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Among the various avatars that the legendary aura of Homer and his work have known throughout the history of English letters, perhaps the two most astonishing are Joyce's Ulysses and Walcott's Omeros. As in the Iliad ("Omeros" is Homer's name "in the ancient language of the islands"), invoked by a Greek girl, Antigone, exiled in America), the story begins with the rivalry for the love of a woman. She is not a princess but a black Antillean maid, and those who fight for her are not kings but fishermen, but Helena's face is one of those in which the gods "consecrate all the beauty of a race." She loves Achilles but leaves him for Hector, and one day when the town is preparing for a party, the spurned lover sets sail from Santa Lucía and in an initiatory dream and a journey through centuries, is returned to the land of his ancestors, on the west coast of Africa. And while Achilles goes after his roots, another key character in the play, Dennis Plunkett, the white man, the colonizer, the eternal marginal in a town he loves, also completes his personal odyssey: after succumbing to the charm of Helena (once the island was named after the girl), he becomes, out of love for her, an expert on the history of the place, as well as its battles. The narrator, Homer's sorcerer's apprentice, Walcott himself, was born there but lives in Boston, has traveled the world and returns to visit his widowed mother, and he too is carried along by the currents and countercurrents that unite and They separate the characters of the poem, and he is also fascinated by Helena.

Algeria, 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young thirty-year-old communist worker, decides to show his support for the FNL's independence cause against France by planting a bomb. Iveton's peculiarity is that he is a pied noir, that is, a white Frenchman born in Algeria. The bomb is defused before it explodes and the terrorist trainee ends up arrested. He is interrogated and tortured and, despite there being no victims, he ends up sentenced to death. His lawyers ask for clemency from the highest authorities, among others from the Minister of Justice at the time, the future president François Mitterrand. But forgiveness does not come and Iveton will become the only pied noir executed by the French government during the long Algerian war. Was he a hero or a terrorist? An idealist or a criminal? A champion of Freedom against colonialism or a traitor to his country?

Human beings think they know what they are capable of. They believe that they could not escape from the police, that they would never harm a child. I couldn't kill my parents, whatever they do, they gave me life. Or I would never go as far as rape. I wouldn't be able to accelerate behind the wheel on a bridge with my children in the car and fall into the void. But we said all that before. We are not capable, it is true, crime is unthinkable to us, until we act. Losing the trial tells the story of a robbery, an appropriation, an arson. This work is the journey of a kidnapping where life is seen as the preparation of an escape. As Harwicz says, you write a novel when you disagree with the meaning of the words, when stopping the lying is impossible.

Juan Villoro is recognized as one of the great current Latin American writers. Journalist, novelist, short story writer, essayist and chronicler, he collected for the first time his literary essays in Personal Effects (Mazatlán Prize 2001), which was followed by That's What It's About (2004), titles that we bring together today in this volume. As he also did in the later The Utility of Desire (2017), Villoro here converts his readings into stories of intelligence. Both works show a narrator immersed in the adventure of reading. The anecdotes follow one another as in a novel and the comments arise with the wit of a happy gathering. An exceptional gallery of characters pass through these pages: Goethe trapped in the geometry of love, Cervantes, founder of the road novel, Rousseau, who unites his destiny to the risky notion of author, and Lowry in the intoxicated paradise of Cuernavaca. We also find testimony of elective affinities: a reconstruction of Burroughs' turbulent stay in Mexico, the investigation of Bernhard's posthumous exile, the illustrated garden of Monterroso, the most heterodox side of Fuentes, Pitol's customs-free journey, and Rossi's distracted intelligence. Along with these - and others - tributes and portraits, there is space for the chronicler Villoro and for the one who explores the rites of passage of literary translation and the dialogue between the literatures of America and Europe.

Shurik Korn is a modern Casanova in the guise of a boy from a good Moscow family. Fatherless from the cradle, his education is carried out by his energetic grandmother - the French teacher Yelizaveta lvánovna - and his weak mother, Vera Aleksándrovna, a failed actress whose fragility of soul and propensity to exalt herself place her in the background in the framework of that family triangle. Grandmother and mother instill in Shurik a sense of selflessness and love of neighbor, which in Shurik will result in a strange deviation: "In him, compassion and desire converge at the same point." Since he was young, Shurik has been attracted to lonely and helpless women, whom he feels sorry for, and this drives him to engage in frenetic sexual activity to offer them consolation... This is the story of Shurik Korn but also that of a family saga - there is talk of four generations of a Russian family, from the beginning to the end of the 20th century-, and especially that of the plethora of lovers who swarm around Shurik, women of different ages and social backgrounds. Matilda, the mature sculptress who lives with her family feline and debuts him in his Samaritan mission as a lover. Alia, the applied student from Kazakhstan corroded by complexes and shortcomings. Lena, whom he marries only to prevent the child he is expecting from a Cuban dissident from being illegitimate. Valeria, his boss at the library, a beautiful, jovial and energetic woman despite her handicap in her legs. Svetlana, the unbalanced young woman who works embroidering flowers for a cooperative of funeral wreaths. Zhanna, the dwarf who is part of a circus company, etc. Some of his relationships end in a mixture of love and friendship for life, others in tragedy - the most desperate of his lovers commits suicide. And above all his lovers Lilia stands out, his first and only love, the only one he did not comfort because she emigrated to Israel too soon. When they meet again after years, she will be surprised at his lack of character and insipidity.

