Burroughs y Kerouac

Excerpt from Dona Perfecta: Novela Espanola Contemporanea The two literary genre: in which Spaniards have most excelled are the drama and the novel. Indeed, outside of these two forms, it may be said that no Spaniard has won a literary success of the first order. Thus, in the past six cen turies there have been many Spanish poets of real worth; and yet in the list of the world's supreme poets no Spanish name appears. Among the world's great philosophers Spain has no representative, though she has had thinkers of genuine power. She has had no moralist, or historian, or political writer, or...

Para Lorenzo Silva recorrer Marruecos es hacer realidad un sueño de infancia y, a la vez, adentrarse en el impresionante escenario de la aventura bélica de su abuelo, combatiente de a pie en la llamada guerra de Africa. A lo largo de ocho jornadas, y con la compañía de su hermano y un amigo, el escritor explora el interior del país para descubrir –y descubrirnos- la áspera región del Rif y la zona no menos agreste del Yebala, y de paso lugares como Melilla, Annual, Alhucemas, Xauen, Larache, Alcazarseguer, Tánger, Fez, la antigua ciudad romana de Volúbilis o Rabat. También el...

Born from a blog, and so sprinkled with references to real persons and facts, this first novel of Jorge Harmodio is a tale of smoke and mirrors about love and disaffection. Ninety-nine percent of our sentimental relationships fails. Every time we start one we believe that "this is the good one," but as time goes by (days, years), we realize that it was not so, and that we'll have a bad time (hours, years) after walking away from it. If you add to the breakup a deviated nassal septum surgery, an uncontrollable fear to rodents, and an obsession for becoming a novelist, shake it well and spill...

Escocia, siglo xv. Clarion McLeod acude al castillo de Coill para reencontrarse con Daimh, su antiguo compañero de armas y laird del clan Mackenzie. Cuando la mujer de Daimh, Aila, abraza a Clarion para saludarlo, tiene una visión en la que este tendrá que ayudar a una dama inglesa que está huyendo. Elinor Multon, hermana de Brayton, barón de la hacienda inglesa de Burgh by Sands, se ve forzada a escapar de las garras del terrible padre Dagger, quien la desea desde siempre y que, al no conseguirla como anhela, la acusa de brujería. La noble inglesa acaba en tierras escocesas, donde el...