Predadores de silencio

Obra ganadora del PRIMER PREMIO DE LITERATURA INFANTIL DE EDITORIAL SIETE ISLAS 2021. SINOPSIS: Frida es muy friki, tanto que ha construido una Batcueva con su abuela y montado una agencia clandestina de detectives, tanto que copia los exámenes para NO sacar siempre sobresalientes y resultar todavía más friki. Sus héroes son Steve Jobs, Isaac Asimov y Sherlock Holmes. Para ella todo resulta elemental hasta que su hermana mayor, Giulietta, deja de actuar de forma razonable. Y es que Giulietta se ha enamorado y Frida no lo entiende. O su hermana ha sido poseída por un ultracuerpo...

Luis Barahona reivindica una Costa Rica con pensamiento de identidad. Nos lleva a través de su vívida prosa, a las márgenes del discurso donde convergen lo imaginario y lo real. Allí nos encontramos con el ideario de Mario Sancho, Pío Víquez, Víctor Manuel Sanabria y Manuel de Jesús Jiménez; con las reflexiones acerca de la paz, las ideas estéticas, la picaresca y el idealismo del Quijote. Animado por la idiosincracia de un Cartago y una Costa Rica todavía iluminados por el pensamiento hispanoamericano, como confluencia filosófica, nos deja el valor de hechos y personalidades que...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...

The story of a small French town during the 19th century. When a beautiful young woman moves into an old run down house, strange things start to happen.