In this book, which is presented as a serialized novel, the great Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya offers us subtle variations on the feminine lie. Well, according to our author, women's lies would be clearly distinguished from men's lies, and would almost always be devoid of purpose. Zhenia, the main character, is thus confronted with all kinds of inventions or fantasies. Like the story of Irene, who, while on vacation in the Crimea, receives the news of the death of her children, which moves Zhenya to tears. Little Nadia invents an older brother, Lialia a relationship with a famous painter and Ana pretends to be a poet... Each new chapter of this novel illustrates in its own way the breadth of Lyudmila Ulitskaya's talent, the precision of her sense of observation, the originality of her writing and, above all, a great tenderness towards her characters and, through them, towards the human being and his weaknesses.

Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez's new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.

Milena Busquets writes about love, books, children, beauty and elegance in this dress rehearsal of life. One of her central texts, "Ten Years Less Three Days," is a continuation of her novel This Too Shall Pass, in which she delves into mourning the death of her mother and is also a brilliant reflection on writing.

An invitation to build a habitable world beyond the walls of our house. Literature committed to the present: an accurate view that, from the intimate, illuminates the social. In first person, he reflects on the growing stratification of life in the cities of Latin America, and on how the middle classes turn their backs on the common, the public, in an attempt to avoid poverty, dirt, imperfection, purity, and chaos.

The right to be oneself has reached the zenith of its social projection: we live in the phase of the historical consummation of the culture of authenticity.

What to do in the face of a global political crisis like the one we are experiencing? Expansive democracy reviews the foundations of current democracy to propose a new, renewed and global paradigm that distances us from political disaster. Against cynicism in politics, and against a deficient and hollow democratic culture, Sartorius is committed to a "fight for an inclusive, democratic and sustainable globalization."

What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) for Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. What was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon's best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.

An essay on job insecurity. Between the chronicle and the essay, a chilling x-ray of the labor dynamics in the tourism sector, just when the climate crisis is going to change the map of tourist destinations worldwide from top to bottom.

For Recalcati, Jesus's reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, then in solitude, and where agony and doubt mingle with potential rebirth and revitalization. As the Gospels recount, after the Last Supper, Jesus retreated to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him, betraying and abandoning him with a kiss. Jesus is forsaken by his friends and, it seems to him in this moment, by his father, his God. His sin, in Recalcati's view, is like Prometheus to have drawn Divine closer to man. The Night in Gethsemane is a revelatory, moving, and inspiring meditation by one of Italy's most important thinkers.

In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, infamous dictator, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight. From his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanaticism, and revolution.

The culmination of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga. Second part of the saga... After the appearance in this collection of The Galactic Hitchhikers, which brings together the initial trilogy, this volume adds the other two novels - "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless" -, which expand the subject to nothing less than a "trilogy in five parts." Follow here the adventures of Arthur Dent and his companions on adventures, misadventures and interplanetary trips. And important questions continue to be raised for the future of humanity: Why have all the dolphins disappeared from our planet? Was Elvis Presley kidnapped by aliens? How do you get a robot to be perpetually on the verge of orgasm?

Una novela disparatada e inquietante sobre la familia, éMxico y el empñeo de escabullirse de la realidad. El protagonista de esta novela regresa a su pueblo en éMxico despéus de largos ñaos viviendo en el extranjero, donde ha formado una familia y lleva una vida apacible. Vuelve a la casa de sus padres para ayudar a sus hermanos a cuidar de ellos, ya mayores y con achaques. Se supone que seár un paérntesis breve y luego retomaár la rutina. Sin embargo, una noche queda con un amigo de la infancia y la realidad se transforma en una sucesóin de sobresaltos, en la cuenta que el hijo pórdigo tendár que pagar por haberse marchado y no entender ócmo ha cambiado éMxico durante su ausencia. Entretanto, ronda la foto de una bala y todo el mundo parece empñeado en ofrecerle pastillas de dudosa procedencia: Åseárn melatonina, tranquilizantes, anfetaminas, veneno...? Esta es una novela sobre el proceso de maduracóin de un hijo al que su madre acusa de salir huyendo para no enfrentar la realidad... hasta que no hay escapatoria. Nos habla de los cuidados de la familia, del dinero, la amistad, la humillacóin y la descomposicóin social de un pueblo que soíla ser un lugar muy paícfico.

