Hombres sin conciencia (Colección Oeste)

Lord Copper is proud of his ability to discover talented reporters. However, due to a confusion of surnames he sends the most improbable journalist possible to 'cover' a civil war in an African Republic. Evelyn Waugh launches a ferocious satire about the world of journalism, special envoys, and information.

Karl Ove leaves Norway and his wife and travels to Stockholm. The book describes the sensation of falling in love again and the long, dramatic period before he and Linda form a stable relationship. Later: the pleasures and pains of paternity, family life, and the need to write, the urgency of creation.

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...

«Alberto Ruy Sánchez es la mejor carta que tiene la literatura mexicana y una de las mejores de nuestra lengua.» -Octavio Paz Éste es un libro escrito sobre la piel, como un tatuaje ritual del deseo. En nueve capítulos de nueve fragmentos cada uno, escuchamos leyendas sobre el origen de Mogador dentro de nuestra piel, sobre la conducta peculiar de la luz y el tiempo entre sus murallas, sobre los métodos que allá usan para cantar sus historias, sobre la severa dictadura de la piel, el sabor de las palabras, las bibliotecas sorpresivas y la música elemental del cuerpo. Termina, como es...