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A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

It collects the lectures and communications of the II Jornades sobre Teoria i Crítica dels Discursos Creatius (II Meeting about Creative Discourse's Theory and Critic). The contributions around this topic were given by Antoni Marí, Lluís Meseguer, Sam Abrams, Josep Maria Fulquet, Enric Satué, Juan Manuel Vera, Marta Conejero, Amparo Hurtado, Maria Oliver, among others.

Las eternas “Fábulas de Bidpai”, reunidas hace unos 2.000 años en el Panchatantra traducidas desde Etiopía hasta China , y que inspiraron a autores tan diversos como Esopo, La Fontaine, Llull, y Chaucer, han sido retomadas por Ramsay Wood quien las vuelve a contar con un lenguaje moderno y divertido, respetuoso y energético.

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."