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]]> 76548 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present.

Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.]]> 76 Louise Glück 0374530742 Alex 0 to-read 4.21 2006
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]]> 41860708 Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.

Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man—an American sailor, a gaijin—and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child, she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.

America, present day. Tori Kovač, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation—one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter, Tori’s journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption.

In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.]]> 352 Ana Johns 0778308146 Alex 0 to-read 4.14 2019
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]]> 34352 Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a disastrous marriage that leaves them both ruined. Yet this tragic affair also becomes the inspiration for Kuhn's opera, the most important success of his artistic life.]]> 256 Hermann Hesse 0312424639 Alex 4 european-writers 3.90 1910
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average rating: 3.90
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As a musician, as a person who's been in love and felt how lost love feels, this book helped me in a very necessary moment. For love is not passion, nor is it an endearment. It's more like a state of meditation, or perhaps the extasis of a symphony.
]]> 14653803 165 Steven Pressfield 1936891026 Alex 0 to-read, for-writers 4.14 2002
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]]> 71468 El último encuentro y Divorcio en Buda, la época más fértil y lúcida de la obra del gran escritor húngaro. Compuesta de tres monólogos, correspondientes a los tres personajes que conforman la novela, esta edición de La mujer justa reúne por primera vez en castellano las dos primeras partes, publicadas en 1941 en Hungría, y la tercera, escrita durante el exilio italiano de Márai y añadida a la versión alemana de 1949.

Una tarde, en una elegante cafetería de Budapest, una mujer relata a su amiga cómo un día, a raíz de un banal incidente, descubrió que su marido estaba entregado en cuerpo y alma a un amor secreto que lo consumía, y luego su vano intento por reconquistarlo. En la misma ciudad, una noche, el hombre que fue su marido confiesa a un amigo cómo dejó a su esposa por la mujer que deseaba desde años atrás, para después de casarse con ella perderla para siempre. Al alba, en una pequeña pensión romana, una mujer cuenta a su amante cómo ella, de origen humilde, se había casado con un hombre rico, pero el matrimonio había sucumbido al resentimiento y la venganza. Cual marionetas sin derecho a ejercer su voluntad, Marika, Péter y Judit narran su fallida relación con el crudo realismo de quien considera la felicidad un estado elusivo e inalcanzable.]]> 416 Sándor Márai 847888937X Alex 0 european-writers 4.04 1941
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> 14294
Esta primera novela de un estudiante japonés de veinticuatro años fue galardonada con el prestigioso premio Akutagawa. En seis meses se vendieron un millón y medio de ejemplares y el libro desencadenó pasiones. La crítica japonesa habló de "sensibilidad revolucionaria", de "mirada como el zoom de una cámara", de "filtro de lucidez, a través del cual la violencia y el erotismo más crudo adquieren una extraña pureza". Aunque también se acusó a Murakami de cultivar sistemáticamente la pornografía y la brutalidad. En los Estados Unidos, la revista Newsweek la recomendó como "una mezcla de "La naranja mecánica", de Burgess, y "El extranjero", de Camus".]]> 144 Ryū Murakami Alex 0 to-read 3.21 1976
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]]> 38937969
En esta suerte de Espectros de Marx para el siglo XXI, Mark Fisher se enfrenta a las ruinas de aquel momento en que la cultura popular –en especial la música�� todavía tenía la capacidad de producir formas innovadoras y soñar con modos de vida radicalmente alternativos. En la experiencia colectiva de las raves, el rechazo al trabajo de los mods, el modernismo militante de los postpunks resuena aún la prometeica ambición de la clase trabajadora de producir un mundo que exceda existencial y estéticamente a la cultura burguesa. Pero no se trata de aferrarse de manera nostálgica a ese pasado para refugiarnos del presente: no abandonar los fantasmas implica no ajustarse a lo que las condiciones actuales llaman “realidad��.

Estos penetrantes ejercicios de análisis cultural, que comprenden no solo música sino también la obra de directores como Kubrick, Cronenberg o Christopher Nolan, son para Fisher rituales para exorcizar el espectro que lo persiguió toda su vida: la depresión. Porque si identificamos estructuras sociales allí donde el neoliberalismo solo ve elecciones y responsabilidades personales, seremos capaces de convertir el padecimiento individual en ira politizada.]]> 288 Mark Fisher 9871622619 Alex 0 to-read 4.21 2014
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]]> 50144 Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was once his father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale that recalls early Marguerite Duras. Kitchen and its companion story, "Moonlight Shadow," are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]> 160 Banana Yoshimoto 0802142443 Alex 2
The first two stories (the Kitchen story) is a romantic narration that leads you to a world of alienation and (perhaps) solitude. But definitely the best is the short tale that comes at the end of Kitchen, and it is Moonlight Shadow.

Moonlight Shadow, as its name, is mysterious, melancholic, sad and refreshing. It's a tragical love story of a young woman and his recently-departed boyfriend. She, as every young girl passing through this kind of struggling, is tearing apart one part of her soul, and she (perhaps as his beloved) can't find the peace. There's where a mysterious girl enters in the story giving her a chance for saying good-bye.

The atmosphere of this short story is fascinating. The way the writer makes you feel the inner feelings of the protagonist in such a subtle and soft manner is admirable.

Many people says she's a pop writer. I just think that she'd portrayed so well her environment (just as Murakami), and in such a delicate way, that you don't feel the elaborated narrative she uses in her stories.

This book is a masterpiece of melancholy and atmosphere. Is, as much as I regard, the best freshest tale of the past century.]]> 3.91 1988
author: Banana Yoshimoto
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One of my favorites books of all time. Banana Yoshimoto (for many the popier side of the Japanese Literature) delivers a melancholic and magical portrait of the modern Japan, with it's mix of ancestral traditions and western new-cultural-model.

The first two stories (the Kitchen story) is a romantic narration that leads you to a world of alienation and (perhaps) solitude. But definitely the best is the short tale that comes at the end of Kitchen, and it is Moonlight Shadow.

