Entre tinta y papel

Una joven monja afirma ser la reencarnación de María Magdalena. Ni el padre Serrano, psiquiatra, ni Theo, investigador, creen en la reencarnación, pero se rinden ante las numerosas pruebas que la joven les ofrece. Serrano es asesinado y el Vaticano ordena internar a la monja en una clínica mental. Theo la ayudará a escapar, y ella le confiesa que lleva dos mil años deseando volver a verle. Theo no comprende nada pero recuerda vagamente encuentros con ella en un pasado remoto. Theo resulta ser la reencarnación de Santiago, el hermano menor de Cristo.William Valtos escribe desde que era...

Full of disturbing scenes that blend the everyday with the fantastical, La Ciudad del Cangrejo is like a new One Thousand and One Nights, at once unmistakably Argentine and stubbornly universal. Carlos Santos Sáez combines the orality of popular stories with the search for new narrative forms in these utterly unclassifiable tales, collected for the first time.

Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor and bemused irony. These are the stories of the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, here presented in an important compilation of thirteen of his most compelling tales, sensitively selected and translated by J. David Danielson. Author of some two hundred pieces of fiction, often compared to the works of Kipling, Jack London, and Edgar Allan Poe,...

Mariana Pineda (1925) was Lorca's first success in the theatre. Based on a popular Andalusian ballad, it tells the story of Mariana Pineda who was garrotted in 1831 under the reactionary regime of Ferdinand VII for embroidering a Liberal flag and refusing to betray her lover. Written during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the political message would not have escaped Lorca's audience. But the play is primarily the work of a poet and its appeal lies in the delicate tension that results from a deft blend of lyricism and drama which culminates in an astonishing level of spirituality in the...