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“Breath of Heaven: Complete Stories” by Carson McCullers “Carson McCullers conveyed with unsurpassed mastery the grandeur and tragedy of the human soul. His work has seduced generations of readers, while critics elevated it to the pedestal of the classics of the XNUMXth century. The breath of heaven comprises the totality of its
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“Oracle night” by Paul Auster “Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank
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“A word from you” by Elvira Lindo “Rosario and Milagros are street sweepers and have known each other since they were little. As vulnerable in appearance as firm despite her contradictions, Rosario recounts the years spent with that force of nature that is Milagros; years of setbacks, illusion, fear and realities that have shaped the fear
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“Of mice and men” by John Steinbeck “Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But
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“Words: articles and essays” by Mariano José de Larra “Words contains a selection of the best articles and essays on Figaro. It is the title of one of them, bitter and decisive from the point of view of ideological evolution and style.” Extracted from the back cover. See also: http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2904585 http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Jos%C3%A9_de_Larra Titles
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“Lord of the flies” by William Golding “Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It is about a group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.” Extracted from Wikipedia. See also: http://www.bookrags.com/notes/lof/ http://nobelprize.org/educational/literature/golding/ http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=1767 The titles selected are a
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“Girl in hyacinth blue” by Susan Vreeland “Tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of those whose lives it illuminates, and darkens. From a proud father regretting his lost love to a compromised French noblewoman, from a hung girl to Vermeer's own gifted daughter, Susan Vreeland's beautiful and luminous
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“Memories of a Star” written and directed by Woody Allen “A sharp and satirical reflection on the high price of fame. Woody Allen's Memories of a Star is a "witty and funny" narrative about a disillusioned filmmaker who has practically run out of ideas. Extracted from the back cover. See also: http://www.fox.es/dvd/recuerdos_de_una_estrella-11561/11561/
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“All stories” by Horacio Quiroga “More than placing him in a school or acknowledging his debts, perhaps it is important to see what original thing Quiroga brought to our literature. The most obvious is, for now, the one that is enough for us: he was, for Latin America, the inventor of the story. Quiroga did before anyone else, among us, what Poe
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“Lovers of the Polar Circle” directed by Julio Medem “A passionate and secret love story, told by each of its protagonists, Ana and Otto, from the time they are eight years old until they are twenty-five. It all begins in 1980, when leaving a school, when two children start running for different reasons. from that