Moonlight Shadow, as its name, is mysterious, melancholic, sad and refreshing. It's a tragical love story of a young woman and his recently-departed boyfriend. She, as every young girl passing through this kind of struggling, is tearing apart one part of her soul, and she (perhaps as his beloved) can't find the peace. There's where a mysterious girl enters in the story giving her a chance for saying good-bye.

The atmosphere of this short story is fascinating. The way the writer makes you feel the inner feelings of the protagonist in such a subtle and soft manner is admirable.

Many people says she's a pop writer. I just think that she'd portrayed so well her environment (just as Murakami), and in such a delicate way, that you don't feel the elaborated narrative she uses in her stories.

This book is a masterpiece of melancholy and atmosphere. Is, as much as I regard, the best freshest tale of the past century.
]]> 845972
Estafas, trata de mujeres, entierros clandestinos y asesinatos conforman el siniestro reino que las dos mujeres, Serafina y Arcángela, han construido a su alrededor.

Las muertas es la extraordinaria ficción de un caso real, el de las Poquianchis, y una muestra inigualable de la capacidad de Jorge Ibargüengoitia para retratar con humor la vida por el lado que más duele.]]> 192 Jorge Ibargüengoitia 8471785196 Alex 3 4.22 1977
author: Jorge Ibargüengoitia
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average rating: 4.22
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rating: 3
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]]> 1660958
Estafas, trata de mujeres, entierros clandestinos y asesinatos conforman el siniestro reino que las dos mujeres, Serafina y Arcángela, han construido a su alrededor.

Las muertas es la extraordinaria ficción de un caso real, el de las Poquianchis, y una muestra inigualable de la capacidad de Jorge Ibargüengoitia para retratar con humor la vida por el lado que más duele.]]> 156 Jorge Ibargüengoitia 9682710154 Alex 3 4.05 1977
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]]> 9813
Originally published as two distinct volumes: 'Il visconte dimezzato' (1952) and 'Il cavaliere inesistente' (1959). Also published in a single volume with 'The baron in the trees' (Il barone rampante, 1957) as 'Our Ancestors' (I nostri antenati, 1960).]]> 254 Italo Calvino 0156659751 Alex 4 4.03 1959
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]]> 19274013 Los grotescos, los lazos familiares pertenecen, sin duda, a lo patético y brutal, la avaricia es solo uno de los siete pecados capitales que aquí se cumplen.]]> 371 Mauricio Bernal 9585787636 Alex 0 to-read 3.71 2013
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]]> 50156 Banana Yoshimoto 607421073X Alex 5 ����貹ñ�DZ�, favorites, reviews
Desde pequeño leía. Me encanta leer. Traté de leer (sin éxito) Don Quijote a los 8. Aún así traté de encontrar buen material de lectura y generalmente lo encontraba. Obras clásicoas, principalmente. Pero de repente apareció este loibro en un estante alejado y oculto de la susodicha biblioteca. Como un enuentro fatídico, llegó a mis manos para no irse jamás. Quizá estaba premeditado a encontrarme. O yo a encontrarlo.

Kitchen, señores, es una obra ligera. En extremo ligera. Una pluma resulta más pesada que éste libro de doscientas páginas. No trasciende por sus metáforas, o por sus técnicas post-modernistas. No, al contrario. Sobressale por su tibieza y ligereza.. Ligereza que a la larga se agradece en un mundo plagado de obras excelsas y pesadas.

Kitchen es la simplicidad llevada a su grado cúlmen. Historias románticas de jóvenes japoneses. Historias plagadas de pérdidas y melancolía. Historiaso que en manos de alguien mas hubiesen resultado fatídicas. Pero, ésta jóven, apenas estudiante de literatura con pseudónimo planatesco decidió tornar todo en algo mágico y melancólico.

Como una novela para adolescentes. Solo que cometió el error de hacerlo con una simpleza tan sublimes que a veces te balancea en el borde de las lágrimas.

Kitchen se divide en tres partes, las dos primeras son la historia que da el nombre al título: la historia de amor de dos jóvenes que se conocen en base a la pérdida de un ser querido y comienzan a vivir juntos en casa del chico, etc. etc. Sí, es algo fuera de lo común y es melancólica. Muy buenas historias. Pero... la tercera...

(suspira)

...la tercera me quitó el aliento como ninguna otra historia ha hecho. Hubo una etapa en que la leía una y otra vez. A tal grado me fanatizó Moonlight Shadow. La trama, como la narrativa, es muy simple. Una chica pierde a su novio en un accidente y no puede despedirse de él. Pero llega una mujer misteriosa y le muestra una manera de decirle adiós. Simple y normal, ¿no creen? Pues Yoshimoto lo ha logrado contar con tanta magia que ha hecho que durante toda mi adolescencia lo leyese diario.
Y si ésa no es una buena historia no sé a que rayos podría vestir con ése adjetivo.]]> 3.88 1988
author: Banana Yoshimoto
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average rating: 3.88
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rating: 5
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Éste libro representa muchas cosas para mí. En principio fué el iniciador de mi carrera delictiva. Yo, un púber de 11 años transcurridos, codicié éste libro a sobremanera y lo tomé de mi biblioteca escolar de la forma mas disimulada posible, con el fiel objetivo de venerarlo y hacerle un altar. A tal grado me fascinó.

Desde pequeño leía. Me encanta leer. Traté de leer (sin éxito) Don Quijote a los 8. Aún así traté de encontrar buen material de lectura y generalmente lo encontraba. Obras clásicoas, principalmente. Pero de repente apareció este loibro en un estante alejado y oculto de la susodicha biblioteca. Como un enuentro fatídico, llegó a mis manos para no irse jamás. Quizá estaba premeditado a encontrarme. O yo a encontrarlo.

