Algo tan perfecto

¿Tus padres te contaban cuentos para dormir? He de confesar que yo nunca le conté cuentos a mi hija para que se quedara dormida, pero de haberlo hecho, en lugar de contarle una historia diferente cada noche, muy probablemente le hubiera contado una historia que fuera evolucionando día a día. Gambú y su Costal de Ideas es ese cuento que debí contarle a mi hija pero que nunca lo hice: es una historia que habla de fantasía, de la aventura de la imaginación y del valor de la amistad.

Herencia (1895) set in the city of Lima during the last decades of the XIX Century, is the third deliberately controversial novel written by Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru, 1852-1909), well known by then for her novels, Aves sin nido (1889) and Indole (1891), which take place in rural Andean Peru. An experienced writer of essays, historical fiction and biographies, Clorinda Matto had a sociologist's sharply observant eye, but by 1895, when she published Herencia, Clorinda Matto's days as an aggressive journalist in Lima were numbered. Only a few months later, she fled into exile in Argentina...

Philosophers such as Voltaire, Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx have made the critique of Christianity a decisive battlefield for a new experience of the world. Along these lines, Sade's La filosofía en el tocador is much more than a work of erotic literature. For Sade, religion constitutes the worst enemy of sexual pleasure and of man's political liberty. The sensual negation of the other, which for the libertine has no more value than as an object of pleasure, reaches its pinnacle in crime. Sade's task, then, is to reveal for the first time the destructive aspects of sexual love.

In the four stories that make up Maldito Amor, Ferre explores the history of political & cultural struggle in her native Puerto Rico.