Putrefactio

Roland Barthes, uno de los críticos más importantes del siglo xx, relee su propia obra al tiempo que se retrata como sujeto. Y en ese proceso, consigue resignificar toda una vida a partir del modo de narrarla. “Toda la obra de Barthes es una exploración de lo histriónico o lo lúdico; de muchas e ingeniosas maneras, una excusa para el paladeo, para una relación festiva (más que dogmática o crédula) con las ideas. Para Barthes, como para Nietzsche, el fin no es alcanzar algo en particular. El fin es hacernos audaces, ágiles, sutiles, inteligentes, escépticos. Y dar placer”. SUSAN ...

Darrow was born a slave, but he became a weapon. He put an end to centuries of gold rule and became a powerful hero to the republic. Now he will have to risk everything that he has fought for in one last, desperate mission. His destiny intertwines with others. A young red woman flees from a miserable refugee camp and begins a new life that she never could have imagined. A former soldier must steal something precious or lose his life. Lisandro Au Lune, heir to the power in exile, wanders with his mentor, obsessed with recovering the life that Darrow destroyed. When one world ends, another...

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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), creador del inmortal detective Padre Brown, dedicó parte de su prolífica carrera literaria al relato policial, con narraciones en las que, según Borges, no se encontraba una sola página que no contuviera una felicidad. La colección de bolsillo El Club Diógenes reúne buena parte de estos relatos policiacos en dos volúmenes: Las paradojas de Mr. Pond (CD 101) y El hombre que sabía demasiado (CD 111). El poeta y los lunáticos (1929), aunque se presenta como una novela, en realidad está concebida como una sucesión de episodios que se entrelazan,...