This is a true story, full of edges and shadows, about the human condition. The protagonist is Silvia Labayru, an Argentine woman kidnapped in 1976, during the military dictatorship in her country, due to her membership in the Montoneros organization. She was nineteen years old and pregnant, and she was taken to the Navy Mechanics School, where a clandestine concentration center operated. She was tortured, forced to do slave labor, and repeatedly raped by an officer. Her daughter was born there and had to be given to her grandparents. Three years ago, she denounced sexual abuse by her repressors in the first trial of that type. But her story is much more complex than that of other detainees at that time. Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero began interviewing her in 2021. Over almost two years, she also spoke with her friends, her children, and her companions in captivity and militancy. The result is the portrait of a woman with a labyrinthine story in which love, sex, violence, humor, children, parents, infidelity, politics, friends, moving, and domestic animals come together.

Consent has become a key concept in sexual relationships. At first glance, it seems clear. But is it really like that? This text reflects on the nuances, fissures and paradoxes that accompany it. Can the desire be verbalized with absolute clarity, without any ambiguity? The author explores the path traveled between "no means no" and "only yes means yes" from philosophical, historical and political perspectives and, contrary to the dominant discourse, defends not leaving aside the first for the benefit of the second.

What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts, just as we do our fingers and toes? Why do we dream at night, and what does that have to do with the rotation of the earth? The answers to these questions are right behind our eyes. The greatest technology we have ever discovered on our planet is the three-pound organ carried in the vault of the skull. The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric, living fabric. In Livewired, you will surf the leading edge of neuroscience atop the anecdotes and metaphors that have made David Eagleman one of the best scientific translators of our generation. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new discoveries from Eagleman's own laboratory, from synesthesia to dreaming to wearable neurotech devices that revolutionize how we think about the senses.

A novel about the rage and restlessness of youth and about literature as the engine of the world. Amélie Nothomb's twenty-ninth novel is a kind of praise for reading, but nothing trivial, nothing predictable and, above all, nothing innocent.

Oxford, May 1, 1956. In the solemnity of the Bodleian Library, the university faculty has met to decide whether to grant an honoris causa to former United States President Harry S. Truman. One of the people present, the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, vehemently opposes it, because she believes that this recognition should not be granted to someone who, by ordering the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was guilty of the death of thousands of innocent people. At a time when philosophy had turned towards the analytical and scientific methods of logical positivism, she and her Oxford colleagues and friends Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch and Mary Midgley, under the impact of the Second World War, considered that philosophy should face again the big ethical questions: what is morally right? What moral principles should we follow? Is there an objective criterion of morality? This book reconstructs the vital and intellectual adventures of these four women who left their mark on philosophy, at a time when this discipline was dominated by men.

The arrival of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists wrote the Luminous Republic, a chronicle about how the city was forced to reformulate its ideas of order and violence.

The Aeneid narrates the adventures of Aeneas, the prince of the Dardani, the son of Anchises and the goddess Venus. When Troy, his hometown, bursts into flames he is forced to flee and embark on a journey that will eventually take him to Hesperia, ancient Italy. But until reaching this point, seven long years pass full of adventures: before Polidoro, against the terrible harpies, with Dido, through Avernus with the Sibyl... and always at the mercy of the gods. This volume offers an adaptation of Virgil's work that makes it accessible to the youngest, but also to all those who want to have fun with the great epic of Aeneas.

Gerda and Kai are neighbors and go everywhere together. In summer they have fun playing in the garden, but in winter they sit by the fire to listen to the stories the boy's grandmother tells. Her favorite is that of the Snow Queen, an evil woman, who sows everything with snow and frost wherever she goes. One day, in the middle of one of those stories, a gust of wind opens the window and a splinter of ice hits Kai. Quickly her body is frozen and the evil Queen comes into being to take them to her world. But Gerda has no intention of abandoning her friend.

The novel by Giovanni Falcone. Falcone died in 1992 - along with his wife and three bodyguards - when his car was blown up on the highway that leads to Palermo from the airport. Saviano is still alive - writing and denouncing - but threatened, under protection and with bodyguards.

"A triptych from the 20th century. Each of the three parts of This book stars a real character."--