Since Malthus and his theory of overpopulation, with the consequent scarcity of resources, the colonization of new planets is always a horizon that, for now, has only been addressed by Science Fiction. Especially as a result of the first incursion on the Moon ratifying what was expected, there is no human ...
The versatile Enrique Vila-Matas offers us the latest in the mosaic of his literary creation. Doctor Pasavento + Bastian Schneider is the story of a writer, that kind of magic mirror in which the author has no choice but to recognize part of himself left in the protagonist ...
What does it mean to behave like adults in the current capitalist system? Isn't the stock market a board for fickle kids who only think about making more and more money and reaching the finish line first? The point is that there is no other choice but to play. And although ...
We have not forgotten what it means to listen. We can still do it. But more and more, the action of listening loses nuances to become uncomfortably waiting for a turn before speaking. With another added problem: if someone refutes our ideas, our entire response will be, with high probability, to close ourselves more ...
On the back of his horse, an inquisitor looked at me incredulously. I've seen his face somewhere else. I've always memorized people's faces. Of course, if I even differentiate my head of cattle one by one. But right now it's hard for me to remember, I'm blocked by ...
Our relationship with death leads us to a kind of fatal coexistence where each one assumes the countdown in the best way he can. Dying is the ultimate Contradiction, and Jostein Gaarder knows it. The protagonist of this new story by the great author is in a particular ...
The stories were, and I want to believe that they still are, a wonderful way to form a tribe, to make the little ones participate in the beliefs, myths, values and other circumstances of all kinds that affect a community, region, country or even continent. Africa is a diverse continent, but one that conforms ...
The saga of the Fifty Shades of Gray, worthy of Freudian interpretations and the basis for the economic resurgence of the sex shops, has also been a renaissance of erotic literature. It is not that this type of narrative has been completely relegated, there have always been writers (many of them first ...
Children are a great way to become children again. That frozen imagination between formalisms, uses and customs of adults disappear when we interact with the little ones. And we can become fabulous that keep our little ones spellbound. But we will probably never forget our role as parent-guardians. Constructed fables ...
Sometimes the thriller borders us with undeniable overtones of verisimilitude. Especially when issues around politics, power, the economy, bribery, corruption ... The family is the cell of modern society, as they say. And in that metaphor it can also appear ...
"Other ways to tell you that I love you." This is the subtitle of this novel. And the thing is that in the «things of wanting» there are as many wants as there are people. A book of feminine worlds, of love and also of sex, desires and desires (and the confusion of both). Eva, Carla, ...
In this book The Last Gift of Paulina Hoffmann we revisit the Second World War to immerse ourselves in one of those personal stories that emerge between the physical rubble of the city of Berlin and between the gray misery that uniformed the souls of so many victims on the inside. Paulina ...