Cómo encender un dragón apagado

What would you do if you found out you only had months to live? In Jenny Downham's debut novel, Tessa must grapple with this situation. This book will make all readers reflect upon the true value of things.

J.M.G. Le Clézio es un escritor atípico, que ha viajado literariamente por territorios muy distintos. Este estudio se adentra en la década que abarca desde 1963 a 1973, época en la que Le Clézio incorpora a su edificio narrativo una amalgama de filosofías heterogéneas que van desde la filosofía presocrática, pasando por la filosofía zen, hasta llegar a una manera de entender el mundo de signo existencialista que se manifiesta, en el plano formal, en su vinculación al fenómeno del Nouveau roman.

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...

Penguin is sick and tired of so much snow and decides he needs a tropical vacation. When he arrives at the beach, he makes a life-long friend that shows him how to play in a warm climate. Penguin gets to return the favor in this adorable picture book when his new pal Crab comes to his icy home.