Fernando Aramburu, narrador

Una espléndida historia de América Latina a través de su literatura. Michi Strausfeld,una de las expertas en literatura latinoamericana más reconocidas del mundo,analiza en este espléndido libro las ideas y prejuicios que han atravesado a lo largo de más de quinientos años la historia del continente. Lo hace a partir de la relectura de autores de primer nivel como Gabriel García Márquez, lio Cortázar, Elena Poniatowska, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Carlos Onetti, Augusto Roa Bastos, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Isabel Allende, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Darcy...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.

Tras llegar al final de su maratón, el lector, mareado sin duda por las elucubraciones, las fantasías y los inventos tan inverosímiles como escandalosos de los oulipianos (incluso de los oulipianos disfrazados), se alegrará, pienso, al ver cómo se restaura la simple y sobria verdad histórica en torno al “caso Hugo Vernier”. Jacques Roubaud, del posfácio del libro. En 1979 Georges Perec publicó El viaje de invierno, un relato breve en el que cuenta la historia de un joven profesor de literatura que descubre un libro fascinante, llamado justamente El viaje de invierno, de un autor...