Un Baruch para Spinoza

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

El Libro de erudición poética is the text that describes the principles of the occult. According to Carrillo, thorough readers should interpret, with extreme patience, references and metaphors of the text through re-reading. While his work was obscure, its perceived "darkness" was due in large part to its depth.

Originalmente parte del libro Por cuenta propia (2010), que reúne los ensayos de Rafael Chirbes sobre literatura, en este magistral "La estrategia del boomerang", Chirbes explica su teoría de la novela y su propia trastienda de escritor. Imprescindible para conocer las claves de su escritura.

La jirafa Marcelina, que no sabe de cocina, quiere hacer una gran cena que le guste a su sobrina. ¡Ya podéis imaginaros el lío que se va a armar! Sus amigos le aconsejan mil cosas disparatadas y la cena se convierte en una fiesta alocada. ¡Ay, querida Marcelina! ¡Qué desastre de cocina! ¿Cómo lo vas a arreglar? ¡¿Y qué vamos a cenar?!