have liked to admit" (Time).



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La crítica ha dicho:


«Entonces ¿eres una Joan o eres una Eve? Esa será la pregunta que todos se harán este año».

Literary Hub

«La suya fue una relación casi shakespeariana, llena de deseo, celos y ambivalencia. Impecablemente investigado y trenzado en oro».

The Times

«La investigación y las fuentes de Anolik no tienen parangón; entrevistó a tantas personas del entorno --incluida la propia Babitz-- q ue gran parte del libro es discurso directo: gente brillante simplemente hablándote... Un libro extraordinario».

The Telegraph

«"Odio las reuniones. Prefiero enterarme de todo por los chismes", decía Babitz. Si esa frase te arranca una sonrisa de aprobación, disfrutarás este fascinante fragmento de historia».

The Independent

«Anolik toma a dos musas literarias que construyeron una armadura de mitología para protegerse --Didion, a través del trabajo; Babitz, a través de la reputación-- y demuestra con convicción que tenían mucho más en común de lo que cualquiera de las dos habría admitid o».

Times Literary Supplement




About the Author



Lili Anolik es redactora en Vanity Fair. Sus textos también han aparecido en Harper's, Esquire y The Paris Review. Es autora del best seller Hollywood's Eve y creadora de uno de los pódcast más escuchados en USA.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 5.29 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 440
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Format: Paperback
Author: Lili Anolik
Language: Spanish
Street Date: May 19, 2026
TCIN: 1007867321
UPC: 9788439746034
Item Number (DPCI): 247-44-6216
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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