Carnalidad del frío

A contemptible writer writes his masterpiece, a screenplay for Soviet Hollywood in a futuristic past in which Argentina and a good portion of the world have joined the USSR against the rest of the world: the capitalist countries with New York as their capital city. In this hypothetical socialist Argentina the betrayals are the same ones they have always been: political in appearance, but quite human in reality, more tied to people’s characters than to the rules that they use to try to organize themselves. Un escritor despreciable escribe la obra de su vida, un guión cinematográfico para...

A principios de siglo, la Sociedad para el Estudio de las Lenguas Interestelares envió a la lingüista terrestre Rachel Monteverde al planeta exterior Aanuk, para que estudiase la lengua y la cultura de sus habitantes. El resultado de sus investigaciones fue una obra de más de trescientas páginas, El informe Monteverde: Primera aproximación al estudio de las lenguas del planeta exterior Aanuk, publicado como tesis doctoral de su autora al regreso de su viaje. Pocos años después, la doctora Monteverde decidió editar también una versión resumida del mismo, junto con el cuaderno...

Ever wonder how a book gets published, becomes a best-seller, maybe even a movie later on? Here are some of the people who make it happen. But brace yourself. Sometimes it ain't real pretty. Besides, which of us can say who really writes a novel that gets published by a traditional publisher? Do we see the editor's "doctoring" as the ultimate product? Or does the publisher dictate the final version of the book, since he's the one who makes the decisions that count. Come to think of it, what if the author isn't really the author? Kinda makes you cogitate, don't it?

Ana María Josefa Cruz o Pitusa como le llaman sus amigos, acaba de terminar el bachiller y decide entrar en la Universidad. Allí conocerá a Ángel Portillo, un profesor de matemáticas.