¿Un unicornio en una granja?

El Cuento Semanal publicó unas trescientas novelas cortas de más de cien autores españoles contemporáneos en el período de 1907-1912.

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

With the mixture of erudition and amenity that characterizes it, Rdiger Safranski traces, first, the biography of the exceptional movement called Romanticism, which lasts about thirty years and hatch in the passage of the XVII century to the XVIII century, through the portrait and analysis of authors such as Herder, Fichte, Schelling, Schiller and Hoffmann. Then the 'romantic' attitude which, in the words of Novalis, is to confer to the vulgar a higher sense.

Los nuevos medios audiovisuales (videoclips, apps, internet, etc.) son parte fundamental de nuestra forma de entender la narrativa en el mundo actual. En este ensayo se explora cómo estos influyen a la literatura, a partir de un estudio de caso de la novela Trainspotting; misma que resulta un ejemplo paradigmático donde los medios distintos al literario pesan sobre la forma de escribir la narrativa contemporanea. (¡Advertencia! Este ensayo incluye varias citas en inglés, por lo que el conocimiento del idioma es recomendable para poderle dar seguimiento).