Los hijos de Huitzilopochtli

A young Australian travelling for academic purposes in Europe visits a monastery in Spain and is waylaid by an old man selling his produce by the roadside at a nearby war cemetery. He innocently asks about the massive eucalypt trees in the monastery grounds and is then entranced by the old man and the story he tells of their history which weaves together the secret 16th-century exploration of Terra Australis, the Emperor Charles V, the dedication of a botanist, fundamentals of gardening and the wonder of Nature. "I found myself translating a story written by someone I hardly knew, about some...

La nave de los necios (1494) no sólo es la obra alemana más importante del siglo XV, sino la que dio a conocer esta literatura en Europa. Su éxito fue tan grande que llegó a crear un género nuevo de literatura y a influir en Erasmo y otros grandes escritores. El autor, Sebastián Brant, nos pinta una nave cargada de necios, locos y pecadores a punto de naufragar. Se trata, pues, de toda la sociedad, que ha roto amarras con la Edad Media y no encuentra puerto. Con rigor, Brant fustiga a príncipes y lacayos, hombres y mujeres, blasfemos y usureros. Más de un centenar de mecedades, que...

«Ora, bambini, vi racconterò una storia...» In questa raccolta inedita che il Saggiatore pubblica in esclusiva per i lettori italiani, David Peace diventa la voce oscura che racconta gli incubi più terribili, le apparizioni più sinistre di uno spettro dalle sembianze umane, seguendone i passi da vicino, accompagnandolo, insieme al lettore, tra i vortici delle sue allucinazioni.Negli abissi dell’Inferno, un uomo condannato per le azioni malvagie commesse in vita tenta difuggire arrampicandosi sul filo sottilissimo teso da un ragno. Un tempo era stato un grande scrittore, venerato e...

A reptilian race is desperate to survive the threat of extinction and needs a new home. Could Earth, known across the universe as Teraboo, be a candidate? This planet has been misused by its current human inhabitants and either the Federations of Systems and Galaxies or the universe’s five gods and goddesses will decide which race has the right to live there. With a missing bacteriological weapon and a mysterious destructive figure wreaking havoc across the universe, the warrior Titans and the Avengers of the universe, whose mission is to serve and protect, to assist and to triumph, will...