La Filial

In 1820 Andrea Carbayo wrote her memoir to record the adventures that led her to the place where she is, haunted by the intransigence of the inquisitor Valdés. Illustrated, intellectual, social gathering, writer, translator, teacher, feminist, Andrea herself was a forerunner in many aspects, without this preventing her from being erased from history, like so many other women in all times and places. In 2021, when 210 years have passed since the death of the Gijon minister and hero Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the publication of this manuscript and the unexpected discovery of a secret...

Vladimir Maiakovski, poeta, dramaturgo y pintor ruso, apoyó la revolución y luchó por un arte que fuera construcción de vida y expresión del socialismo. En ambos poemarios, el amor no correspondido, la pena de amor, lleva a la locura ("Nube en pantalones") o al suicidio ("Flauta vertebral").

Inglaterra, siglo XII. En una época turbulenta, la asombrosa peripecia de una mujer que persigue un sueño, ser la primera forjadora de espadas de la historia en un mundo marcado por las tradiciones, las intrigas, la dureza y las pasiones. La joven Ellen posee una extraordinaria habilidad para el arte de la forja y una firme voluntad para aprender un oficio que, en una Edad Media dominada por las más rígidas tradiciones, sabe que le está prohibido. Pero su vida está llamada a dar un vuelco cuando descubre las infidelidades de su madre con un caballero del poblado y se ve obligada a huir...

Unified by an acidic humor, the stories in this collection function as a mirror of a reality that, at first glance, may seem deformed. An overweight man whose wife puts him on a diet of cocaine so that he loses weight, a teenager with Down syndrome who becomes a star keyboardist in a failed punk band, and a black pig with the airs of a diva who dictates wonderful romance novels to its perturbed owner are some of the characters that inhabit Carlos Velázquez’s deranged world. With language that breaks all molds and falls more in line with oral tradition, this book of short stories...