Canto a las selvas

A contemptible writer writes his masterpiece, a screenplay for Soviet Hollywood in a futuristic past in which Argentina and a good portion of the world have joined the USSR against the rest of the world: the capitalist countries with New York as their capital city. In this hypothetical socialist Argentina the betrayals are the same ones they have always been: political in appearance, but quite human in reality, more tied to people’s characters than to the rules that they use to try to organize themselves. Un escritor despreciable escribe la obra de su vida, un guión cinematográfico para...

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A fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX, en Europa oriental, una corte de personajes movidos por la curiosidad, la ambición, el ocio o el deseo atraviesan un mundo extravagante y esotérico, donde la magia aún ocupa el lugar de la ciencia. Desde Lenin que se interna en un convento en busca de la fórmula para crear un partido revolucionario, pasando por Stendhal que espera en Riga su turno para someterse a una cirugía estética, hasta Alejandro Magno, el modelo imaginario en que se basaron los narradores indios y persas para concebir la historia central de Las mil y una noches. De la...

A brilliant commentary on societal expectations, this novel about of the fortunes and misfortunes of sisters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret Dashwood after the death of their beloved father offers a compelling picture of life in the English countryside and of women's role in society at the beginning of the 19th century.