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Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...

Human, she can't be his. Without his help, she won’t survive the streets or the rogue vampires who killed her sister... He's the king. And he’s done taking orders. Furious at the Elder Council's demand that he find a wife, Kyn monarch, Marak, takes to the streets to vent his rage on the rogue vampires who plague the city. He doesn't expect to find a sexy vampire hunter who has no idea who he is nor his primal and all-consuming reaction to her. She's human, so he can't claim her. Rather than see her slaughtered, he agrees to train her, get her ready to hunt… and do his best to keep his...

Cosas que pasan recrea el entorno que condiciona nuestros primeros años; el camino emprendido que, a partir de ese entorno, ha de dar contenido a nuestra vida; el modo en el que lo instintivamente antagónico y lo instintivamente afín irá modificando nuestra conducta; el papel de lo aleatorio; la estrecha relación entre pulsión sexual y creación literaria; el vértigo que todo ello produce ante la consideración de lo que es o pueda ser el universo.

Novela difícilmente clasificable llena de andanzas, de encanto y de maravillosa extrañeza, Orlando (1928) narra los avatares a lo largo de más de trescientos años de quien empieza siendo un caballero de la corte isabelina inglesa y acaba siendo mujer en el siglo XX. Producto en parte de la ambigua pasión de Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) por Vita Sackville-West y antecedente singular del realismo fantástico, la historia de su protagonista, ambientada siempre en sugerentes escenarios e impregnada por la particular obsesión de su autora por el transcurso del tiempo, se desliza como un...