Un Baruch para Spinoza

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...

Esta compilación cabe entenderla como una historia fantaseada de la literatura, vista desde la puerta de atrás. Las solapas nacen a principios del siglo XX y perduran hasta el día de hoy.

«Las cosas no siempre son lo que parecen y en ocasiones saber demasiado no hace que la vida sea mejor.» Amanda se queda a la vez sin novio y sin trabajo y decide ir a un pueblo perdido en busca de la herencia de su tía Irene, de la que sabe muy poco. Unas cartas antiguas le mostrarán quien fue de verdad su tía a la vez que cambiarán su propia vida de manera inesperada.