Shinjuku Blues

Resulta sorprendente en Lo breve si breve (Cuentos sobre polículas cortas), que aunque en todos los relatos los cortometrajes ocupan un lugar importante en los argumentos o tramas ninguno se parece entre sí, ni siquiera en el género, y ofrecen una rica variedad debida a la mirada genuina y particular de cada uno de los autores. Impresiona verdaderamente, la nómina de escritores que aceptaron el juego propuesto: Pedro Ugarte, Jose Luis Muñoz, Manuel Hidalgo, Fernando Marías, Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta, David Torres, Miguel González San Martín, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, Elia Barceló, Andreu...

La esclava de su galán. Félix Lope de Vega: Fragmento de la obra Jornada primera (Salen Doña Elena, dama, y Don Juan, estudiante.) Doña Elena: Esto se acabó, don Juan. Don Juan: No es ese lenguaje tuyo, y de ese término arguyo que mal consejo te dan. Doña Elena: Eso de argüir es bueno 5 para escuelas. Don Juan: Novedad. Elena, tu voluntad sin argumentos condeno. Doña Elena: Confieso que la he tenido. Don Juan: Qué mala suposición. 10 Doña Elena: Pues yo, don Juan, ¿qué lición, qué facultad he leído? Don Juan: Aguardo la consecuencia. Doña Elena: Habla como para mí. Don...

Bay doesn't remember her house in west Australia, nor her garden on the coral reef of Ningaloo. She has forgotten that she was fighting to save the oceans and that whales were her family. She doesn't recognize the faces that now look at her. Her mother is a mystery and keeps only a few photos and many books with her father's oceanographic knowledge. In the attempt to draw a past erased from her mind, she will encounter multiple versions of who she was, with hidden truths and quiet secrets.

Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho ...