Cazador de Demonios

"Juro que vengaré tu muerte, Mariano de mi alma. Sé que estarás orgulloso de mí, de mi valentía que es la tuya, que es la de la familia, la de los Boedo..." Damasita Boedo es la joven más bonita de la alta sociedad salteña. Proveniente de una tradicional familia federal y tempranamente huérfana, crece junto con sus hermanos al cuidado de sus tíos paternos. Su infancia y su adolescencia transcurren entre las atenciones solícitas de parientes y criados, y la alternancia festiva con las familias más encumbradas de Salta. Sin embargo, muy temprano muestra un carácter impetuoso e...

El Matadero depicts a characteristic scene of the terrible times in Argentina before its institutionalization as a democratic republic. Esteban Echeverria transports us in place and time, and allows us to witness and relive the opressive climate of the regime against which he fought, and that was finally defeated by Urquiza giving way to the country dreamed by Alberdi, Mitre and Sarmiento, among many others. Member of Marcos Sastre's literary salon, when Rozas orders it closure Echeverria founded the Asociacion de Mayo, a secretive society following Mazzini's Young Italy. The matadero (the...

Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. Renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to recreate the author's original text word by word.

[T]hree linked stories, Chance, Soon, and Silence which, together, inspired Pedro Almodovar's film Julieta.