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A contemptible writer writes his masterpiece, a screenplay for Soviet Hollywood in a futuristic past in which Argentina and a good portion of the world have joined the USSR against the rest of the world: the capitalist countries with New York as their capital city. In this hypothetical socialist Argentina the betrayals are the same ones they have always been: political in appearance, but quite human in reality, more tied to people’s characters than to the rules that they use to try to organize themselves. Un escritor despreciable escribe la obra de su vida, un guión cinematográfico para...

At the center of this novel are two women—worlds apart, yet neighbors—who come together by chance in a neighborhood pharmacy. Janna, a middle-aged contemporary woman is the editor of a women's magazine. She is good at her work and her life seems to her a success. Then there is Maudie, skinny, rag-and-bone tattered and in her late eighties, she is a bundle of ferocity who has spent the last years sustaining herself on pride, and expressing that pride as a cat’s hissing anger. This strong and affecting novel traces the friendship of these wildly disparate women.

Los mitos llegan hasta nosotros desde tiempos remotos por tradición oral, que es la forma de transmitir, desde tiempos anteriores a la escritura, la cultura, la experiencia y las tradiciones de una sociedad a través de relatos, cantos, oraciones, leyendas, fábulas, mitos, cuentos, etc. Los mitos se han ido transmitiendo de padres a hijos, de generación a generación, hasta llegar a nuestros días, y tienen como función primordial conservar lo que se llama la “memoria colectiva”, los conocimientos ancestrales a través de los tiempos. En muchas sociedades, el cultivo de las...

Un paesaggio colombiano a metà tra la selva e l’oceano, dove si è condannati alla resistenza inquieta. Un matrimonio distante con un pescatore, destinato ad amplificare la solitudine di una donna dal corpo che sfascia le cose. In questo scenario «al di là dell’ultimo cerchio dell’inferno», la protagonista de La cagna decide di adottare una cagnolina chiamata Chirli: è il nome che avrebbe voluto dare alla figlia mai nata, un nome da «reginetta di bellezza». Da quel giorno Damaris inizia a creare un legame simbiotico con l’animale; Chirli viene colonizzata da un carico di amore...