La casa del azúcar

Los seres divinos se pasean por la ciudad, se burlan de lo humano y lo manipulan. Crónica de la deconstrucción del hombre como Dios.

"Julio Cortazar y el hombre nuevo" is a critical interpretation that spans the whole works of Julio Cortazar. Avoiding simplifications or anecdotic trivia the author has carefully reviewed the writer's production, verifying the multiplicity of its discourse and the connecting lines that underlie, granting it a most uncommon unicity and coherence. This book had its startpoint more than thirty years ago, when Graciela Maturo began her studies on Rayuela and became specially interested about Cortazar's literary beginnings. Her critical and interpretative essay, published in 1968, quickly became...

Ellie Mack is fifteen years old, she is the perfect daughter, the youngest of the family, her classmates adore her, her teachers admire her. But one day, during a summer vacation... she disappears. Her mother, Laurel Mack, refuses to believe the version that her daughter has left of her own free will and sets out to find her. Misfortune crumbles her world, her marriage ends and the clues to find her daughter are increasingly scarce. Ten years later, Laurel meets Floyd by chance and it seems that her life makes sense again, until she meets his daughters. And Poppy, the youngest, returns her to ...

Dos seminaristas que, en el último momento para su ordenación, su confesor y guía espiritual descubre que no creen en Dios, sino que tienen una fe cultural. La diócesis decide remitirlos a un anciano monseñor, que vivía sus últimos días en un asilo, en absoluta santidad, para que intentara inculcarles la fe o conducirlos a un buen camino. El monseñor Santiago Alonzo, utilizando el método de la parábola que usó Jesucristo con los apóstoles, contándoles pequeñas historias para reflexión del sentido de la vida, procuraría que los dos seminaristas encontraran un buen camino. El...