El incidente suizo

A Jackie MacNamara, escritora de novelas románticas, le habían dejado una casa para que pudiera acabar de escribir su último libro. Lo que desde luego no esperaba era que Nathan Powell, el dueño de la casa, apareciera allí. Lo único que Jackie tenía que hacer era convencer al obstinado Nathan Powell de que eran capaces de compartir el mismo techo y que los finales felices empezaban en casa. Y entre sus brazos...

Relato breve con tintes de poema épico, El combate de la tapera empieza mostrando un destacamento mixto que se ha apartado de la zona de combate y aguarda junto a una tapera (una casa abandonada) mientras a lo lejos viene una tropa portuguesa mucho mayor en número. Está considerado el primer gran cuento de la literatura uruguaya. Contiene algunos elementos sumamente llamativos, entre ellos el protagonismo de las mujeres en una escena de guerra, los intentos de reproducir el lenguaje popular y un estilo de narración que bien podría calificarse de cinematográfico antes de que hubiera...

Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho ...

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