La conclusión del Amadís de Gaula

Mirada crítica al siglo XX, un siglo que comenzó con la esperanza de consolidar un avance en distintos campos del saber humano, pero que también conoció la barbarie y la destrucción. La autora resalta el espíritu de orfandad que impregna cada uno de los diversos estadios y obsesiones del pensamiento filosófico, literario, musical y artístico de este convulsionado siglo.

La prisión del amor y otros ensayos narrativos explora la relación entre la literatura y la vida; propone al lector un viaje por la condición humana a través de la revisión de algunas de las obras más destacadas de la literatura moderna. De Hernán Lara Zavala, ganador del Premio Real Academia Española. Un viaje por la condición humana a través del análisis y la celebración de algunas de las mayores obras de la literatura moderna. La inagotable variedad de la vida es la materia de las obras literarias. (Sin amor no habría polvo enamorado.) Pero lo contrario es igualmente cierto:...

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...