Don Magín, profesor y mártir

«Un caso sin resolver es un estigma en la piel de la memoria criminal; un misterio que perdura a lo largo del tiempo como una huella imborrable». Una serie de casos olvidados en archivos policiales será el denominador común de las tres historias que componen este volumen de Magazine criminal; tres relatos «aparentemente» independientes que, como si se tratase de las piezas de un puzle, forman parte de una trama general que los envuelve a todos: El primero de ellos es una novela completa que lleva por título Una sombra en la penumbra: Ambientada en la década de los 90, recrea los...

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

A passionate and solitary inventor of agricultural machinery fights for love and recognition from his community. Through this partially autobiographical tale, author Sherwood Anderson aims his critique on the rise of technology and industries at the turn of the century. At the same time, he recreates a story where nature has no judgments and beauty is troubling. Pobre blanco was praised by writers such as H. L. Mencken and Hart Crane when it was originally published. It remains a curiously contemporary novel and a marvelous testimony to Anderson.

Tras esta fachada impoluta, sin embargo, se ocultan otros temas igualmente interesantes: el conflicto del escritor con su tiempo, su lucha por el reconocimiento y, en especial, su condición de bufón de una sociedad que nunca llegó a considerarlo un verdadero literato