Kitchen, señores, es una obra ligera. En extremo ligera. Una pluma resulta más pesada que éste libro de doscientas páginas. No trasciende por sus metáforas, o por sus técnicas post-modernistas. No, al contrario. Sobressale por su tibieza y ligereza.. Ligereza que a la larga se agradece en un mundo plagado de obras excelsas y pesadas.

Kitchen es la simplicidad llevada a su grado cúlmen. Historias románticas de jóvenes japoneses. Historias plagadas de pérdidas y melancolía. Historiaso que en manos de alguien mas hubiesen resultado fatídicas. Pero, ésta jóven, apenas estudiante de literatura con pseudónimo planatesco decidió tornar todo en algo mágico y melancólico.

Como una novela para adolescentes. Solo que cometió el error de hacerlo con una simpleza tan sublimes que a veces te balancea en el borde de las lágrimas.

Kitchen se divide en tres partes, las dos primeras son la historia que da el nombre al título: la historia de amor de dos jóvenes que se conocen en base a la pérdida de un ser querido y comienzan a vivir juntos en casa del chico, etc. etc. Sí, es algo fuera de lo común y es melancólica. Muy buenas historias. Pero... la tercera...

(suspira)

...la tercera me quitó el aliento como ninguna otra historia ha hecho. Hubo una etapa en que la leía una y otra vez. A tal grado me fanatizó Moonlight Shadow. La trama, como la narrativa, es muy simple. Una chica pierde a su novio en un accidente y no puede despedirse de él. Pero llega una mujer misteriosa y le muestra una manera de decirle adiós. Simple y normal, ¿no creen? Pues Yoshimoto lo ha logrado contar con tanta magia que ha hecho que durante toda mi adolescencia lo leyese diario.
Y si ésa no es una buena historia no sé a que rayos podría vestir con ése adjetivo.
]]> 23885 170 Gabriel García Márquez 0060751576 Alex 1 3.88 1961
author: Gabriel García Márquez
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]]> 38500 291 Charles Bukowski 0061177598 Alex 5 3.85 1978
author: Charles Bukowski
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> 50497
Charles Bukowski, born 8/16/20, Andernach, Germany. Brought to America at the age of two. Eighteen or 20 books of prose and poetry. Bukowski, after publishing prose in Story and Portfolio stopped writing for ten years. He arrived in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital, hemorrhaging as a climax of a ten-year drinking bout. Some say he didn't die. After leaving the hospital he got a tyewriter and began writing again - this time, poetry. He later returned to prose and gained some fame with his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, which he wrote mainly for the paper, Open City. After 14 years in the Post Office he resigned at age 50, he says, to keep from going insane. He now claims to be unemployable and eats typewriter ribbons. Once married, once divorced, many times shacked, he has a seven-year-old daughter.

These dirty and immortal stories appeared mainly in Underground newspapers, with Open City and Nola Express leading in the publication of them. Others have appeared in Evergreen Review, Knight, Pix, Berkeley Barb, Adam, and Adam Reader.

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground - people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski is a legend in his time...a madman, a recluse, a lover...tender, vicious...never the same...these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life...horrible and holy...you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.]]> 478 Charles Bukowski 0872860612 Alex 0 3.92 1972
author: Charles Bukowski
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]]> 497199
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.]]> 205 Charles Bukowski 0876852630 Alex 4 3.95 1975
author: Charles Bukowski
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]]> 63032 1128 Roberto Bolaño 843396867X Alex 0 to-read, ����貹ñ�DZ� 4.22 2004
author: Roberto Bolaño
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> 230515 183 Ágota Kristóf 2020145669 Alex 4 4.22 1991
author: Ágota Kristóf
name: Alex
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1991
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]]> 11529868
Considering himself "a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world," Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress "so pure, she didn't know what starving people looked like."

Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master's Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. A towering literary achievement, The Orphan Master's Son ushers Adam Johnson into the small group of today's greatest writers.

An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.]]> 443 Adam Johnson 0812992792 Alex 5 favorites
You see, this story gives us a fresh perspective of the modern world (in the eye of a contemporary society). Given that, how can we ignore the pain and the suffering of our comerades, our global citizens, our human brothers the North Koreans?

History's in the writing this very moment. The ones who control our society, our resources, our money, they have a slice of responsability on these global situations. If we decide to embrace globalization, we should start giving every human being the same rights and opportunities that we were given. If not, then we're nothing but a horde of hypocrites.

After reading this book all you can yearn for is the presence and warmth of Sun Moon.]]> 4.05 2012
author: Adam Johnson
name: Alex
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2012
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I was looking for a modern classics the day I started reading this book, made my research on the web and found this title. What a great find! I'd been worried about NK for a very long time, it means a lot to me, it is the dark side of the post-modern world, a demon we sort of communaly decided to ignore (just like our worst nightmares). But it's there and it's real. More real even than this book story. It was a pleasant reading, it was an enlightning one but, when all the real stories surface into common knowdlege, I mean, when these lives become part of what we call "globalization", what's gonna happen then?

You see, this story gives us a fresh perspective of the modern world (in the eye of a contemporary society). Given that, how can we ignore the pain and the suffering of our comerades, our global citizens, our human brothers the North Koreans?

History's in the writing this very moment. The ones who control our society, our resources, our money, they have a slice of responsability on these global situations. If we decide to embrace globalization, we should start giving every human being the same rights and opportunities that we were given. If not, then we're nothing but a horde of hypocrites.

