Cuaderno antártico

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“The largest, most beautiful impression of my life,” wrote Jean Lorrain to his mother from Venice in 1898. Autumn had arrived, when twilight falls over the city in decorated decadence, crowded with melancholy. Several texts of unique beauty, filled with both poetry and knowledge emerged through his travel. Those that we meet here offer us a vision of Venice that is notably realistic but also fascinating, emotional, and sentimental. Some pages include the cries of anguish from the city's patrons as its architecture deteriorates and is abandoned, while other pages forget about the ruins,...

La defensa de las "Soledades" de Góngora, que levantó polémicas desde su aparición, se ha hecho en nombre de lo que Dámaso Alonso llamó "el puro placer de las formas". Esta edición sugiere otra lectura basada en el desengaño de la corte y el destino político de España. En cuanto al texto, sólo se aparta levemente de la edición de Dámaso Alonso en la restauración de algunos elementos barrocos.

La eficiente secretaria Sally Gregg tenía que cuidar de su jefe durante una semana. Sin teléfono. Sin ordenadores. Sin estrés. No iba a ser nada fácil estar desconectado del mundo para un adicto al trabajo como Vince Donnelly, un tirano que a Sally no le despertaba el menor interés fuera de la oficina. Pero entonces el empresario empezó a sentirse atraído por su secretaria y decidió que la mejor manera de pasar el tiempo era... seducirla.