La vida ante sí

Ana María de la Fuente Suárez is the author of On Beauty. She writes about the relationship between art and daily life, focusing on how people perceive the world around them. Her work is known for its clear and direct approach to the study of aesthetics.

Romain Gary (21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice (once under a pseudonym). He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg. Over the course of his career Gary wrote more than 30 novels, and became one of...