After reading this book all you can yearn for is the presence and warmth of Sun Moon.
]]> 2757202 El último encuentro, esta novela es otro claro exponente de la especial sensibilidad y talento del gran autor húngaro para abordar las preocupaciones primordiales del ser humano, aquellas que trascienden los momentos históricos y las fronteras geográficas. La pasión, el dolor, la enfermedad, el éxtasis del arte y el misterio de la muerte son algunos de esos temas intemporales que Sándor Márai trata magistralmente en estas páginas, la última obra que publicó en su país antes de exiliarse.
En la cumbre de su fama como pianista, Z. se dirige en tren a Florencia invitado por el gobierno italiano para dar un concierto. Poco antes de cruzar la frontera, se siente indispuesto y, tras su actuación, debe ser ingresado en un hospital florentino aquejado de una rara enfermedad vírica. Allí, mientras se debate entre la vida y la muerte, tendrá lugar un diálogo intenso y decisivo con el médico que lo atiende, una indagación sin concesiones sobre el precario equilibrio entre el poder curativo de la ciencia y el espíritu de lucha del paciente. Una noche, presa del delirio causado por la morfina, Z. escucha una voz femenina que le susurra: «no quiero que mueras». Las palabras actúan como un revulsivo que lo llevará a replantearse aspectos fundamentales de su vida.
Pocas veces una novela ha tratado con tanta elegancia y lucidez la profunda relación entre médico y enfermo. Ante el ineludible encuentro con el dolor y la enfermedad, a Z. sólo le queda bucear en los límites de su ser y de sus fantasmas personales.]]> 256 Sándor Márai 8498380898 Alex 4 ����貹ñ�DZ� 3.80 1946
author: Sándor Márai
name: Alex
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1946
rating: 4
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La hermana es la mujer que deseamos, buscamos, añoramos pero que no estará allí para nosotros. Es la muerte, que en ����貹ñ�DZ� se transforma mágicamente en mu(j)er-te. Aprisionando la fuente de la vida, la muerte misma se nos presenta como remanso, un momento orgásmico. La hermana, la mujer, la vida, la muerte. Este libro invita a una introspección y un acercamiento simbólico con lo femenino desde una narrativa siempre viva como la de Marai.
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In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 723 Ovid 014044789X Alex 0 4.08 8
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]]> 110457
The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various surreal people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as not so much a thing as a way things happen, Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.]]> 160 André Breton 0802150268 Alex 4 ����貹ñ�DZ� 3.57 1928
author: André Breton
name: Alex
average rating: 3.57
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rating: 4
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Necesito leerlo en francés (por lo tanto tendré que tomar unas clases). Es un libro embriagador, desconcertante, como todo romance que no tiene rumbo te lleva a un tibio lugar sin sitio
]]> 701497 292 Dallas Smith 188132575X Alex 0 4.60 2004
author: Dallas Smith
name: Alex
average rating: 4.60
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]]> 13531064 704 Tony Fletcher 0307715957 Alex 4 4.05 2012
author: Tony Fletcher
name: Alex
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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The documented story of my favourite book. A great read whilst Morrissey's autobiography emerges.
]]> 10518
..". draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises many fascinating questions." --Language in Society

..". a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies." --Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

..". the most significant text on the subject published in the English language that I know of." --Arthur Asa Berger, Journal of Communication

Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs--communication and signification--and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.]]> 368 Umberto Eco 0253202175 Alex 3 ]]> 4.07 1975
author: Umberto Eco
name: Alex
average rating: 4.07
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rating: 3
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Semiótica. ¿Qué más puedo decir al respecto?

]]> 5757080 234 Edgar Allan Poe 9706665404 Alex 5 3.54 1838
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Alex
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1838
rating: 5
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]]> 1702700 Pierre Guiraud 0710080115 Alex 3 3.66 1955
author: Pierre Guiraud
name: Alex
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1955
rating: 3
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]]> 607046 208 Roberto Bolaño 8433967134 Alex 4 4.05 1997
author: Roberto Bolaño
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average rating: 4.05
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rating: 4
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]]> 63036 232 Roberto Bolaño 8433968084 Alex 4 3.91 2001
author: Roberto Bolaño
name: Alex
average rating: 3.91
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rating: 4
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]]> 10503
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory �� he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.

There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent that of his first love.

A fascinating, abundant novel �� wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart �� from the incomparable Eco.]]> 469 Umberto Eco 0156030438 Alex 0 3.39 2004
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name: Alex
average rating: 3.39
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]]> 141565 This Is Your Brain on Music unravels a host of mysteries that affect everything from pop culture to our understanding of human nature, including:
�� Are our musical preferences shaped in utero?
�� Is there a cutoff point for acquiring new tastes in music?
�� What do PET scans and MRIs reveal about the brain’s response to music?
�� Is musical pleasure different from other kinds of pleasure?

This Is Your Brain on Music explores cultures in which singing is considered an essential human function, patients who have a rare disorder that prevents them from making sense of music, and scientists studying why two people may not have the same definition of pitch. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.]]> 314 Daniel J. Levitin 0525949690 Alex 0 3.90 2006
author: Daniel J. Levitin
name: Alex
average rating: 3.90
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]]> 243705 283 John Fowles Alex 0 3.97 1963
author: John Fowles
name: Alex
average rating: 3.97
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]]> 712665
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world.

This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter. The book closes on that somber and poignant note.

Last Train to Memphis takes us deep inside Elvis' life, exploring his lifelong passion for music of every sort (from blues and gospel to Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza), his compelling affection for his family, and his intimate relationships with girlfriends, mentors, band members, professional associates, and friends. It shows us the loneliness, the trustfulness, the voracious appetite for experience, and above all the unshakable, almost mystical faith that Elvis had in himself and his music. Drawing frequently on Elvis' own words and on the recollections of those closest to him, the book offers an emotional, complex portrait of young Elvis Presley with a depth and dimension that for the first time allow his extraordinary accomplishments to ring true.

Peter Guralnick has given us a previously unseen world, a rich panoply of people and events that illuminate an achievement, a place, and a time as never revealed before. Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated.]]> 560 Peter Guralnick 0316332259 Alex 4 4.15 1994
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Elvis Presley started to grow slowly on me over the past year. Once I started reading this one I just couldn't stop. Probably one of the best musician's biography around.
]]> 164827 184 Vladimir Mayakovsky 8473396189 Alex 4
Mayakovsky no es un artista, es un artesano. Cual herrero moscovino, toma las palabras con sus rudas manos y las martillea hasta darles forma y función. Es una mezcla de escultor y herrero. Es tosco. Es sublimemente tosco.]]> 4.16 1967
author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
name: Alex
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1967
rating: 4
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Nótese que mi afecto hacia el soviet es meramente platónico. Ayer leí la obra Mayakovski (mal deletreado en éstaedición) y no hizo otra cosa mas que enervarme con rojo y amarillo.

