Estación Berlín

«No sé si tendría valor para esa clase de regreso a mí mismo.» El desastre de Chiang Mai durante un viaje a Tailandia fue la azarosa oportunidad para que Agustín Fernández Mallo volcara en un relato tripartito sus experiencias con esa cosa tan extraña llamada Mundo. Nocilla Lab es el cierre lógico y multidisciplinar del Proyecto Nocilla. Una road movie autorreferencial y visionaria, inquietante, donde un hombre y una mujer buscan poner en marcha el Proyecto, una excusa para hurgar en sus sueños y en su propia relación. Un certero relato del arte de crear, de escribir, de imaginar....

Constructed like a hall of mirrors, the plot could be that of a thriller. Thanks to his knowledge of the Russian language, a young man finds a job as a private teacher in the house of one of the Russian oligarchs on the Costa del Sol. He soon realises that the family is hiding for a reason that somehow involves the most incredible diamonds he has ever seen. José Manuel Prieto's visual imagery, verbal opulence and literary rigour place him in a league of his own among recent Latin American literature.

Jonathan, a young Argentine professional, lives a splendid life as a financial consultant, with an apartment in an excellent part of town, a fancy set of wheels, the finest brand-name clothes, and the respect and envy of the neighborhood, but when a crisis destroys everything, he goes back to step one without any apparent hope for a future.

This work, drawn from a symposium held at the University of Texas, El Paso, in March, 1992, brings together scholars from all over North America, as well as other parts of the world, to study diverse aspects of the comedia from an intellectual, academic perspective. Seven different aspects of the comedia are examined in detail: Spain and the New World; Staging the Comedia: Then and Now; Feminist and Gender Studies; Critical Approaches: From Philosophy to Psychology; Themes, Myths and Archetypes; The Comedia in History; The Text; and Authenticating and Editing. The variety and depth of these...