Poética

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

Una fascinante novela sobre los males de la sociedad después de un evento apocalíptico. Will H. Corral, World Literature Toda

Fue Plutarco (46 d C - 120 d C), que vivi largo y tendido, quien acun la frase Vidas paralelas como ttulo y como lema - y como una visin de la historia. Vidas para leerlas es, desde el ttulo, una variacin pardica sobre un tema de Plutarco, el primer historiador que bas sus historias en el chisme de saln y los rumores de la corte. Las vidas hechas paralelas por Plutarco han adquirido no slo popularidad (todava se lee a dos mil aos de su muerte) sino que han sido modelo para Shakespeare en su poesa dramtica, han servido para hacer cine (Julio Csar, Antonio y Cleopatra) y todava interesan estas...

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...