De visita en el correo (A Trip to the Post Office)

This book is composed of poems-tribute to some bars (and, by extension, to their owners or regents, some of those bars have already disappeared, others have changed owners or regents and others remain) that they have supported for 29 years with their obols.

Sitting Bull first went to battle at the age of 14. He grew to be widely respected for his bravery and insight, and became chief of the Lakota nation in his thirties. By the time he met General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, his courage was legendary. Though he soundly defeated Custer, public outrage at the defeat brought thousands of cavalrymen to the area, where it took four more years before the brave chief would surrender. He was forced onto a reservation where he was later killed when police attempted to arrest him.

A fierce ogre finds that children are becoming too smart for him to catch and eat. Instead, he passes his time writing arithmetic problems to challenge the children.

Una incisiva colección de ensayos, donde Jonathan Franzen vuelve con renovado vigor a los temas, tanto humanos como literarios, que le han preocupado durante mucho tiempo. Bien sea narrando su violento encuentro con cazadores furtivos en Chipre, bien sea señalando de forma aguda y conmovedora cómo el abuso de las nuevas tecnologías está erosionando el sentido de la intimidad, Franzen cumple en cada uno de estos textos la promesa implícita de llegar hasta el fondo y no escatimar nada. Así pues, estos ensayos dan fe de una inteligencia madura que se interroga sobre la identidad, el...