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"A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in an orgy of voodoo, race ...

Libertad Arregui is a young reporter sent to El Salvador in the late eighties. Through her television chronicles along with her camera partner Íñigo Santolaya - a tragic and hilarious man marked by the Vietnam War - we witness the most fateful events that took place in that forgotten war in Central America: the assassination of Ellacuría and the Jesuits, the Sumpul river massacre, the Colomoncagua refugee camps and the first exhumations. "The Jungle Under my Skin is also the journey of a son who wants to find his origins. And to settle the scores of life, he has a manuscript that was given ...

«El hecho de que aquellos ojos no mostraran el menor indicio del fulgor que tantas veces había percibido al conocer a alguien, cuando gozaba aún del deslumbrante esplendor de la juventud o de la intrépida gallardía de la madurez, era algo que Casanova había aprendido a aceptar hacía mucho.» Con todo, en El regreso de Casanova -publicada por Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) en 1917- el célebre libertino veneciano, ya en el otoño de su existencia, encuentra un estimulante desafío en la figura de la joven, fría e inteligente Marcolina. Encabritado por su indiferencia, refractario a...

'Una habitación propia' trata de la relación entre la condición femenina y la literatura, desde el punto de vista de una de la escritora.