Machismo al Desnudo

Between wars (1918-1939) Benjamin Jarnes (1888-1949) was considered among the most appreciated Spanish writers, and his novels were distinguished by the European critiques of the time. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," along "Paula y Paulita," "Escenas junto a la muerte" and "Teoria del zumbel," belong to a fiction cycle, unique in the peninsular narrative of those years; novels in which Jarnes experiments with the new forms of metafiction to highlight the existential condition of the human being in the newly technified mass society. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," simultaneously "agonic" and...

Maine, 1937, lawyer Calvin Chese gives up his job as deputy district attorney to investigate the stabbing death of this beloved younger brother. The story begins with an intriguing young woman arriving in a New England town.

A través de la mirada de un adolescente, Mabanckou narra la vida en el Congo de los convulsos años 70. Michel, un chico de trece años con fama de soñador, vive en la localidad congoleña de Pointe-Noire. Su vida transcurre con normalidad: va al colegio, juega, tiene sus más y sus menos con los vecinos; su madre trabaja en un puesto de plátanos en el mercado y su padre, en un hotel. Pero en marzo de 1977, de repente, estalla la noticia: el camarada presidente Marien Ngouabi ha sido brutalmente asesinado. El atentado tendrá distintas consecuencias en la vida de Michel y su familia, el...

"Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did and did not happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful memoir that the author himself considers a work of fiction, for what is memory but one's own story about the past. Eschewing self-righteousness in favor of self-criticism, Kaniuk's book, winner of the 2010 Sapir Prize for Literature, is the tale of a younger man told by his older, wiser self the self who realizes that wars are pointless, and that he and his...