Mayakovsky no es un artista, es un artesano. Cual herrero moscovino, toma las palabras con sus rudas manos y las martillea hasta darles forma y función. Es una mezcla de escultor y herrero. Es tosco. Es sublimemente tosco.
]]> 16631 Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, "Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others".]]> 256 Hermann Hesse 0140282580 Alex 4 4.15 1927
author: Hermann Hesse
name: Alex
average rating: 4.15
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rating: 4
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]]> 6217003 208 María Luisa Bombal 0061711845 Alex 0 to-read 3.88 1935
author: María Luisa Bombal
name: Alex
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1935
rating: 0
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]]> 11300
Con un fino sentido del humor, Murakami ha escrito el conmovedor relato de una educación sentimental, pero también de las pérdidas que implica toda maduración. Tokio Blues supuso el reconocimiento definitivo del autor en su país, donde se convirtió en un best seller.]]> 392 Haruki Murakami 8483103079 Alex 4 3.93 1987
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Alex
average rating: 3.93
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rating: 4
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]]> 1412530 210 Rosario Castellanos 9681648242 Alex 0 4.19 1973
author: Rosario Castellanos
name: Alex
average rating: 4.19
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]]> 2122
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...

“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”—The New York Times]]> 704 Ayn Rand Alex 0 3.87 1943
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]]> 662 This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?

Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor �� and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life �� from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy �� to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction �� to the philosopher who becomes a pirate �� to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph �� to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad �� to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.

This is a mystery story, not about the murder �� and rebirth �� of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.]]> 1168 Ayn Rand 0452011876 Alex 4 3.67 1957
author: Ayn Rand
name: Alex
average rating: 3.67
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rating: 4
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]]> 214670
With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote generally has been recognized as the first modern novel. The book has had enormous influence on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."]]> Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 9872127212 Alex 5 4.25 1615
author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
name: Alex
average rating: 4.25
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rating: 5
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]]> 78970
Within days, Adam's lover is brutally murdered and he's running for his life through the great cities of Europe, pursued not only by the KGB, but by the CIA and his own countrymen as well. Their common intent is to kill him before the truth comes out. While powerful men in smoke-filled rooms plot ever more ingenious means of destroying him, Adam finds himself betrayed and abandoned even by those he holds most dear.

When at last he comes to understand what he is in possession of, he's even more determined to protect it, for it's more than a matter of life and death-it's a matter of honor.]]> 368 Jeffrey Archer 0312933541 Alex 2 english 3.93 1986
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Alex
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1986
rating: 2
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]]> 758107 Joy Division: Piece By Piece encompasses his complete writings on the group, both contemporary and retrospective. In addition to collecting all of Morley’s classic works about the band, the book includes his eloquent Ian Curtis obituary and hindsight pieces on the group’s significance, framed by an extensive retrospective essay, as well as his reviews of the films 24 Hour Party People and Control. Morley, who emerged from Manchester at the same time as Joy Division, effortlessly evokes that city’s zeitgeist and psycho-geography to tell the story of this uniquely intense group.]]> 384 Paul Morley 0859654044 Alex 4 3.84 2007
author: Paul Morley
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]]> 11493 328 Milan Kundera 847223682X Alex 4 4.22 1984
author: Milan Kundera
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average rating: 4.22
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rating: 4
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]]> 6672402 0 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 6074570027 Alex 3 4.49 1943
author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
name: Alex
average rating: 4.49
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rating: 3
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]]> 65341
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient, and with the paradox of an endlessly changing universe that is in tune with unchanging harmonies. Poems such as “Earth�� and “In the Eyes of a Peacock�� present a picture of natural processes unaffected by human concerns, while others, as in “Recovery �� 14,�� convey the poet's bewilderment about his place in the world. And exuberant works such as “New Rain�� and “Grandfather's Holiday�� describe Tagore's sheer joy at the glories of nature or simply in watching a grandchild play.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 208 Rabindranath Tagore 0140449884 Alex 4 4.18 1985
author: Rabindranath Tagore
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> 51504 208 Charles Bukowski 0876850867 Alex 4 4.01 1971
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]]> 10692
Late one night in 1972, as a 16-year-old girl, she discovers a mysterious book and a sheaf of letters in her father's library—a discovery that will have dreadful and far-reaching consequences, and will send her on a journey of mind-boggling danger. While seeking clues to the secrets of her father's past and her mother's puzzling disappearance, she follows a trail from London to Istanbul to Budapest and beyond, and learns that the letters in her possession provide a link to one of the world's darkest and most intoxicating figures. Generation after generation, the legend of Dracula has enticed and eluded both historians and opportunists alike. Now a young girl undertakes the same search that ended in the death and defilement of so many others—in an attempt to save her father from an unspeakable fate.
(Fall 2005 Selection)]]> 704 Elizabeth Kostova 0751537284 Alex 1 3.78 2005
author: Elizabeth Kostova
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> 269322
The Raven . . . Annabel Lee . . . Ulalume . . . these are some of the spookiest, most macabre poems ever written, now collected in this chilling, affordable volume.

Dreams
The Lake
Sonnet �� To Science
[Alone]
Introduction
To Helen
Israfel
The Valley of Unrest
The City in the Sea
To One in Paradise
The Coliseum
The Haunted Palace
The Conqueror Worm
Dream-Land
Eulalie
The Raven
["Deep in Earth"]
To M.L.S___
Ulalume �� A Ballad
The Bells
To Helen [Whitman]
A Dream Within a Dream
For Annie
Eldorado
To My Mother
Annabel Lee]]> 73 Edgar Allan Poe 0439224063 Alex 5 4.32 1845
author: Edgar Allan Poe
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]]> 32559
The work includes a new introduction by Stephen Marlowe, author of "The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus" and "The Lighthouse at the End of the World."

