The Dream of Heroes, by Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Fantasy, touched by an author such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, a down-to-earth, existentialist guy, deep in his way of narrating his different detective novels or even science fiction, ends up endowing this specific literary work with a singular nature to halfway between estrangement ...

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It seems a lie, by Juan del val

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Juan del Val has had the pleasure of reencountering who he was. Another him from not so long ago, from not so many customs and vices, from not so many years ago. Any intention of autobiography becomes part of a fictionalized life. The memory, in its plot ...

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Spaces of freedom, by Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa

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There was a time when art and culture moved according to the dictates of authority. Quite an outrage at the height of many others committed by the Franco regime. The control of all popular expression was part of that domain over the consciousness of the ...

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The stone radio, by Juan Herrera

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There are things that despite their inert nature, accumulate life. This is the case of those galena radios that broke in at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, when we can see them in a museum or during an exhibition, or even in the home of one of those privileged people who still have a copy, ...

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The thread of blood, by Ernesto Mallo

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The past can be so cruel as to be infatuated with returning when one begins to be happy. That is what happens to the Lascan Dog. Just when his retirement from the police practice favors the calm of a love always badly healed and therefore pending with Eva, the past ...

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Lovers of Prague, by Alyson Richman

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Love is always an exceptional literary argument when it does not finish materializing in time, although it does in its essence, that which is burned into memory and ends up transforming the past into an idealized space. And it is that sometimes love ends up being parked by ...

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The aesthetic reason, by Chantal Maillard

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The idiosyncrasies of each town, marked by imageries full of symbols and by the references of the predecessors who occupied the same space, gradually opened up towards a hodgepodge, if not uniformity, with the rest of the towns in areas of increasingly wider influence. . Today …

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The Alley House, by David Mitchell

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A decadent setting offers a mysterious charm where melancholy of other times and gloomy fantasies of what that space can still house are mixed. Echoes of the past, whispers that seem to narrate the chilling causes of this deterioration ..., endless evocations for every observer, listener or reader. The gate …

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The Colossus of New York, by Colson Whitehead

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Nobody better than a writer usually fiction like Colson Whitehead to present a city that lives between the reality of being a universal city and the fiction of becoming a cinematographic city par excellence. Colson's eyes are an incomparable tool for that viewing of the Big Apple as ...

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The Heart of Men, by Nickolas Butler

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When someone like Nickolas Butler set out to write one of those life stories, in which we know the characters from infancy to full maturity, he was running a natural risk of falling into the naive when it came to the first narrative of ages. children respects. ...

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Sirius, the Dog Who Almost Changed History, by Jonathan Crown

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Stories with animals as protagonists. Beyond the predilection of George Orwell, evident in works such as Rebellion on the Farm, recent authors present total protagonism to the companion animals par excellence, the dogs. Laurent Watt awakened our most tender instincts for these faithful and loyal animals ...

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Beauty is a wound, by Eka Kurniawan

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What could happen to a missing woman for twenty years? If the approach is already suggestive from the perspective of a society like ours, the matter takes a sinister turn if we locate the plot in Indonesia. In this country where religion and government intertwine until complete confusion, ...

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