Amor primero

Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own text, the novel has won wide approval in Latin America and the United States. The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining...

Manuela Paris returns to his village on the Roman coast for Christmas. While he waits to find out if he is to be declared fit for service again, he meets Mattia, the mysterious, lone guest of the Hotel Bellavista. Mattia also lives in the limbo of a great secret. Together they will be able to make amends and accept that life deserves to be lived.

La magia del amor podría salvarla, o destruirlos a los dos. el brutal asesinato de su benefactor dejó a Lily en la más absoluta miseria y con la responsabilidad de sacar a sus tres hijos adelante. Desesperada, buscó ayuda en la casa del primo de su promet

Rafael Gómez de Tudanca, autor del «Estudio preliminar» de esta obra perteneciente a la colección de Cantabria 4 Estaciones, intenta algunas valoraciones provisionales y al tanteo, primordialmente para justificar la atribución de autoría de un texto autógrafo pero sin firmar. Un texto que se mantuvo durante cincuenta y dos años retirado, quizás como impublicable o menospreciado por el propio autor, pero no destruido o desalojado de su casa.