Termidor y la nueva Francia

Spain, 1936: NBC Radio, New York, sends two young reporters, Tom Wells and Meg Austin, to Madrid where Franco and his revolutionary fascist generals have plunged the country into a ruthless civil conflict. The lovers experience the ambiguities, dangers and drama of war-time Spain. They witness the heartbreaking scenes of civilian-soldiers armed with ancient weapons and little ammunition fighting experienced, well-supplied combat troops. Bombs fall on civilian neighborhoods dropped by Hitlers and Mussolinis bombers. The fascists support Franco, the Russian Communists the Republic, while the...

The book follows the adventures of a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". He takes great delight in hurting the animals on his family farm. Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family are at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin. Nils rejects the offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves him shrunken and able to talk with animals, who are thrilled to see the boy reduced to...

Vincenzo de Vivaldi es un joven napolitano de buena familia que, un día en una iglesia, ve a Ellena de Rosalba y se enamora perdidamente de ella. Tras conocerse un poco más, ambos sienten lo mismo el uno por el otro.

Comparando lo que sabemos del viaje que, cuando era marino, efectivamente Conrad hizo al Congo, el de su personaje Marlow es acaso más complejo e interesante porque suma, a las dificultades prácticas, toda una serie de reflexiones y dilemas morales de los cuales nos enteramos a través de la voz de dos narradores: el primero, uno de los innominados oyentes del relato de Marlow y, otro, el propio Marlow, protagonista de su historia y a la vez testigo de la del misterioso agente Kurtz. Se observará entonces que hay allí tres planos superpuestos que permiten considerar la complejidad de un...