El irresistible atractivo de unas piernas largas

(Françoise Sagan - Bertolt Brecht - Saint-Exupéry - Simone de Beauvoir - Paul Valéry - Saint-John Perse). Trad. esp. de V. GARCÍA YEBRA.

Granta en Espanol 11, Los Mejores Narradores Jovenes en Espanol, is being published in transaltion the UK and the US as Granta 113 Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists. It will showcase the work of 22 promising new writers and is eagerly anticipated, as Granta's previous Best Young Novelist issues have been startlingly accurate, calling out the work of writers from Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith. Available here in the states in the original Spanish are works of fiction from our 22 outstanding young writers: 1. Andrés Barba, Spain 2. Oliveiro Coelho, Argentina 3....

Until recently, Zvi was a happily married seventy-year-old engineer with no worrisome ailments beyond those of age. His road projects connected one place to another and opened tunnels of light deep in the mountains. But lately he forgets some names. A visit to the neurologist confirms it: first signs of his decline. Zvi, encouraged by his wife and the specialist, will not give up. His latest work will reveal to you one of the advantages of aging: with memory loss, it increases our ability to understand complex ideas, what is hidden under the surface of all things. From the wonderful pen of...

Pnin está considerada como «la más deliciosa de las novelas de Nabokov» (G. M. Hyde), «la más inmediatamente atractiva» (Laurie Clancy) y, posiblemente, la más divertida de toda su obra, tan rebosante de humor. Su protagonista es el profesor Pnin, un ruso de la emigración que se gana la vida dando clases a media docena escasa de alumnos desganados que acuden a su aula como quien va a ver una película de Buster Keaton. Pero los verdaderos enemigos del inefable e infeliz Pnin son los extraños artilugios de la modernidad: coches, electrodomésticos y demás máquinas que, al menos a...