Hechizo tártaro

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are...

"Machincuepa", nos lo dice la RAE, proviene del nahua mayotzincuepa, "rodar como calabaza", aunque su acepción actual refiera a dar volteretas; y es que justamente esa es una manera de describir esta narrativa. Amparado bajo el epígrafe de Diderot (Jacques el fatalista), el espíritu volátil de la narrativa va desde el azaroso incidente en que nuestro protagonista pierde la pierna siendo soldado (fuera de combate), la profesión religiosa (apócrifa), la Señorita Cometa (serie nipona), los vagabundeos de la mendicidad, el sórdido mundo de los tugurios de arrabal, o incluso hasta el...

En la sociedad londinense de la época georgiana, de la hija de un duque solo podía esperarse que fuese una gran dama. ¿Pueden romperse las reglas por una gran pasión? ¿Y si esa pasión conlleva un asesinato? Lady Arabella Marston se encuentra ya en su tercera temporada y sigue soltera y sin compromiso, aunque no le importa demasiado. Su verdadera pasión es la pintura. Dispuesta a demostrar que puede ser algo más que una dama, decide presentar su obra, La ninfa del agua, a la primera exposición de verano que tendrá lugar en la Real Academia de Artes de Londres. Cuando Arabella...

"the Action Française...from its inception regarded the author of La philosophie de la misère as one of its masters. He was given a place of honour in the weekly section of the journal of the movement entitled, precisely, 'Our Masters.' Proudhon owed this place in L'Action française to what the Maurrassians saw as his antirepublicanism, his anti-Semitism, his loathing of Rousseau, his disdain for the French Revolution, democracy, and parliamentarianism: and his championship of the nation, the family, tradition, and the monarchy." Proudhon's thought has seen some revival since the end of...