Fantasmas Voraces

El gran teatro del mundo de Pedro Calderón de la Barca es un Auto sacramental crucial para entender el nihilismo Barroco. Esta obra destaca por su percepción del mundo como algo alucinante y por su extraña religiosidad.

I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.' Thus begins the most autobiographical novel by Theodor Kallifatides and one of the most appreciated by its hundreds of thousands of readers. A week before Kallifatides fled the town, a group of fascists with guns in their hands had forced all the people to gather in the cemetery. There they stood, ...

This biting satire of academia and high finance by the Harvard economist “is ingenious and humorous even as it chills and cuts close to the bone” (The New York Times). John Kenneth Galbraith served in the Kennedy administration before becoming one of the twentieth century’s foremost economists and public intellectuals. In A Tenured Professor, he spins his wealth of knowledge—and knowledge of wealth—into a delightfully comical morality tale. Montgomery Martin, a Harvard economics professor, creates a stock forecasting model which makes it possible for him to uncover society's hidden...

Los antólogos, como los traductores, son traidores por definición: si los segundos han de adaptar un idioma a las reglas y la música de otro, los primeros escogen una línea argumental y eligen aquello que mejor se amolda a sus intereses entre un número de posibilidades casi infinito para que otros les presten su voz. Así pues, este libro es solo una selección de la literatura que, desde mediados del siglo XVIII hasta las primeras décadas del siglo XX, habla del miedo al otro, como individuo o como grupo, del otro como monstruo, de la masa como monstruo, en clave de ciencia ficción....