LECTURAS BREVES (relatos e historias)

COMMENTS ON RUTMAN’S WRITINGS "a very warm, lively tale... a reasonable, friendly, calm voice." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize in literature PRAISE FOR “COMRADE STALIN CHANGED HIS HAIRCUT” “[The book] is rich in good plot, a great deal of interesting detail, and written with imaginative language and literary talent.” Edward Kline, author and editor (New York) “The piece is full-fledged, as dense as a tree. The intrigue is truly captivating. Indeed, I took the characters’ adventures very close to heart. The [main] idea is very neat. It’s - why not? -fantastic! It must be...

Catarsis, el Dios de los Mutilados, ha muerto. Sus seguidores, tullidos y enfermos de todo tipo, se dispersan por un mundo donde a los tiranos se les llama reyes, los héroes se confunden con los delincuentes, y la verdad y la justicia son conceptos antagónicos. Un paladín manco, un ladrón promiscuo, un bárbaro suicida, una seductora hechicera y un elfo legendario son algunos de los protagonistas de esta aventura épica llena de acción, intriga y humor en la que todos guardan secretos y nada es lo que parece. Abre tu mente, olvida todo lo que crees saber y prepárate para la batalla.

La vida tiene siempre dos caras: nacer, morir. Amar, odiar. Ser feliz o desgraciado. Rico o pobre. Como es el caso de la Luna, no podemos ver sino una de sus caras y solamente viajando en una nave sideral podríamos conocer La otra Cara de la Noche. Willy, el extraño personaje de esta novela tuvo una experiencia casi fantástica cuando quiso viajar por las ondas cibernéticas del Internet, para finalmente encontrarse consigo mismo.

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...