El bunker de Noé

Luis Porro regresa con La grieta en la pared, una colección de seis relatos que comparten el mismo universo extraño, malsano y despiadado con el que ya sorprendiese en su novela Fantasmas, donde la presencia de lo onírico tiene al menos el mismo peso y trascendencia que aquello que nos parece experimentar en eso que algunos llaman la vida real, y que, para Porro, no es más que un muestrario de imágenes distorsionadas y falsos recuerdos que se amontonan hacinados sobre una memoria de cimientos flácidos.Dice el escritor polaco Bruno Schulz (La calle de los cocodrilos), que la realidad es...

Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea. All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone, to start a new life in America as did so many in those times of hardship and famine. But who were her family in Ireland and where are they...

La presente edición reúne las dieciocho comedias y tragicomedias compuestas por William Shakespeare (1564-1616). En ella se recogen las traducciones de Ángel-Luis Pujante, reconocido especialista en Shakespeare, publicadas en la colección Austral, y se incluyen ocho traducciones inéditas: Los dos caballeros de Verona, Todo bien si acaba bien, Cimbelino (de Ángel-Luis Pujante), La fierecilla domada, Las alegres comadres de Windsor (de Salvador Oliva), Pericles (de Salvador Oliva y Ángel-Luis Pujante), La comedia de los enredos y Afanes de amor en vano (de Alfredo Michel Modenessi),...

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are...