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La aportación de Edgar Allan Poe a la ficción norteamericana fue crucial en un momento en el que la imaginación en la creación novelística se había puesto en tela de juicio. Su obra, variada, irregular y original, se ajustó, tanto en prosa como en poesía, a los criterios estéticos más innovadores. El presente volumen incluye trece relatos representativos de la capacidad de Poe para describir las sensaciones del individuo al borde de la locura, la obsesión por explorar los contornos irracionales de la mente, la tortura mental de sus héroes solitarios y alienados, la enigmática y...

Liliana Castagnola, affascinante artista del varietà italiano del primo Novecento, si rivela attraverso l'immaginario, la sensibilità e le ricerche storiche di due donne che, pure in epoche diverse e lontane, si trovano casualmente a confrontarsi con affinità d'animo e con quanto Liliana ha sofferto e vissuto. Attraverso i complessi retroscena di un successo mai facile, si dipana la vivacità d'animo e culturale di un'epoca di bellezza e divertimento in cui la sua triste storia appare come inevitabile lato d'ombra.

Aurora Caceres' compelling novel "La rosa muerta" was set in Paris where it was published in 1914. In a work sharing formal characteristics with modernista prose, Caceres challenged the ideological parameters of the movement. While her protagonist appropriated the modernista precept of women as subjects to male veneration, she also took active control of her sexual life in a world where husbands still treated their wives as objects. The objects in this novel are not people but implements of communication and medicine, reflective of the apogee of the industrial age. The action, which takes...

When the encounter long sought by mankind -- first contact with intelligent beings from outer space -- occurred two years ago in a remote area of the Idaho Panhandle, the event was not marked in the heavens with strange lights or on Earth with newspaper headlines. It began prosaically one Thursday morning in late May... "Where are you from?" She glanced toward the eastern ridge, studying it, and for a moment he thought she might point to a rock or a tree. Weighing her answer carefully, she pointed toward the top of the ridge and said, "From there." "From the other side of the mountain?" he...