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Un amante transformado en roedor, unas profesoras asesinadas, un episodio de tortura inquisitorial, la dignidad de un torero, el quinto avatar de Barbazul o los ritos de muerte y pervivencia en un Escorial de pesadilla son motivos con los que Luis Riaza traslada a la narrativa algunos temas y parte de los códigos que lo convirtieron en referente ineludible del «nuevo teatro español». La violencia, las formas de poder y dominación, el sexo y la muerte se extienden por estas páginas con un lenguaje original y renovador, al margen de convenciones y en un paroxístico proceso de reescritura ...

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...

RESUMEN: Análisis del poema «Gesso» de Manuel Bandeira desde la perspectiva compa- ratista. Relación con la poética de las ruinas que se desarrolla en la literatura europea e iberoamericana desde los clásicos a la actualidad. Palabras clave: «Gesso»; Manuel Bandeira; perspectiva comparatista. RESUMO: Análisis del poema «Gesso» de Manuel Bandeira desde la perspectiva compa- ratista. Relación con la poética de las ruinas que se desarrolla en la literatura europea e iberoamericana desde los clásicos a la actualidad. Palavras-chave: «Gesso»; Manuel Bandeira; perspectiva...

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...