Sueños hechos realidad

Un inmigrante italiano trabaja en un cine desaparecido de la Caracas de los 70. Las historias que recuerda de sus años en el mundo de spaghetti western le sirven al cinéfilo que accede a escucharlas como un telescopio a otras historias —en Roma, Buenos Aires o la misma Caracas— donde la realidad compite con el cine, e incluso lo supera, en crueldad, belleza e ironía. Héctor Concari nos recuerda que las vidas que nos rodean pueden ser tan fascinantes como las vidas inventadas.

While Carmen de Burgos (Almeria 1867-Madrid 1932) belonged to the Generation of '98 in terms of her age, she is really too modern and progressive a figure for this categorization. A journalist, author, translator and progressive feminist intellectual, de Burgos was one of the most widely-read writers of her time. When she died she left a body of work impressive both in its quantity and quality: 12 full length and approximately 57 short novels. "La rampa" (1917) is the second full-length novel by Carmen de Burgos, and is dedicated -to all of the throngs of wounded and lost women who have come...

Pedro Pablo Perez Santiesteban como testigo frente al mundo ( sus habitantes), deja una llave magica para que abramos poemas y prosas. Estan a puertas abiertas en este libro Como poeta contemporaneo prefiere el verso libre, a veces breve, como un asentimiento de que la poesia cabe en el minimo renglon de la palabra solitaria; a veces extensa, palabras guiadas por el sentimiento que no cesa en su avidez por decir que duele, que emociona. La poesia es sintesis, se mantiene en la eficacia del lenguaje, se adentra en el espiritu sin pretender dar una definicion, solo la pausa en el frenesi...

What is so seductive about the idea of escaping? Why do we all feel the desire to flee and only few dare to fulfill it? In this novel, Norma Knot introduces us to four possible artists of escapism: Sofia, a woman caught in her own melancholy that is not able to run away from herself; Carmelo, an old escapist that is able to break away from a magic box while he continues to be trapped in a tortuous relationship; Sebastian, a former prodigy boy trying to forget the disillusion that he caused his parents and, finally, a Bengala tiger that escapes from its captivity causing chaos in the city. The ...