Los Sueños de Matilde

Jovel, serenata a la gente menuda is an essential novel in the literary canon of Chiapas, Mexico; not only for belonging to the historic novel genre, but also by bringing out important identity traits for the Chiapas population. The strategies for the composition of this fictional world follow very closely historical documents to relate the circumstances at the departure from the Iberian Peninsula in the XVI century of the Spanish group that colonized, founded and established itself in Ciudad Real de Chiapas (current San Cristobal de las Casas), as well as diverse circumstances of the...

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“Dralyuk’s new translation of Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko’s stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author’s wit to life.”—The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his job, who takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces. Yet beneath Kolenkorov’s intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They...

Esta recopilación de cuentos fantásticos persigue, por una parte, acercar la lectura de nuestros autores nacionales a un público que está en búsqueda de sus raíces y reconoce en el misterio y lo sobrenatural un componente esencial de la configuración de la identidad chilena. Por esta razón, no es extraño que aquellas historias que pertenecen a la tradición oral y que todos atesoramos, o bien los escenarios donde ocurren los relatos, vuelvan a ocupar un lugar preponderante en nuestra memoria.