Voces del siglo de oro español

Agnès Ledig ha encontrado en la naturaleza la inspiración para su nueva novela. Rodeado de árboles centenarios, Édouard se pregunta qué le habrá empujado a dejar a su mujer plantada en la estación de tren y subirse, sin premeditación alguna, a un autobús siguiendo los pasos de una anciana desconocida. En un segundo, este cambio de rumbo ha hecho bascular toda su vida, así que en vez de estar preparando la cena con su pareja, en ese momento se encuentra en un refugio en pleno bosque de Brocelianda. En el corazón del mítico escenario artúrico, Édouard no solo se dejará envolver...

After a night of celebrating with friends, Emily Warren is attacked by a colleague. Sheas fortunate to escape his rape attempt but now suffers from terrifying nightmares. Emily accepts an invitation from a friend and makes the trip out to Billas farm, knowing she will have to be careful about what she confides in him. Emily wants to try to hide the fact she has been attacked and that her attacker is still threatening her. She also doesnat want to reveal she loves Bill. Bill has two weeks to find out what is frightening Emily. He told her a white lie to get her to come to his farm. Soon after...

«Escribiré mi informe como si contara una historia, pues me enseñaron siendo niño que la verdad nace de la imaginación. El más cierto de los episodios puede perderse en el estilo del relato, o quizá dominarlo: como esas extrañas joyas orgánicas de nuestros océanos, que si las usa una determinada mujer brilla cada día más, y en otras en cambio se empañan y se deshacen en polvo.»

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are...