Argentina

En este, nuestro Libro al Viento 140, Fábulas de Tamalameque (1990), Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920-2004) cultiva por primera y única vez este género tan antiguo como exigente. Zapata Olivella, sin embargo, se diferencia tanto de sus antecesores griegos, Esopo, Fedro y Babrio, como de la tradición europea de los siglos XVII y XVIII, representada por Jean de La Fontaine, Tomás de Iriarte y Félix María Samaniego, en dos aspectos fundamentales. El primero es que cada fábula se puede leer como un capítulo de una historia más grande, de tal manera que conforman al tiempo una novela para...

A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Imagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and “emotional masseuses” try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Students are taught not to think but to employ search programs. Companies protect their intellectual property by erasing the memory of their employees. And then imagine what it would feel like to be a sweet, smart thirteen-year-old girl from...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's second novel, Indole, was published in Lima in 1891, two years after her Aves sin nido shocked the Peruvian reading public with its forthright criticism of Church and state corruption. Like Aves, Indole dramatizes the liberal reformist anticlericalism of late nineteenth century political debates, and is also set in a small Andean town surrounded by outlying haciendas. But in Indole, the town is a stable and basically happy one, where indigenous people, mestizos and landowners of Spanish descent live harmoniously in a beautiful Andean valley. Matto's journalistic...

Arriving in the kingdom of Arelon to enter a marriage of state, princess Sarene discovers that her intended has died and that she is considered his widow, leaving her a lone force against the imperial ambitions of a religious fanatic.