Besides the five stories already mentioned, it also contains: "The Balloon-Hoax", "Ms. Found in a Bottle", "A Descent into a Maelstrom", "The Black Cat", "The Pit and the Pendulum", The Assignation", "Diddling", "The Man That Was Used Up", and the novel, "Narrative of A. Gordon Pym". These may vary with different editions.

The Signet Classic Edition of "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales" has over 250,000 copies in print!

Librarian's note: this is a collection by the author of short stories, and one novel, Entries for each of them on their own can be found elsewhere on ŷ������, including the specific entry for the story, "The Fall of the House of Usher".]]> 400 Edgar Allan Poe 0451526759 Alex 5 4.18 1960
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]]> 18423 The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.]]> 304 Ursula K. Le Guin Alex 0 to-read 4.11 1969
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]]> 992903 407 Jorge Luis Borges 9875662445 Alex 0 to-read 4.43 1940
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]]> 1852 The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.]]> 172 Jack London Alex 4 3.89 1903
author: Jack London
name: Alex
average rating: 3.89
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rating: 4
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]]> 3001042 256 Milan Kundera 8483104172 Alex 4 3.90 1972
author: Milan Kundera
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average rating: 3.90
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rating: 4
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]]> 533016 224 Naoki Urasawa 1591166411 Alex 5 4.47 1995
author: Naoki Urasawa
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average rating: 4.47
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rating: 5
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]]> 61438
La obra fue considerado en su día como obscena, sin embargo nignuno de los descalificativos que le dedicaron consigueron minimizar tamaña proeza, un verdadero banquete literario dónde James Joyce despliega en cada capítulo un torrente de técnicas narrativas que van desde un prodigioso uso del flujo de conciencia a la sátira o al texto científico. Una verdadera obra maestra que ha trascendido en la historia de la cultura y que cambió para siempre el rumbo de la narrativa de ficción, influenciando a multitud de escritores y conviertiéndose en una obra de referencia ineludible.]]> 674 James Joyce 8426411835 Alex 5 3.89 1922
author: James Joyce
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]]> 27776 La caída fue (tras El extranjero y La peste), la tercera y última novela de Camus, quien reflejó en ella la desesperación del hombre contemporáneo, condenado a vivir en un mundo dominado por el absurdo y forzado a descubrir, tras las ilusiones de la felicidad y la virtud, la dureza de una realidad hostil.

La historia transcurre en Ámsterdam. Ahí el lector recibe la invitación de un antiguo abogado francés para que tome asiento junto a él y escuche el relato de su vida, que transcurre en París, dónde asiste con al decepcionante desarrollo de una sociedad que termina por conducirle al aislamiento psicológico.]]> 128 Albert Camus 8420637017 Alex 4 4.02 1956
author: Albert Camus
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]]> 3987289 Book by Kafka, Franz 132 Franz Kafka 9505811322 Alex 5 3.74 1915
author: Franz Kafka
name: Alex
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]]> 1684082 0 Gorki Máximo 847291674X Alex 5 4.25 1835
author: Gorki Máximo
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]]> 2175 329 Gustave Flaubert 0192840398 Alex 5 3.70 1856
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average rating: 3.70
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]]> 58696 882 Charles Dickens Alex 3 4.02 1850
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average rating: 4.02
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rating: 3
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]]> 24861 193 Hermann Hesse Alex 4 4.18 1919
author: Hermann Hesse
name: Alex
average rating: 4.18
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rating: 4
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]]> 514167 Uno de los mejores relatos de Oscar Wilde, uno de los más importantes escritores de todos los tiempos, donde se combinan el terror, el humor, la aventura y la crítica social.]]> 94 Oscar Wilde 9509187712 Alex 3 3.22 1887
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average rating: 3.22
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rating: 3
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]]> 6678858 222 Oscar Wilde Alex 5 3.92 1890
author: Oscar Wilde
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average rating: 3.92
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rating: 5
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]]> 7322824 88 Oscar Wilde 8484038955 Alex 4 4.11 1895
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Alex
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 4
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]]> 668439 Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1968, Yasunari Kawabata es ampliamente conocido en Hispanoamérica por sus novelas incisivas, maravillosamente líricas y profundas. Pero según él mismo, la esencia de su arte debe ser buscada en la serie de historias cortas a las que llamó "historias en la palma de la mano" escrita a lo largo de su vida. Comenzó a experimentar con las formas breves en 1923 y retornó a ellas cada tanto. De hecho, el último de sus trabajos fue una reducción a la medida de la palma de la mano de una de sus obras mayores, País de nieve, escrita poco antes de su suicidio en 1972.
Como soñadas, intensamente atmosféricas, por momentos autobiográficas y otras veces fantásticas, estas historias reflejan el concentrado interés del autor japonés por la miniatura, el fragmento de argumentos reducidos a lo esencial y la escritura relámpago. En Historias en la palma de la mano conviven la soledad, el amor, el paso del tiempo, los rituales y la muerte. Este conjunto de relatos captura el rango inigualable y la complejidad de uno de los más grandes talentos literarios del siglo xx.

]]> 289 Yasunari Kawabata 9500427389 Alex 0 to-read 3.74 1971
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]]> 196152 208 Edogawa Rampo 8496423220 Alex 0 to-read 3.92 1956
author: Edogawa Rampo
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]]> 472331 Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history—the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect.

Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes.]]> 416 Alan Moore 0930289234 Alex 4 4.38 1987
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]]> 6334
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Alex 0 to-read 3.85 2005
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]]> 4597088 202 Yasunari Kawabata 9875802867 Alex 0 to-read 3.81 1964
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]]> 14032
In the title story, the protagonist visits a brothel where elderly men spend a chaste but lecherous night with a drugged, unconscious virgin. As he admires the girl's beauty, he recalls his past womanizing, and reflects on the relentless course of old age.

