Crónicas inexplicables

December, 2004. Gumaro de Dios kills the time with El Peln. The heat is suffocating, the mosquitoes hum. The afternoon breaks out and sometime in the night a voice whispers in the Cannibal's ear. The residents of the Mayan Riviera find out about it at dawn. The rumor that travels across the streets freezes blood and skin of one person after another. He scratched the bones and even used the viscera, with which he prepared an exquisite broth. The trial is succinct. Nobody wants to listen to the Cannibal. He is a butcher, a dangerous criminal, a repellent being. Alejandro Almazn approaches...

Para lograr un objetivo y tener éxito se deben seguir dterminados pasos. Hasta los pájaros siguen instrucciones para volar y evitar caerse y lastimarse. Acompaña a Guz en su afanosa pero gratifacante empresa de aprender a volar.

En múltiples viajes y estancias en las Antillas, México y Cuba, a lo largo de toda la primera mitad del siglo, Gabriela Mistral, la pluma chilena más latinoamericana, bebió del acervo martiano toda su intuición liberacionista y todo su verbo originario. Es lo que contiene este volumen: parte importante de lo que Gabriela escribió sobre el poeta, sobre su palabra educadora, sobre su moral irreductible, sobre sus intuiciones políticas, a veces en cartas, a veces en versos, a veces en prosa o en ensayos, pero siempre con devoción fraternal, siempre con agudas e iluminadas deliberaciones, ...

Dan Brown’s books come to life in the pages of this guide. The characters of The Da Vinci Code in Paris, London and Roslin, Angels and Demons in Rome and in Seville, reveal to us where they lived their most exciting moments, and those of greater tension. More than one hundred full color photographs, excellent and relevant historical data, recommendations for the trip, a journey through the scenery, numerous anecdotes ?all the essentials to start a new concept of trip: the suspense routes.

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...