Dones que no perdonen

In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...

Historias de Ficción y reales del escritor Juan Manuel González Sánchez así como poemas y cultura de la mente de Juan Manuel González Sánchez

Waugh begins his autobiographical story with his inheritance, writing of the energetic, literary, and sometimes eccentric men and women who contributed to his genius. His childhood was for the most part warm, bright and serene, but he remembers the Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed as somewhat painful. His life at Oxford was essentially a catalogue of friendship, an exclusive world he recalls with elegant wit and precision. Finally, he closes with his experiences as a master at a preparatory school in North Wales which inspired his work Decline and Fall. Waugh comienza su relato ...

El lado solitario del río es un libro que explora los matices más duros de la soledad y el desamor: esos que nacen cuando se despierta en la conciencia la certeza de que todo lo vivido fue tan sólo un largo desencuentro. O lo que sería más triste aún, la revelación de que el otro, el amado, el íntimo, jamás dejó de ser un completo desconocido. La prosa retórica y poética de Fabio Wasserman elude la confesión y rechaza la autocompasión y el lamento. Avanza sobre los detalles y los objetos transformando lo que debería ser ordinario o doméstico en un susurrado ensueño acuoso y...