Contando ovejas y desvelos

Gilbert K. Chesterton, el genial escritor inglés entre cuyos méritos se encuentra la creación del inmortal Padre Brown, escribió la desconcertante novela El hombre vivo en 1912. El hombre vivo narra el caso de Innocent Smith, un hombre común, aunque algo extraño, cuya visión del mundo es pura y no está manchada por el cinismo. Su encanto infantil seduce a la señora Mary Gray, inquilina de la Casa Beacon, y la convence para que se case con él. El resto de los huéspedes de la pensión opinan que la señora Gray ha perdido la cabeza, pues apenas conoce al señor Smith, por lo que...

In Gronjor, a world that's half light and half shadow, a group of hunters traverse the untamed dark side. They're headed towards the labyrinth, the most savage zone on the planet, populated by wild animals that work to throw center-seekers off their path. Gronjor's delicate equilibrium depends on this cruel process of selection controlled by the sorcerer Milosh. There's little cause for hope, except for a prophecy that speaks of an imminent change...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Este estudio, ampliamente documentado, somete la obra del poeta José María Heredia (1803-1839) a una rigurosa relectura, tomando como punto de partida la muy comentada "melancolicidad" de este autor cubano.