La Noche de la Diablada

This book is a tribute to the neighborhoods, a concrete landscape in which the author finds himself torn; compelling stories that make unforgettable his sentimental education. Personal memory and urgent chronicles, with humor and poetry, this book is a search of roots that the author, will only find in a handful of words, no longer in use, of his mothers.

Esta antología reúne cinco relatos de Henry James dedicados a artistas: "La madona del futuro", "El mentiroso", "Lo auténtico", "La pátina del tiempo" y "El holbein de Beldonald". En ellos, su autor examina con detenimiento, perspicacia y un estilo inimitable la figura del creador, así como el conflicto entre artista y sociedad, que, en sus propias palabras, se contaba entre "la media docena de grandes motivos básicos" de la literatura.

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...

Una misteriosa PANDEMIA se esparce por el mundo, un transatlántico entra en la rada de Valparaíso, un turista cae muerto en las calles del puerto y se levanta para morder a los bomberos que le dan los primeros auxilios. EL APOCALIPSIS ZOMBI se esparce lento, rampante y silencioso, explotando en las narices de las autoridades que no alcanzan a declarar estado de emergencia. EN MEDIO DEL CAOS, Javier, un escolar de catorce años, intentará llegar a su hogar poniendo en práctica en plan de contingencia Zombi, trabajando y perfeccionando durante los recreos con Weipin, su mejor amigo. Al otro ...