In One Arm, a young girl removes her right arm and gives it to the narrator to take home for the night; a surreal seduction follows as he tries to allay its fears, caresses it, and even replaces his own right arm with it.

The protagonist of Of Birds and Beasts prefers the company of his pet birds and dogs to people, yet for him all living beings are beautiful objects which, though they give him pleasure, he treats with casual cruelty.

Beautiful yet chilling, richly poetic yet subtly disturbing, these stories make compelling reading and reaffirm Kawabata s status as a world-class writer.]]> 148 Yasunari Kawabata 4770029756 Alex 0 to-read 3.82 1961
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]]> 4671 The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]> 180 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743273567 Alex 4 3.93 1925
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]]> 3430763 432 Inio Asano 1421523213 Alex 0 to-read 4.22 2006
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]]> 28923
Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, more than twenty years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging, to solve the mystery of the disappearances.

The story is straightforward. Its telling is remarkable. Christopher's voice is controlled, detailed, and detached, its precision unsurprising in someone who has devoted his life to the examination of details and the rigors of objective thought. But within the layers of his narrative is slowly revealed what he can't, or won't, see: that his memory, despite what he wants to believe, is not unaffected by his childhood tragedies; that his powers of perception, the heralded clarity of his vision, can be blinding as well as enlightening; and that the simplest desires--a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding--may give rise to the most complicated truths.

A masterful combination of narrative control and soaring imagination, When We Were Orphans is Kazuo Ishiguro at his best.]]> 320 Kazuo Ishiguro 0571225403 Alex 0 to-read 3.53 2000
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]]> 1667 159 Ernesto Sabato 8432216429 Alex 4 favorites, reviews
No sólo éso, es también la historia de cómo termina por matarla, y al hacer ésto, mata una parte de sí mismo.

Novela inequívocamente autobiográfica (andando con zapatos de ficción) que me recuerda episodios personales, rostros y momentos.

Es la historia para todo hombre enamorado de una mujer de ésas que consumen el alma.]]> 4.00 1948
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Nadando en la soledad y en la desesperanza, Juan Pablo Castel inicia una enfermiza relación con María Iribarne, una enigmática figura que deambula en un mundo lleno de lujuria, dolor, misterio y secretos.

No sólo éso, es también la historia de cómo termina por matarla, y al hacer ésto, mata una parte de sí mismo.

Novela inequívocamente autobiográfica (andando con zapatos de ficción) que me recuerda episodios personales, rostros y momentos.

Es la historia para todo hombre enamorado de una mujer de ésas que consumen el alma.
]]> 86211 211 Jorge Ibargüengoitia Alex 4 4.23 1979
author: Jorge Ibargüengoitia
name: Alex
average rating: 4.23
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]]> 59455 "Me siento oscura y luminosa, provinciana y newyorka, violada y violadora; traigo ganas de usarlo para estrellarme contra una pared.

Violetta tiene quince años cuando cruza la frontera con más de cien mil dólares robados a sus padres, asimismo excelentes amigos de lo ajeno. Azarosamente desembarcada en Nueva York, sobrevive durante cuatro años a todo tren, gastando montones de dinero en caprichos caros y descabellados. Para mantener semejante tren de vida, acelerado todavía más por el polvo blanco que introduce por su nariz en cantidades generosas, se enseña a enganchar hombres en lobbies de hoteles lujosos. No sabe, ni le interesa, la cantidad de leyes, límites y preceptos a los que pasa por encima. Tampoco sabe que Nefastófeles, el supuesto rico heredero que la deslumbra, será como una daga clavada en su bella espalda hasta que, ya de vuelta en México, se tope con Pig, y llegue entonces la hora del Diablo Guardián. Pero lo que Violetta sí sabe es que es tiempo de arrojar los dados y cerrar los ojos, casi con ganas de que a todo se lo lleve el diablo; y que, generalmente, eso lo haces sólo cuando de plano crees que ya te va a llevar.]]> 504 Xavier Velasco 9505118333 Alex 2 4.09 2003
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]]> 305858 838 Leo Tolstoy 0670894788 Alex 5 4.05 1878
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]]> 2302476 The End by Salvatore Scibona follows an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy, a jeweler―dramatically into the heart of a crime that will twist all their lives. Against a background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, we at last return to August 15, 1953, and see everything Rocco saw―and vastly more―through the eyes of various characters in the crowds.
The End is the unforgettable debut of a singular new American novelist.]]> 320 Salvatore Scibona 1555974988 Alex 0 to-read 3.39 2008
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]]> 374233 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration��"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.

The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches—stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition—with explorations of how and why we choose to read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."]]> 260 Italo Calvino Alex 4 4.06 1979
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]]> 6428895
Hajime vive una existencia relativamente feliz –se ha casado, es padre de dos niñas y dueño de un club de jazz�� cuando se reencuentra con Shimamoto, su mejor amiga de la infancia y la adolescencia. Y la atracción renace Hajime parece dispuesto a dejarlo todo por ella... Una historia sobre amores perdidos y recobrados, sobre la consumación de una promesa de plenitud, que destila la indefinible sensación de desajuste con el mundo que acucia al hombre contemporáneo.]]> 266 Murakami 987121071X Alex 4
Quedan muchos hilos inconexos, pero a pesar de ello ésta obra trascendió en mi, me ayudó a superar ciertas cuestiones y seguramente te hará pensar al tiempo que te mueve como si fuera una tibia canción de jazz.]]> 3.88 1992
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Éste fué uno de ésos libros que llegan en el momento justo. No es su mejor obra e incluso llega a ser floja en algunos aspectos, pero logra crear una mística muy particular. La protagonista de nombre Shimamoto, se convierte en una especie de aparición sobrenatural, que envuelve a Hajime y al lector con su sensualidad y misterio.

