El Angel y el Príncipe de Clasclaban

Fulbert is fully happy, the system provides him “a charming life”. However, real life continues there, stalking, inescapable, and nothing can avoid the unforeseen circumstances of fate. Through twelve stories, Alicia Fenieux invites us to visit a future where real life coexists with fictitious realities as well as holograms and avatars do so with humans of flesh and blood; a world where the longing for the past is as strong as the fascination that arouse science and technology. It is the daily life of the years to come with its intimate, disconcerting and also ferocious dilemmas; a future ...

Una estancia de inmigrantes en las arboledas chaqueñas de Santiago del Estero, es azotada por una presencia maligna y una serie de infortunios inevitables en los que, cada vez que en una familia nace una mujer y un hombre, este último no sobrevive a su juventud. A finales del siglo XIX, nadie deja de pensar en un hecho sucedido en el pasado entre dos hermanos indígenas de la zona, que habría desencadenado una maldición, y Francisco del Castillo, un criollo descendiente de andaluces, debe terminar con la desgracia o al menos escapar de su fatídico destino: hijo único y a punto de...

‘Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ‘People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ‘punishment’ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech...

Edmond y Amanda continúan con su locura de matrimonio y se disponen a visitar a los padres de Edmond, cuyo padre especialmente resulta ser una persona irrespetuosa. Amanda le pide a Edmond que le haga perder la virginidad a cambio de ayudarle y, cuando lo hace, ella quiere cada vez más. Asimismo, el la sorprende con un viaje a Atlanta para visitar a su madre y ella lo recompensa a él (y a ella misma) como se merece...