Soñar en ruso. El imaginario cubano-soviético

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

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...

Templesmith y Ellis, juntos por primera vez en un proyecto tan inclasificable como incontestable. Warren Ellis (The Authority, Planetary) y Ben Templesmith (Singularity 7, Wormwood) nos traen la historia de Richard Fell, un detective de homicidios venido a menos, que busca empezar de nuevo su vida personal y profesional. Snowtown es una ciudad fundada por maníacos donde nada parece tener sentido y todo el mundo esconde algo. Incluso él.

Con un enfoque deleuziano, Fermín A. Rodríguez construye una obra “esencial para comprender la geografía imaginaria del interminable y múltiple desierto argentino” (Ricardo Piglia). Un recorrido cabal por la literatura del desierto (desde Humboldt, Hudson y Darwin, pasando por José Hernández, Lucio V. Mansilla, Sarmiento y Rosas, hasta Saer, Aira y Gamerro); por esos textos que proporcionaron las maneras de ver y pensar un espacio que se leía como vacante frente a la ausencia de un estado-nación que lo regulara, pero que no estaba justamente vacío. Este libro es, como afirma su...