La bestia con cinco dedos

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...

Seeking to understand the economic relations between author and publisher, this study analyzes the place of Roberto Bolaño in the Latin American literary canon through the texts of Jorge Herralde. After showing how the work of the 1998 Premio Herralde winner has been commodified, Lèal offers a critical reading of the writer figure, as represented in three key moments of Bolaño’s short story production.

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.

Este epistolario es un desafío a la imagen convencional y más plana de la cultura española bajo el franquismo: sus autores describen, tal vez sin saberlo, el recorrido interior de nuestra vida intelectual desde los orígenes del fascismo -antes de la Guerra Civil- como ruptura violenta del orden burgués hasta la maduración democrática de una sociedad literaria y política. El pivote humano del libro es Dionisio Ridruejo, el hombre que mejor encarnó aquella transición razonada y solvente desde la Falange totalitaria a la socialdemocracia sin dejar de ser poeta, ensayista y gran...