Muerte en la rectoría

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim... In the stories collected here—including Blow-Up, on which Antonioni based his film—Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form.

While few among Hans Christian Andersen's characters know a truly happy ending, generations of readers across the centuries have crowned him as perhaps the most popular and beloved author in his genre. Andersen's own humble origins and the extreme poverty in which he grew up are echoed in the often harsh fictional worlds he created, and this wonderful collection compiles 200 of his most memorable stories--all in their original versions.

Haber publicado en mi vida más de un centenar de ensayos literarios de diversa extensión se explica, no tanto por el cumplimiento de una obligación como por el disfrute inmenso de leer y pensar la literatura. Mi trabajo universitario en México me ha dado la oportunidad reiterada de enfrentarme a la literatura y reflexionar sobre ella. Leer, decía Borges, es una actividad más placentera y civilizada que la de escribir. Lo es porque un buen lector reescribe cada libro que lee. La política editorial y el respeto al lector me han obligado a seleccionar, de ese centenar, sólo treinta y...

In this essay about the challenges, decisions, and conflicts that surround men in contemporary Mexico, Juana In�s Dehesa applies the analytical intelligence and humor that characterize her as an author. She explores why men want to be single (at least in her experience), why they don't call you, why they disappear after the third date, how the define love, and what their emotional aspirations are that govern their lives. This highly anticipated response to Treintona, soltera y fant�stica, gives a strong but loving dose of reality.