Guadalupe Nettel
Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel’s stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human foibles. Following on the critical successes of her previous books, here are six stories that capture her unsettling, obsessive universe. “Ptosis” is told from the point of view of the son of a photographer whose work involves before and after pictures of patients undergoing cosmetic eye surgeries. In “Through Shades,” a woman studies a man interacting with a woman through the windows of the apartment across the street. In one of the longer stories, “Bonsai,” a man visits a garden, and comes to know a gardener, during the period of dissolution of his marriage. “The Other Side of the Dock” describes a young girl in search of what she terms “True Solitude,” who finds a fellow soul mate only to see the thing they share lose its meaning. In “Petals,” a woman’s odor drives a man to search for her, and even to find her, without quenching the thirst that is his undoing. And the title story, “Bezoar,” is an intimate journal of a patient writing to a doctor. Each narrative veers towards unknown and dark corridors, and the pleasures of these accounts lie partly in the great surprise of the familiarity together with the strangeness.

Jon Fosse
La novela más reciente del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023. Una magnífica e intensa pieza literaria de cadencia hipnótica. La obra de Fosse es un enigma que da vida y esperanza a quien la lee. Ilumina el alma humana como solo lo hacen los elegidos. Manuel VilasUn hombre conduce sin un rumbo en mente, hasta que su coche queda atascado al final de una pista forestal. Es una tarde de finales de otoño, ya casi no hay luz y comienza a nevar. En lugar de volver caminando hacia atrás en busca de ayuda o quedarse en el coche, de forma imprudente y sin saber muy bien por qué, el hombre decide adentrarse en el bosque. Inevitablemente, se pierde, y la noche sigue avanzando. Cuando el agotamiento y el frío empiezan a vencerlo, vislumbra un extraño resplandor en medio de la oscuridad. Blancura es la última novela de Jon Fosse. El autor galardonado con el Nobel arrastra al lector en una narración enigmática, inquietante e hipnótica: una lectura tan breve como intensa.La crítica ha dicho: El Beckett del siglo veintiuno. Le Monde Uno de los más importantes escritores europeos.

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer’s intended victim . . .

Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name—shows Julio Cortázar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.

Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems--the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work--from Borges' first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los Conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986. Throughout this unique collection the brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched by luminous English versions by a remarkable cast of translators, including Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, and John Updike.

Ray Bradbury
Four classics of the imagination from one of America’s most beloved authors–including the complete Martian Chronicles.

A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. To explore the worlds of his books, his astonishing futures and haunting pasts, is to rediscover the wondrous possibilities of life. This Library of America edition gathers four of his greatest works in a single volume. Here is The Martian Chronicles in the complete form Bradbury came to prefer, its twenty-eight linked story-chapters offering visionary glimpses of our spacefaring future. In the dystopian thriller Fahrenheit 451, books and all they contain are forbidden. Dandelion Wine distills the enchanting essences of a childhood summer, while Something Wicked This Way Comes conjures the wild, centrifugal imaginings of youthful terror, in a fight to the death against supernatural foes. Biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers a newly researched chronology of Bradbury’s life and career and detailed textual and explanatory notes.

JEAN MICHEL GUESDON
"Bruce Springsteen: La historia detrás de sus 344 canciones invita a sumergirse en la obra del músico, mediante el análisis en profundidad de todos sus temas publicados, desde ""Blinded By The Light"", del álbum Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. de 1973, hasta ""I'll See You In My Dreams"", del Letter To You de 2020.Génesis de las composiciones, interpretación de las letras, detalles de las grabaciones, anécdotas sorprendentes…: esta biografía desgrana íntegramente la discografía oficial de Springsteen. Los autores aportan su exploración personal de la obra del Boss y un gran número de entrevistas concedidas por el propio artista y por quienes lo han acompañado a lo largo de 50 años de intensa carrera: sus compañeros en la E Street Band, los músicos de estudio y sus productores e ingenieros de sonido."

Poemas sin rima escritos entre 1920 y 2020 que, como tesoros extraordinarios, encienden la llama de esta singular Cajita de fósforos. En esta antología, 36 poetas de diez países distintos celebran un siglo de poesía no rimada en Iberoamérica.

Artista: Sofia Weidner

Artista: Sofia Weidner