“ Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. ” ― Rumi
Una selección de cuentos que Julio Cortázar calificó como “inolvidables” en diversas épocas de su vida. Una lista que se abre pero no se cierra e involucra al propio Cortázar como lector junto con grandes autores de la Literatura contemporánea.L
Lands of Memory presents a half-dozen wonderful works by one of the greatest yet least-known South American writers of the twentieth century. Felisberto Hernández's extraordinary stories have been always greatly prized by other writers, and the two novel
From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Storie
Acclaimed by the initiated, Felisberto Hernandez has long been considered -a writer's writer, more admired by his colleagues than known by the public at large- (Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University). As with his predecessors in the -genre of the s
Juegos de palabras que no son juegos, espejos que mienten y dicen la verdad al mismo tiempo, pesadillas del fascismo, personajes habitados, simetrías, simulacros dobles de amor y de muerte: todo el mundo complejo, cruel, fascinante de Cortázar, cartogra
En Octaedro lo político y lo social están contenidos dentro de los límites de un género, el cuento, que el gran escritor argentino vuelve a ensanchar aquí de manera prodigiosa. Los cuentos: Liliana llorando, Los pasos en las huellas, Manuscrito halla
Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture. In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could. He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents
This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Italo Calvin