La vida es corta pero ancha

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Dream of the Red Chamber provides a detailed, episodic record of life in the two branches of the wealthy, aristocratic Jia clan—the Rongguo House and the Ningguo House—who reside in two large, adjacent family compounds in the capital. Their ancestors were made Dukes and given imperial titles, and as the novel begins the two houses are among the most illustrious families in the city. One of the clan's offspring is made a Royal Consort, and a lush landscaped garden is built to...

Claudius Galenus and his life. It'll be a very long night; the future of the Empire is at stake; while waiting for a resolution, Claudius Galenus makes a balance of his own life. In spite of certain troubles, he considers himself to be privileged: he has known the love of three women, and his profession has allowed him to travel throughout the world and meet all kinds of people.

“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios, ambos considerados piezas fundamentales del universo borgiano. Entre los cuentos que aquí se reúnen hay algunos de corte policial como “La muerte y la brújula”, la historia de un detective que investiga el asesinato de un rabino; otros sobre libros imaginarios como...

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...