La Mentira del Investigador

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe...

Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own text, the novel has won wide approval in Latin America and the United States. The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining...

"El gran pecado", de Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent. Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent fue un periodista y narrador español, perteneciente a la corriente estética del Decadentismo (1885-1940)

"Eleanor sabe que es un desastre. Hoy, sin embargo, le echará valor y se enfrentará a los pequeños asuntos cotidianos. Se duchará y se vestirá. Llevará al colegio a su hijo Timby y luego irá a sus clases de yoga y de poesía. No dirá tacos. Tomará la iniciativa y retomará el sexo con su marido, Joe. Sin embargo, antes de que pueda poner en marcha su modesto plan, ocurrirá algo: la vida. Resulta que ese día Timby decide hacerse el enfermo para poder estar con su madre. Y Joe decide contar a sus compañeros de trabajo (aunque no a su mujer) que está de vacaciones. Justo cuando...