Polvo de jade

Excerpt from Memorias de Nemesio García Naranjo, Vol. 6: Elevacion y Caida de Don Francisco I. Madero La misión de quien redacta un prólogo para un libro es, indiscutiblemente, la de aquilatar las cualidades que se reunen en el autor del li bro, para que, impresionando al lector, con la enumeración y comprobación de las bellezas de que la obra esté impregnada, se apresure a leerlo, en la seguridad de que se va a solazar con la lectura. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a...

Tal vez un día quise ser un hombre bueno, pero para ese entonces yo era ya un laberinto con demasiadas habitaciones a oscuras... Figuras humanas ofrece un intermedio lírico, compuesto por poemas. Queda claro: Luis Jorge Boone asume riesgos; cree en la palabra. La prosa de Luis Jorge Boone le ha ganado importantes premios literarios, y este libro es un refrendo de su calidad. Boone sabe trabajar con las palabras y construir historias, en el caso de los cuentos que integran este volumen, todas trazadas a partir de elementos cotidianos y de una aparente "normalidad". El lector encontrará...

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.

From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day, a flamboyant stranger rides into the village, upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer, "the other," and tensions rise until, one night, the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death, but his report delivers much...