Interrupciones

Martin Luis Guzman fue uno de los grandes cronistas la Revolucion mexicana, tema en el que su pluma ensayo distintos generos, imbuido tanto por los alientos de la ficcion como por su pasion por la indagacion de caracter historico. En este segundo tomo de sus Obras completas se incluye La sombra del Caudillo, su novela mas celebre, asi como Axkana Gonzalez en las elecciones; Javier Mina, heroe de Espana y Mexico; Filadelfia, paraiso de conspiradores; Piratas y corsarios; Academia; Islas Marias y Maestros rurales.

Terminados los estudios universitarios, Franz Hoozenberger, un joven alsaciano muy metodico, con una vision simetrica de las cosas, inicia unas placidas vacaciones en la casa familiar con el fin de planificar para siempre su futuro. El azar pone en sus manos una vieja y misteriosa botella de Gewurtztraminer del 78, casi inencontrable, que lleva una etiqueta con un enigmatico y arriesgado mensaje: quien beba de ese vino obtendra la facultad de intercambiar, de forma transitoria, la propia personalidad con alguien que comparta voluntariamente la experiencia. Se trata, pues, para Franz de...

Praise for Mezcal: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind as only the very best books manage to do."—Harry Crews "The author . . . excavates his own tormented life—and its relation to the land he loves—in a series of powerful, imagistic autobiographical essays. Like the desert he cherishes, this memoir is harsh yet lovely, full of sour self-truth. . ...

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