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Concebidas en la misma epoca, Manual de espumas pertenece a la poetica creacionista. El distanciamiento de la realidad y la valoracion de la imagen dan como resultado la culminacion de su epoca vanguardista. Versos humanos es, por el contrario, una muestra de poesia "relativa," directamente apoyada en la realidad.

Leer los cuentos de Octavio Escobar es entrar a un territorio fantástico donde todo se parece al mundo real. Los personajes hablan como la gente de hoy y viven situaciones que contienen la marca indeleble de nuestra época. Tal vez esta sea una clave para entender las razones del encanto que producen sus historias. Parecen tan reales como lo que vemos en los sueños profundos de los que nunca quisiéramos despertar y, cuando abrimos los ojos, queda en el alma la sensación de haber vivido intensamente la vida de los otros.

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...

Bert Amandale is a horror novelist; he lives in Provence with his wife and teenage daughter. His best friend, Chucks Basil -a rock star- decides to move to Provence, and things start to get complicated, due to Chucks' dark past and his difficult relationship with Bert's wife. This book's frantic, murky plot renders it a masterful work of psychological intrigue.