Femfatales

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...

«Su obra es una puesta en duda de los valores entendidos, una forma creativa de la desconfianza.» Juan Villoro

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

Una novela Romántica con intriga y venganza ambientada en diversas ciudades y países. Ignacio y Carlota se conocen en las fallas de Gandía, desde el primer instante sienten una fuerte atracción. Adela, que se siente traicionado y sustituida porque Ignacio la ha dejado por Carlota, se venga provocando un accidente de tráfico, en el cual muere. Tras el traumático episodio, él se va a Zaragoza con su hija recién nacida Minerva. Paz, la hermana de Carlota intentará vengarse al creer que Ignacio fue el causante del accidente. La intriga, el desen- gaño y la pasión jugarán papeles...