Rottingdean: Dos siglos, dos historias, dos mujeres. Separadas por el tiempo, unidas por un destino maldito

El Satiricón, cuya autoría no está del todo clara, se considera una de las primeras novelas de la literatura mundial, una obra totalmente nueva y original para la época en la que se reconocen rasgos de diferentes géneros literarios sin que ninguno de ellos destaque especialmente. El libro narra las peripecias de dos jóvenes, Encolpio y Ascilto, y del joven amante del primero, el adolescente Gitón, durante la etapa inicial del Imperio romano (antes del final del siglo I d.C.). Encolpio ha sido castigado por el dios Príapo causándole impotencia sexual, una situación que aprovecha...

The supernatural appeal of Stoker's Dracula continues to hold readers spellbound more than a century after its initial publication. This work by Bajarlía is an important precedent in that concerning the study of vampirism. Through forceful and direct language, he analyzes Stoker's vampire-triad. This essay includes four additional, unpublished chapters that serve as a crucial part to this retelling of a classic.

El Reality Show de los politicos (The Politicians' Reality Show) is an ingenious novel that denounces the corruption of politicians, leaders, and government officials in Latin American countries. In this novel, a revolutionary commander attacks the Congress of the National Assembly in an imaginary country. He then submits all the corrupt, immoral, disloyal, and murderous government officials to public trial.

Although first published in 1891, this ghost story remains a classic of Wildean wit and Victorian sentimentality. True, some of the references to melodrama and nineteenth-century Anglo-American attitudes may elude modern readers, but the basic story of a hardheaded American family that buys a haunted British manor house and proceeds to drive the resident ghost nearly crazy with its skepticism is still a delight, as are Wilde's epigrams.