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"In August 1592, a sheriff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Fray Juan de la Cruz, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, who died the year before, to his final abode in Segovia. When they find him 'incorrupt and as fresh as when he died,' there is an ecstatic fervor for the friar's body...all kinds of adventures and misfortunes happen, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythological deeds. The story told by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the friar's verses, as if they had prophesied the delirium...

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"Los lectores de un ensayo vuelan a miles de metros de altura, sujetos al arnés de un lector previo que se lanza en caída libre", dice el autor al inicio de este extraordinario libro de ensayos. En un verdadero paseo por escenarios latinoamericanos y europeos, se descubrirán reveladoras observaciones sobre autores tan diversos como Akutagawa, Pizarnik, Monterroso o Juan Emar; sobre voces contemporáneas como las de Aira, Libertella, Rumazo, Hiriart, Granés o Becciú; o revisiones de grandes maestros: el caso de Borges y Cortázar frente a la novela, la disolución autobiográfica de...

La obra de Curcio es característica de gran parte de la historiografía del siglo I d.C., en cuanto que lo espectacular prima sobre lo fidedigno. Pero contribuye a iluminar varios aspectos de la biografía de Alejandro. Del escritor e historiador romano Quinto Curcio Rufo, que vivió en el siglo I d.C., sólo nos ha llegado la Historia de Alejandro Magno, biografía del general macedonio en diez libros, de los que se han perdido los dos primeros. El texto conservado empieza en el año 333 a.C., cuando Alejandro está ya en plena campaña en Asia Menor, en Frigia, y corta el célebre nudo...