Quedan muchos hilos inconexos, pero a pesar de ello ésta obra trascendió en mi, me ayudó a superar ciertas cuestiones y seguramente te hará pensar al tiempo que te mueve como si fuera una tibia canción de jazz.
]]> 4929 Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.]]> 467 Haruki Murakami 1400079276 Alex 4 4.14 2002
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]]> 2563567
Versos indómitos, sin restricción alguna, al libre encauzamiento de su energía, donde Whitman abre su corazón y su canto.]]> 125 Walt Whitman 8497643488 Alex 4 4.10 1856
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]]> 1167751 Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future.

While 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely than ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia", that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world �� so powerful that it's completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of entire generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions �� a legacy that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.]]> 268 George Orwell Alex 4 ����貹ñ�DZ� 4.12 1949
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Después de leerlo 3 veces considero que, a diferencia de lo que muchos opinan, la calidad literaria de ésta historia es magnífica. Orwell cuenta la historia de una forma tan personal y tan centrada en el personaje (en el cual te vas trasmutando) que se convierte en una experiencia vivencial.
]]> 50454 200 Charles Bukowski 8433914871 Alex 4 ����貹ñ�DZ� 3.64 1994
author: Charles Bukowski
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average rating: 3.64
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Excelente lectura. He aquí mi poema a Pulp. [mañana lo escribo] Añado que Bukowski es un guarro.
]]> 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Alex 4 4.04 1942
author: Albert Camus
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This is the kind of books that use to blow your mind with its sardonic comments to our society. Even when it plays with the idea of the absurd, you can feel everything as it were real. It opens your mind and makes you think how ironic the world is indeed. A masterpiece, but I didn't find in it the exhilarating moments I was expecting.
]]> 1013281 Canasta de cuentos mexicanos es el producto de la privilegiada visión de uno de los escritores más destacados del siglo XX. B. Traven, narrador que pudo entender e interpretar como nadie la realidad mexicana, nos describe en una serie de cuentos la vida de los indios resaltando su ingenio, agudeza y mordacidad.
Estos textos de prosa sencilla y humor directo han sido leídos y alabados por generaciones enteras en todo el mundo.]]> 216 B. Traven 9706436421 Alex 4 3.93 1956
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]]> 2947273 440 Truman Capote Alex 4 4.22 1966
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]]> 5015
Later, as Perowne makes his way through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors, a minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance as the Perowne family gathers for a reunion, that Henry's fears seem about to be realised.]]> 289 Ian McEwan 1400076196 Alex 0 to-read 3.64 2005
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]]> 18414 Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, political disagreements, social quarrels, and wealth distribution and imagines the day-to-day lives of those citizens enjoying freedom from fear, oppression, violence, and suffering. Originally written in Latin, this vision of an ideal world is also a scathing satire of Europe in the sixteenth century and has been hugely influential since publication, shaping utopian fiction even today.]]> 113 Thomas More 0140449108 Alex 5 3.53 1516
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]]> 1439859 194 Ai Iijima 8495908875 Alex 1 3.03 2000
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]]> 12764 The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico. Its acknowledged place in Latin American fiction and its appeal to a fresh generation of readers have warranted this new translation by Alfred Mac Adam, translator (with the author) of Fuentes's Christopher Unborn.

As in all his fiction, but perhaps most powerfully in this book, Fuentes is a passionate guide to the ironies of Mexican history, the burden of its past, and the anguish of its present.]]> 307 Carlos Fuentes 0374522839 Alex 3 3.88 1962
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]]> 54008 Rayuela, la gran novela de Julio Cortázar. El libro donde el escritor argentino supo condensar sus propias obsesiones estéticas, literarias y vitales en un mosaico casi inagotable donde toda una época se vio maravillosamente reflejada. El amor turbulento de Oliveira y La Maga, los amigos del Club de la Serpiente, las caminatas por París en busca del cielo y el infierno tienen su contracara en la aventura simétrica de Oliveira, Talita y Traveler en un Buenos Aires teñido por el recuerdo.

La aparición de Rayuela en 1963 fue una verdadera revolución dentro de la novelística en lengua castellana: por primera vez, un escritor llevaba hasta las últimas consecuencias la voluntad de transgredir el orden tradicional de una historia y el lenguaje para contarla. El resultado es este libro único, abierto a múltiples lecturas, lleno de humor, de riesgo y de una originalidad sin precedentes.]]> 728 Julio Cortázar 8466319050 Alex 4 4.21 1963
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]]> 2756451 Se trata en realidad de puros recuerdos de infancia, de cosas leídas, vistas y oídas, puestas una tras otra, al azar. La fidelidad a los giros populares y el realismo mágico de ciertos personajes son tal vez las mejores cualidades de este libro desordenado, múltiple y singular, breve y abundante.
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]]> 2146974 “Su campo de acción es el ser humano, ya que su aproximación al mundo de los animales se cobijan en Jonathan Swift y las bestias sugieren conductas de hombres; sin embargo, las descripciones son portentosas y no sólo incluyen los símbolos naturales sino visión poética y conocimiento intuitivo”]]> 203 Juan José Arreola 9682700728 Alex 5 3.97 1938
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]]> 1153141 163 Juan José Arreola 9682700701 Alex 4 4.06 1952
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]]> 7186 World's Classics.]]> 256 Alexandre Dumas fils 0192836382 Alex 4 4.03 1848
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]]> 191373
1. "Casa Tomada" ("House Taken Over")
2. " Carta a una señorita en París" (Letter to a Young Lady in Paris")
3. "Lejana" ("The Distances")
4. "Ómnibus" ("Omnibus")
5. "Cefalea" ("Headache")
6. "Circe" ("Circe")
7. "Las puertas del cielo" ("The Gates of Heaven")
8. "Bestiario" ("Bestiary")]]> 104 Julio Cortázar 8466309896 Alex 4 4.25 1951
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