Filosofía y vanguardia en la obra literaria de J.M.G Le Clézio

Una colección de ensayos sobre el arte de la novela, por el ganador del Premio IMPAC y el Premio Alfaguara de Novela. Los seres humanos, sostiene este libro, no hemos inventado la novela: es la novela la que nos ha inventado a nosotros. Pero ¿qué nos dan las novelas que no nos puede dar ninguna otra forma narrativa? ¿Qué lugar ocupan en nuestras vidas como individuos y como sociedades? ¿Por qué son, según Vásquez, una manera irremplazable de investigarnos a nosotros mismos, y cómo llevan a cabo sus sortilegios? De Cervantes a Conrad, de Tolstoi a Vargas Llosa, de Proust a Camus,...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Los cerca de sesenta relatos de horror que escribió H.P. Lovecraft en su corta vida le dieron una nueva dimensión a la literatura de terror, que ya no sería la misma después de él. Lovecraft logró trascender el horror puramente humano de diablos, brujas y vampiros e intuyó una realidad oculta, cósmica, terrorífica, y apenas descriptible: imaginó un espantoso panteón de deidades, los «Primordiales» o «Grandes Antiguos», con el dios ciego e idiota Azatoth a la cabeza («una ruina amorfa de absoluta confusión que blasfema y babea en el centro del infinito»), Yog-Sothoth,...

Once upon a time, there was a mouse who lived in Europe who longed to go to America, the land of liberty, and be reunited with his friends who had fled. He decides the best way to get there would be to fly. He makes many attempts until he finally designs the perfect plane. His successful voyage inspires an entire nation, including a young boy named Charles Lindbergh. Children will love the detailed illustrations and the mouse's determination in spite of some failed attempts in this very original picture book. A brief history of aviation is included at the end of the book.