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Siddharta
Hermann Hesse · 2017
La cabeza de mi padre
Alma Delia Murillo · 2023
La tumba
José Agustín · 2011
Aura
Carlos Fuentes · 2011
Los Relampagos de agosto
Jorge Ibargüengoitia · 2014
El Tunel
Ernesto Sabato · 1984
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2013
Mis muertos tristes
Mariana Enríquez
El prodigioso miligramo
Juan José Arreola
El guardagujas (Spanish Edition)
Juan José Arreola · 2009
Product Description Beautifully illustrated and provocative, the author’s most famous short story is a puzzling tale about a man who wishes to take a train to a certain location but upon arrival at the station is told by the switchman that his chances of ever seeing a train—let alone of ever arriving at his intended destination—are very slim. The switchman tells how in some places the train tracks are nothing more than chalk lines and how elsewhere no bridge exists so that passengers must take the train apart and carry the pieces to be reassembled down the line. The passenger eventually becomes so confused that he forgets where he intended to go, at which point the switchman and his toy lantern disappear into the distance. Whether it is interpreted as an allegory of the pitfalls of the Mexican train system or as an existential horror story of life's absurdities and human limitation, readers will enjoy this classic tale of Mexican magical realism. Bellamente illustrado y provocador, el cuento más famoso del autor es una historia desconcernante sobre un hombre que desea tomar al tren a un cierto emplazamiento pero cuando llega a la estación el jefe le dice que la posibilidad de ver un tren—mucho menos llegar a su lugar de destino—es muy improbable. El jefe le dice que en algunos lugares las vías son nada más de líneas de tiza y en otros ningun puente existe, así que los pasajeros tienen que desmontar el tren y colgar las piezas para reconstruirlas más adelante. El pasajero al final se confusa tanto que se olvida dónde quiere ir, a cual tiempo el jefe y su linterna de juguete desaparece en la distancia. Ya que sea interpretado como una alegoría de las trampas de sistema de trenes mexicano o como una historia de horror existencial de las irracionalidades de la vida y las limitaciones humanas, los lectores disfrutarán este cuento clásico del realismo mágico mexicano. About the Author Juan José Arreola was a well-known experimental short story writer and the author of one novel, La feria. Jill Hartley is a photographer and the award-winning author of several books, including Rayas flechas and Rojo + verde.
El invencible verano de Liliana
Cristina Rivera Garza · 2021
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo · 1994
<p>A masterpiece of the surreal, this stunning novel from Mexico depicts a man's strange quest for his heritage. Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Páaacute;ramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows-a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Páramo family, its barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits sharing the secrets of the past.</p><p>First published to both critical and popular acclaim in 1955, Pedro Páramo represented a distinct break with earlier, largely "realist" novels from Latin America. Rulfo's entrancing mixture of vivid sensory images, violent passions, and inexplicable sorcery--a style that has come to be known as 'magical realism"--has exerted a profound influence on subsequent Latin American writers, from Jos' Donoso and Carlos Fuentes to Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Márquez.</p>
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo · 2020
Las batallas en el desierto
José Emilio Pacheco · 2025
Actos Humanos / Human Acts
Han Kang · 2025
