La costurera

A passionate and solitary inventor of agricultural machinery fights for love and recognition from his community. Through this partially autobiographical tale, author Sherwood Anderson aims his critique on the rise of technology and industries at the turn of the century. At the same time, he recreates a story where nature has no judgments and beauty is troubling. Pobre blanco was praised by writers such as H. L. Mencken and Hart Crane when it was originally published. It remains a curiously contemporary novel and a marvelous testimony to Anderson.

Año 1940. Tras su exilio en París, el pintor Adrián Fadrique decide volver a Madrid con el fin de recuperar su pasado y encontrar a Amelia. En su vida hay un vacío de memoria a causa de un accidente que borró gran parte de sus recuerdos, algo que le empuja a regresar al lugar donde pasó los mejores años de su vida. En la ciudad subsisten restos ocultos de resistencia republicana y un numeroso grupo de agentes extranjeros que tratan de decantar la posición de España en la recién estallada Guerra Mundial. En esta encrucijada, el artista se ve envuelto en una trama que le lleva a...

When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down to write the invitations to her eightieth birthday party she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have built; but she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed.

A través de una prosa límpida, Amado Nervo postula que toda la dicha humana reside en su precariedad: el goce seguro y durable no constituye felicidad alguna, sino ennui, spleen-, y extrañas incursiones en los terrenos de la personalidad o conciencia doble o múltiple.