When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu and travels across Sib…
«Hoy ha muerto una anciana a la que yo quería. A menudo pensaba: "Le debo tanto." O: "Sin ella, probablemente ya no estaría aquí." Pensaba: "Es tan importante para mí." Importar, deber. ¿Es así como s…
Pedro Lemebel desafía todo intento catalogador. "Irónico, sarcástico, salvajemente paródico, cursi, relamido, retorcido y, ademas, tierno, divertido y siempre intenso, abrumadoramente lírico," este es…
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri…
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and t…
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the origi…
"Il existe des êtres qui ne subissent pas la loi de l'évolution. Ce sont les légumes cliniques", ou des tubes par où circule seule la nourriture. Ces tubes ne sont pas pour autant sans cervelle puisqu…
