Breve historia de la literatura argentina

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Ines is a nine-year-old girl who spends the afternoons with her neighbor Lupe, an elderly woman with a vivid imagination. Lupe asks Ines to write letters to son Lucas, however, reality and fantasy seem to blend in Lupe's mind, as if some mice were gnawing at her memories.

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Ana María Maya, una importante bailaora gitana, será el misterioso hilo que nos conduzca hasta el sorprendente final de esta novela. Si ese último reducto ecológico de las islas Fidji es protagonista de la primera parte, España lo es de la segunda, en donde el pintor Goya y el rostro de su maja jugarán un papel fundamental en la trama. En Maya, apoyándose en el suspense, Gaarder explicará al lector la evolución de los vertebrados y del Universo a partir del Big Bang, así como una teoría sobre la relatividad del Tiempo a la vez que nos plantea si el Universo tiene o no una finalidad ...