Imposible resistirse

Un poeta maldito arrastra a un depresivo por las calles de Miami Beach huyendo de su pasado en modo autodestrucción. Novela en la piel de serie de tv, de dramedy oscuro y frenético donde cada secuencia de eventos se despliega ante el lector con una densidad extrema. El poeta maldito Lasticön, protagonista de esta historia, deambula por una ciudad que no es otra cosa que una visión impiadosa del futuro. Se dice con cierta razón que a la literatura del siglo XXI le faltan personajes. Gastón Virkel engendró una criatura visceral que tiene como naturaleza el humor negro y la poesía pop.

In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...

Escrit en els mateixos anys que el Tirant lo Blanc, Espill (1460-1462) ha estat considerada amb justícia una obra cabdal de la literatura catalana de tots els temps. El seu autor, Jaume Roig, metge d’un enorme prestigi, va ser capaç de construir, al damunt d’una forma deliberadament arcaica, una obra de tal agudesa satírica que tendeix a assimilar-se a una comèdia. Les dificultats que deriven de la forma versificada en tetrasíl·labs, així com l’ús d’un estil peculiar, han fet que aquesta obra hagi estat considerada durant molts anys exemple de dificultat lectora. Antònia...

Twenty-two-year-old Amber St. James's focus is on her education. Her plan is clear: finish the elite San Francisco/Berkeley Medical School program early and become a pediatrician. She hasn't given much thought to dating or to men in general, until she enrolls in the required human sexuality course, a subject foreign to her for religious and personal reasons... Tantric yoga practitioner Dash Alexander is Lotus House Yoga's most sought after sensual teacher. Women flock to him for his unique teaching style, calm nature, and wicked hot body. When he hears of Amber's plight, he offers to help....