Italia en la vida y obra de Quevedo

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Con la intencion de ofrecer variedad tematica y formal, esta antologia combina cuentos breves, fragmentos de narraciones mas largas, recuerdos biograficos, anecdotas e incluso poemas. Autores tan disimiles como Pavic y Paul Auster, Moravia y Dylan Thomas, Cortazar y Arreola se dan cita para dar por cierta la definicion de Cabrera Infante: "Literatura es todo lo que se lea como tal."

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

La literatura «religiosa» vende. Por eso cada año se publican cientos de libros, novelas, ensayos y relatos que tienen que ver con lo religioso en sentido amplio: misterio, fantasía, "thriller" con personajes sobrenaturales o con secretos de la Biblia o del Vaticano, magia, seres mitológicos, personas con poderes, temas de ocultismo, profecías, escenas apocalípticas relacionadas con el fin del mundo o desastres ecológicos. Todo lo que esté relacionado con lo misterioso, mágico, mitológico y religioso vende mucho. La gente lo compra, lo lee y más tarde muchos de esos temas aparecen ...