¿Quién decide el destino de los hombres?

La literatura «religiosa» vende. Por eso cada año se publican cientos de libros, novelas, ensayos y relatos que tienen que ver con lo religioso en sentido amplio: misterio, fantasía, "thriller" con personajes sobrenaturales o con secretos de la Biblia o del Vaticano, magia, seres mitológicos, personas con poderes, temas de ocultismo, profecías, escenas apocalípticas relacionadas con el fin del mundo o desastres ecológicos. Todo lo que esté relacionado con lo misterioso, mágico, mitológico y religioso vende mucho. La gente lo compra, lo lee y más tarde muchos de esos temas aparecen ...

Miguel is a naughty and curious boy. He found a thread in his garden, he pull of the thread, but he does not that this thread belong of the moon… but suddenly the moon started to dissolves.

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...