Obras Completas Volumen II

Como griego de las provincias, Apiano aporta varios elementos novedosos a la comprensión de la historia de Roma. Apiano carece del genio historiográfico creador de un Tucídides o un Polibio, pero la información que recopila y selecciona con tino es fundamental para conocer varios lances de la historia de Roma, de los que es el único testimonio o como mínimo el más importante: usó diversas fuentes de variado signo, según el episodio que se proponía relatar, muchas de las cuales se han perdido parcialmente o por completo. La Historia dedica cinco libros a las guerras civiles, y...

Leung Ping Kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. 'I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,' he wrote of the story 'See Mun and the Dragon' (1975) in which we find him using a simple, clipped style. The later story 'Drowned Souls' (2007) was written in a more symbolic, lyrical and more complex manner. Although the two stories are separated by over thirty years, and are in many ways so very different, dragons play a prominent part in both. The dragon has always been a fascinating creature, a complex...

Esther, c'est une histoire d'amour(s) au temps des robots, menée au rythme d'un polar. Un roman-plaisir à mi-chemin de Blade runner et un film de Chabrol. À l'occasion de la parution en poche, l'auteur a révisé le texte pour le rendre encore plus captivant ! Anton et Maxine forment un couple sans histoires, doucement consumé par la routine. Une nuit, en rentrant d'un dîner, ils découvrent par hasard une lovebot, poupée sexuelle animée et douée d'intelligence artificielle, abandonnée aux ordures. L'irruption dans leurs vies de ce corps, programmé pour le plaisir mais martyrisé...

“I hate literary letters, carefully drafted, copied over and over; I sit at the typewriter and let the vast river of thoughts and affection flow,” Julio Cortázar wrote in 1942: a statement he lived by. In these letters, which read like a personal diary, autobiography and «binnacle» for his books, we glimpse the making of an unmistakable style. Ever-inquisitive, Cortázar delves into every aspect of his efforts as a writer, his political restlessness and personal ups-and-downs. He sums up each day, comments on what he reads, hears and sees, and recounts his adventures as a translator,...