Espectadora de primera fila: selección de crónicas y entrevistas 1971-1995

El bobo del pueblo ha muerto. Vivos y difuntos de Mabuya acuden al entierro bañados por una lluvia que pretende limpiar la culpa de todos los que, de alguna forma, dejaron morir al pobre Tico. Sus ojos inocentes han pasado años observando las injusticias, los anhelos frustrados, las tragedias, la felicidad efímera, los amores y desamores de un pueblito cubano al que su propia historia le ha venido grande. Sus habitantes llevan mucho tiempo siendo protagonistas y testigos involuntarios de los acontecimientos de la isla/país/nación/proyecto/utopía que los ha visto nacer, sufrir, cantar,...

Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. In it, a man wakes up to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. Faced with this ambiguous but threatening situation, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure.

“I hate literary letters, carefully drafted, copied over and over; I sit at the typewriter and let the vast river of thoughts and affection flow,” Julio Cortázar wrote in 1942: a statement he lived by. In these letters, which read like a personal diary, autobiography and «binnacle» for his books, we glimpse the making of an unmistakable style. Ever-inquisitive, Cortázar delves into every aspect of his efforts as a writer, his political restlessness and personal ups-and-downs. He sums up each day, comments on what he reads, hears and sees, and recounts his adventures as a translator,...