La naturaleza de las penas

A French novel of the nineteenth century is based on the author's own youthful passion for an older woman and describes the amorous adventures of a young law student whose infatuation with a woman several years older than himself will last a lifetime.

Two literary geniuses coexist in the Barcelona of the sixties. Just a few meters separate their apartments, they see each other almost daily. They write about each other, share friendships, party nights, conversations about books and writing, and above all the brilliant start to their literary careers which, under the leadership of who would become one of the most powerful literary agents in the world, will lead them both to have millions of readers in all corners of the planet and to be awarded the Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize among many other recognitions. Until one day, in Mexico...

Recorriendo los temas que le apasionan y que son referenciales en el resto de su obra, en Bajo una luz más clara Helena establece un diálogo con los muertos, tan real como en la Antigüedad clásica. En el tránsito de la memoria, el recuerdo, la negación del olvido, la protagonista busca recuperar el deseo de vivir y se enfrenta con los que ya no están, pero que siguen siendo parte de su vida; en un diálogo imposible reconstruirá su infancia y el pasado de una familia perdida de manera brutal. Coedición Babel Libros, eLibros.

Fabian, a young man from a good family decides to assume an attitude of power that is common to the members of a small male chauvinistic society, in the middle of a racially mixed country. Privileged with money and power, he does not make concessions to life and decides to either take it all in or to succumb to it. His compulsive lewdness and madness, a hereditary disease common in isolated towns of some South American countries, is the theme that links this story.