Religio medici. La religión de un médico

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.

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.

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Una revolucionaria teoría sobre el origen del universo y qué pasó antes del Big Bang. En su conocida obra Historia del tiempo, Stephen Hawking afirmaba que preguntar qué había antes del origen del universo es tan absurdo como preguntar qué hay al norte del polo Norte. Desde Einstein, el Big Bang era la última frontera que ningún físico se atrevía a cruzar. Incluso para la teoría general de la relatividad ese punto ha sido considerado una singularidad que no se puede calcular y cuyas reglas físicas no están definidas. Es el punto en que comienza para nosotros el universo. Pese a...