Malas posturas

Born November 5, 1884, in London, James Elroy Flecker received his education at Uppingham and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Consular Service in 1908, was posted to Constantinople in 1910, and from 1911 to 1913 Flecker served as vice-consul at Beirut.These appointments reinforced his life-long love for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Suffering from tuberculosis, he moved to Switzerland where he died January 3, 1915. Influenced both by his classical education and by his experiences in the Orient, he published five books of poetry, The Bridge of Fire (1908), Thirty-six Poems...

La poesía de Olvido García Valdés se caracteriza por una inconfundible mezcla de forma a contracorriente, claridad expresiva y complejidad intelectual en capas o estratos que se revelan al lector en las relecturas. Esta edición recoge varias décadas de trabajo y ofrece al lector una puerta de entrada al emotivo universo poético de Olvido García Valdés, uno de los más sólidos, valiosos y reconocidos de la poesía española contemporánea.

Karl Ove leaves Norway and his wife and travels to Stockholm. The book describes the sensation of falling in love again and the long, dramatic period before he and Linda form a stable relationship. Later: the pleasures and pains of paternity, family life, and the need to write, the urgency of creation.

Inspirado por la obra de Cervantes, Sam DuChamp, un escritor mediocre de thrillers de espías, crea el personaje de Quijote, un viajante de productos farmacéuticos que vive obsesionado con la televisión y que está enamorado platónicamente de una estrella de la pequeña pantalla. Junto con su hijo (imaginario) Sancho, Quijote se embarca en una aventura a través de Estados Unidos para probar que es merecedor de la mano de su doncella, enfrentándose a todo tipo de peligros, desde ciberespías rusos hasta racistas violentos, e incluso a la amenaza del fin del mundo. Rushdie ha escrito un...