“150 años de ecología en España: ciencia para una tierra frágil” “El recorrido propone varios ámbitos temáticos, cada uno de ellos compuesto de uno o varios módulos autocontenidos. “Las leyes de la espesura” recuerda nuestra vieja preocupación nacional por los bosques. “Islas de agua en un mar de tierra” rescata la labor de investigadores pioneros
“Noir” by Robert Coover “With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of America’s pioneering postmodernists, has taken the classic genre of the noir detective story and turned it inside-out. Here, Coover is at the top of his form, and Noir is a true page-turner—wry, absurd, and desolate.” Extraído de Overlook Press. Ver además: http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero12/cooveres.html http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Robert/Coover/reinventar/fabula/misma/elpepicul/19780816elpepicul_5/Tes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coover
“The book of getting even: a novel” by Benjamin Taylor “Son of a rabbi, budding astronomer Gabriel Geismar is on his way from youth to manhood in the 1970s when he falls in love with the esteemed and beguiling Hundert family, different in every way from his own. Over the course of a decade-long drama
“Metaficción española en la postmodernidad” por Antonio Sobejano-Morán “Metaficcion española en la postmodernidad se propone estudiar algunos de los escritores mas representativos de la metaficción postmoderna española. El texto consta de una introducción y de 8 capítulos. La introducción tiene un doble propósito, por un lado pretende compendiar algunos de los temas candentes de la
“Agape agape and other writings” by William Gaddis “William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a
“Letter to my daughter” by Maya Angelou “Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here
“Let the great world spin” by Colum McCann “As the narrator of Colum McCann’s new novel sees it, Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 triggered a quietude generally unknown to New Yorkers. “Those who saw him hushed,” McCann writes. “It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”
“Ask the dust” by John Fante “Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until,
“Quicksand and Passing” by Nella Larsen “Quicksand, Larsen’s first novel, is generally considered the better of the two. The work is a superb psychological study of a complicated and appealing woman, Helga Crane, who, like Larsen herself, is the product of a liaison between a black man and a white woman. In one sense, Quicksand
“No one belongs here more than you” by Miranda July “Filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the audio short story in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure
