Adiós, pero conmigo

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...

Dulce dueño by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era.Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a...

"Es paradójico, la sensibilidad sin valentía es solo egoísmo que carcome. En Madrid puedo creer que soy mejor. Allí no tengo pasado, o si lo tengo, es solo una maraña que aparecen cuando abro la boca y se define en el imaginario de la persona con quien converso. ¿Cómo serán mi casa, mi familia y mis amigos en ese lugar que no conozco?" Nominada a mejor novela del 2016 en los Premios Luces del Diario El Comercio.

Este artefacto novelesco que lleva por título "2023", pese a que en su arranque se nos plantea como una novela al uso, acaba por convertirse en un disparatado divertimento con un objetivo que trasciende el marco de la propia narración para celebrar, a modo de memorias noveladas, las andanzas de los dos sociópatas más añorados del indie pop británico. Nos referimos a Bill Drummond y Jimmy Cauty, más conocidos como The KLF o The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, un inefable dueto que decidió desaparecer de la faz de la tierra sin dejar rastro hará exactamente 23 años el 23 de agosto de...