El valor literario del Lázaro de 1555

Un autor es un antes que nada un lector. En La distracción Sergio Missana nos invita a seguir los recorridos de sus lecturas por heterogéneas tradiciones y épocas. Textos sólidos, muy bien escritos, eruditos; que miran de cerca a sus personajes y a sus creadores comprendiendo disímiles poéticas. Quizás lo más importante para un autor es generar un mundo y dotarlo de lenguaje. Esa es la operación que observa, con lupa, este libro que desentraña la máquina ficcional de Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Bernhard, Doris Lessing, Marcel Proust, Nicanor Parra, entre otros.

Historia de amor turbulento en el entorno de una rica hacienda en la Pampa del sur de Brasil en el siglo XIX.

In Las hojas que caen tells her own childhood story: that of a Chinese girl who suffers the abandonment of her stepmother and even her own family. Her determination to survive enables her to overcome experiences in her life which would have destroyed any human being.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...