Diario de Lupita

La literatura es una clase de terapia. O la terapia es un tipo de literatura. A través de estos dos conceptos, Elisa, la protagonista de esta historia, tratará de superar sus miedos, que no son otros que los de la cruel y extraña vida moderna. Esta novela, que confirma a Elvira Navarro como una de las voces más singulares de su generación, es quizá una de las pocas de la literatura española reciente que indaga en la patología mental sin desligarla del contexto social en el que se produce. Elisa corrige libros para un gran grupo editorial que retrasa los pagos durante meses. La...

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...

El Satiricón, cuya autoría no está del todo clara, se considera una de las primeras novelas de la literatura mundial, una obra totalmente nueva y original para la época en la que se reconocen rasgos de diferentes géneros literarios sin que ninguno de ellos destaque especialmente. El libro narra las peripecias de dos jóvenes, Encolpio y Ascilto, y del joven amante del primero, el adolescente Gitón, durante la etapa inicial del Imperio romano (antes del final del siglo I d.C.). Encolpio ha sido castigado por el dios Príapo causándole impotencia sexual, una situación que aprovecha...

I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.' Thus begins the most autobiographical novel by Theodor Kallifatides and one of the most appreciated by its hundreds of thousands of readers. A week before Kallifatides fled the town, a group of fascists with guns in their hands had forced all the people to gather in the cemetery. There they stood, ...