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Donde inscribir un texto que articula una lectura de la narrativa de Juan Jose Saer en torno al concepto de melancolia? Tal vez esa misma imposibilidad de inscribir la lectura de Premat en un tipo de critica previsible sea lo que hace de LA DICHA DE SATURNO una lectura valiente y original. Si el texto, como argumenta Julio Premat, no puede reducirse a un programa estetico, a una intervencion en el campo cultural, a un dialogo controlado con la tradicion, a una discusion con la identidad o con el canon, el concepto de melancolia permite entonces integrar a la reflexion, a partir de una lectura ...

Kennedy Waters lives in a world where vengeful spirits kill, ghosts keeps secrets, and a devil walks among the people...a devil she unwittingly liberated. Now Kennedy and the other members of the Legion must hunt it down. As she learns more about the Legion and the Illuminati, she begins to understand that her family hides the biggest mystery. With the clock ticking down and the life of someone she loves hanging by a thread, she must ask herself what in her past has left her unmarked.

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

«El erudito Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), preboste del Eton College, arqueólogo de renombre y reconocida autoridad en manuscritos medievales e historia de las catedrales, siguiendo su vieja afición a contar relatos de fantasmas durante las Navidades, se ha convertido poco a poco en un cultivador de primera fila de la literatura espectral, y ha llegado a servir de modelo a una larga serie de discípulos». Así presenta otro genio del terror, H.P. Lovecraft, al indiscutible maestro del relato de fantasmas victoriano M.R. James. Para James, el relato de fantasmas era todo un arte y...