Sobre héroes y víctimas

La venganza del indio de Juan Carlos Ubilluz sacude la plácida estabilidad del canon. Partiendo del psicoanálisis y de la narratología estructuralista, este libro desarrolla una práctica interpretativa que se adentra en lo real de los relatos indigenistas para desvincularlos del sentido reconfortante. Su apuesta es evidenciar que estos relatos son dispositivos libidinales violentos que convocan “subjetivamente” al lector a participar en la emancipación indígena. En este sentido, La venganza del indio es un libro político. En sus páginas no hay lugar para la agenda pospolítica y...

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...

Mario, 4 años Una noche llamó a su padre desde la cama llorando porque había tenido una pesadilla y su padre le dijo: «Las pesadillas son un sueño feo y, si piensas en lo que más te gusta, soñarás con algo bonito. A ver, ¿qué es lo que más te gusta del mundo?». Y Mario dijo llorando: «¡Las tetas!». David, 4 años Mirando el Guernica de Picasso, dijo: «Pero ¿qué desorden es éste?». Claudia, 6 años Claudia le preguntó un día a su madre: «Mamá, y Jesús en el cielo ¿está en la cruz o está suelto?».

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.

In Gronjor, a world that's half light and half shadow, a group of hunters traverse the untamed dark side. They're headed towards the labyrinth, the most savage zone on the planet, populated by wild animals that work to throw center-seekers off their path. Gronjor's delicate equilibrium depends on this cruel process of selection controlled by the sorcerer Milosh. There's little cause for hope, except for a prophecy that speaks of an imminent change...