Lo grotesco

A collection of realistic short stories that breach topics ranging from the death of a parent to teen pregnancy.

"Alfredo Rodríguez a sus cincuenta años, lo tiene todo: prestancia, prestigio profesional, situación económica envidiable, una esposa linda, enamorada y refinada, hijos inteligentes, y una amante apasionada con infinitos recursos eróticos. Sin embargo, una serie de acontecimientos viene a alterar su vida. Como el protagonista afirmó una vez: "a veces es necesario desaparecer de uno mismo (...) perder para ganar otra cosa que no sea del mismo orden” y tal afirmación adquiere un sentido premonitorio. El gran empresario, el hombre de éxito, frío e inescrupuloso, —por algo le dicen...

Adriana Davidova - actress, writer and journalist - and Cristina Yela - psychotherapist, and director and presenter of the the radio program Salud en Madrid - joined to write the book. Testimonies from women who have experienced physical and psychological pain.

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary...