La esclava indomable

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

«Este es el más querido de todos mis libros porque brotó en medio de las peores incertidumbres». Alberto Salcedo Ramos

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...

Luisa Valenzuela lo vuelve a lograr. Consigue que el lenguaje ingrese como un virus que se expande en el lector y desactiva cualquier urgencia. Porque Los tiempos detenidos es una crónica autobiográfica atrapante, imposible de soltar, escrita para comprender -pero también para enfrentar- períodos excepcionales de crisis: el coma y la cuarentena. En esta nueva publicación de la colección Ficciones Reales, dirigida por Cristian Alarcón, se reconoce el espíritu del periodismo narrativo en sus estrategias descriptivas y la esencia de la obra de Luisa Valenzuela en un humor que irrumpe...