Afectos secundarios

De rasgos autobiográficos, por su estructura filosófica, considerada una lección de vida. Los personajes que aparecen tienen un núcleo histórico.

Two writers, a deceased mother and her seventy-year-old son, Pancho, isolated in a palace near the sea in Galicia, are attended by an enigmatic old servant woman. The past haunts them with the unexpected visit of a man who had been Pancho’s secretary twenty years before. Soon, a child, this man’s son, moves into the palace, taking events to a tragic, ironic and surprising ending. This novel was made into a Spanish language movie: "El juego de los mensajes invisibles" (The Game of the Invisible Messages... 1991).

La pureza de Matilde: "Carlos Estévez se apoltronaba, medio derrumbado en un sofá y daba grandes y profundas chupadas a un cigarrillo, cuyo humo expelía por boca y nariz y a la vez sus negros e inquisidores ojos seguían perezosos la silueta de Jaly. Hablaba sin cesar, pero tampoco se detenía, de modo que Carlos además de seguirla con los ojos, la escuchaba con la ceja alzada, como si todo cuanto decía Jaly le estuviera sorprendiendo e interesando. —Así que ya lo sabes —farfullaba Jaly al tiempo de moverse con increíble agilidad pese a sus bien cumplidos cuarenta años—, la...

Tired of her medical studies and still reeling from her lover's suicide, Laure seeks refuge in alcohol, refuses love, and sets out on a dangerous and exciting journey into the depths of the Pigalle neighborhood's nightlife in 1960s Paris. Soon she becomes Gigola, a young androgynous garçonne, attractive because of her rebelliousness—short hair, cane in hand, and dressed in a black velvet smoking jacket—and who expresses her defiance by selling her body. This barrier-breaking novel, a pioneer for current feminist tendencies, faithfully portrays the garçonne phenomenon that defined an...