La Señora Cloud

La historia de la inimitable Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson en una maravillosa novela de Gabriela Margall. Rebelde, apasionada, valiente, Mariquita recupera en estas páginas su singularidad. Imperdible. Una noche de 1801, María Josepha Petrona de Todos los Santos iba a casarse con Diego del Arco. El hombre había sido elegido cuidadosamente por sus padres, los Sánchez de Velazco. Pero ella se rehusó. Apeló al Virrey para evitar un matrimonio que iba en contra de su voluntad y lo logró. Tenía apenas catorce años. Mariquita Sánchez se convirtió entonces en heroína de su propia...

This early work by Aleister Crowley was originally published in 1899. Born in Royal Leamington Spa, England in 1875, Crowley was raised by Christian fundamentalist parents. He attended Trinity College at Cambridge University, but left before graduating. After leaving the college, he devoted his time to studying the occult, and travelled extensively throughout the world in persuit of its secret knowledge. He went on to become a prolific writer, producing essays, prose and poetry on a wide range of subjects. To this day he remains a highly influential figure, both in occult circles and popular...

For some, Evita was a goddess, a queen, and a patron mother; for others she was a social climber, and a crazy and ordinary analphabet; her body is the protagonist of this novel. This book tells the impressive and absurd story of the peregrinations of Evita's perfectly embalmed corpse across oceans and in and out of Peronists' hands.A superb craftsman, Mr. Martinez moves through stories of Evita's life and deathand the peregrinations of her body? with a dazzling array of literary devices, including imagined interviews and memoirs, even fake screenplays.... he affirms his place among Latin...

Esta novela es la descripcin̤ de una soledad y de una generacin̤ demasiado joven para haber sido vc̕tima de la engaįfa ideolg̤ica de los "luchadores antifranquistas" hoy instalados en el ms̀ cm̤odo mandarinato y demasiado vieja com para abrazar los ideales tecnocrt̀icos impuestos por esos mismos mandarines: sl̤o les queda una nada en la que hundirse o de la que sacar fuerzas para soportar esta "nueva desolacin̤": anfibios entre el cinismo y el asco.