Ángeles Mastretta: Textual Multiplicity (Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 217)

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

Sze's poetry is bold and versatile and brings together "disparate realms of experience." -The New Yorker

Partiendo de la celebre meditación de John Donne, Nuccio Ordine amplía su "biblioteca ideal" invitándonos a leer--y a releer--más páginas escogidas de la literatura universal. Convencido de que una cita brillante puede despertar la curiosidad del lector y animarlo a leer la obra de la que procede, Ordine continúa su defensa de los clásicos, demostrando que la literatura es fundamental para fomentar el entendimiento y la compasión entre las personas. En una epoca marcada por el individualismo, las terribles desigualdades sociales y económicas, el miedo al "forastero" y el racismo,...