The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, the…
«Sentada en su trono, la condesa mira torturar y oye gritar. Sus viejas y horribles sirvientas son figuras silenciosas que traen fuego, cuchillos, agujas, atizadores; que torturan muchachas, que luego…
4.48 Psychosis sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple, into the…
Publicamos ahora en una colección de poesía la obra poética completa —libros de poemas editados en vida de la autora y poemas inéditos compilados a partir de manuscritos— de Alejandra Pizarnik, una de…
Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adolescencia de una niña atrapada en un cuerpo que no sabe habitar, que intenta comprenderse a sí misma y…
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag s…
