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Aurora Caceres' compelling novel "La rosa muerta" was set in Paris where it was published in 1914. In a work sharing formal characteristics with modernista prose, Caceres challenged the ideological parameters of the movement. While her protagonist appropriated the modernista precept of women as subjects to male veneration, she also took active control of her sexual life in a world where husbands still treated their wives as objects. The objects in this novel are not people but implements of communication and medicine, reflective of the apogee of the industrial age. The action, which takes...

JAPÓN, 1600. En un Japón feudal devastado por la guerra, dos hermanos separados por sus ideales, lucharán hasta el final por lo que creen correcto y cumplirán con sus destinos, aunque sean completamente diferentes. Contenido. Capítulo 13: La noche antes.

‘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...

La novela está protagonizada por el inspector William Monk, su esposa Hester y el amigo de ambos, el juez Oliver Rathbone. Hester, que es enfermera en un centro para prostitutas y mujeres de la calle, por ayudar a una compañera, Josephine Raleigh, investi