Más que perfectos

La lucidez característica de Kurt Tucholsky transforma las anécdotas aparentemente más banales en reflexiones sobre la naturaleza humana, alegatos contra la guerra y el nacionalismo, burlándose de la pedantería, la burocracia y las convenciones. “Entre el ayer y el mañana”, cuya selección de textos fue realizada por la esposa del autor, analiza cómo vivían el día a día los ciudadanos alemanes de entreguerras, con una ironía y una comicidad que no ocultan el horror que se gestaba. Considerado por Hitler como uno de los representantes de la decadente literatura urbana (la que...

Sentémonos en la simbólica butaca de mimbre y disfrutemos de esta novela-testimonio por la que decursan altos valores y anhelos humanos, espirituales y sociales. El principal protagonista de esta apasionante historia siempre movido por la búsqueda de la verdad y la paz nos narra vívidamente diferentes momentos de su vida, entre ellos, algunos donde corrió graves peligros en escenarios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y varias historias humanas, en las que prevalecen un elevado respeto por la mujer y el amor.

Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After Earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, 50 years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work...

In eve of the presidential change-over, the banking is nationalized, and by means of a President's decree, the currency is devaluated in more than a hundred percent, the inflation goes up to three digits and the Mexicans' savings in "mexdollars" become pesos with little value. By the end of that six years governmental period, in which the good administration of the oil abundance was proclaimed, the country was in fact plundered and left with empty arks. This was the scenario of Mexico in 1982 and the one that serves as a background for the fictitious characters of "State Crime," a novel where ...