Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía

Nothing can save Alex's life- that's what all the doctors say, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can crack open a door to the afterlife, pulling her son back from the brink. When she uses the spells, five evil ancients -the Death Walkers- are also brought back to life, releasing an ancient evil.

Against the apparent initial antagonism between literature and law, Magris proposes a more profound and complex vision and argues that law’s frigidity is also what makes possible life’s warmth, which is passionately portrayed by literature. In this way, he vindicates the richness of a relationship that, far from being one of opposition, often ends up revealing important similarities. Al aparente antagonismo inicial entre la literatura y el derecho, Magris contrapone una visión más profunda y compleja y revela que la frialdad del derecho es también lo que hace posible la calidez de la...

Novela de humor ácido y sarcástico para gente cansada del «mamarrachismo» televisivo y de la subnormalidad políticamente correcta. Situaciones absurdas y surrealistas, enredos descabellados y un viaje, a través de la intemporal incultura de todo un país, de la mano de un elenco de personajes de «dudosa reputación». Diversión garantizada. A Felatio Pilgrim, desde hace tiempo, las neuronas «le patinan» como las suelas a unas alpargatas viejas. Cuando la marquesa de La Farfollada, por catastróficas casualidades de la vida, le encarga la búsqueda de su recién fallecido marido,...

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...