La maleta de Úrsula

as piezas incluidas por Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) en HISTORIAS DE ALMANAQUE fueron escritas a lo largo de muchos años y dan en un primer momento la impresión de una heterogeneidad irreductible: poemas, narraciones que tienen como protagonistas a figuras históricas (Giordano Bruno, Francis Bacon, César o Sócrates), relatos que se desarrollan en tiempos remotos (la Guerra de los Treinta Años) o en la edad contemporánea (los últimos combates de la Segunda Guerra Mundial), aforismos y proverbios (como los expresados por el señor Kauner), etc. Sin embargo, un motivo central confiere...

In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...

Madeline Crawford has loved Jeremy Whitman for twelve years, but ultimately it was him who sent her to prison. In between her suffering and pain, she had to witness her man fall in love with another woman…Five years later, she has returned with renewed strength, no longer the same woman he belittled years ago!With this newfound strength, she will tear apart those who pretend to be pure and step on the scums of this earth. However, just as she is about to have her revenge with the man who wronged her… He suddenly turns from a cold, unfeeling psychopath, to a caring, warm and loving man!In...

“Los libros no pueden ser morales ni inmorales”, afirmaba Clarín, en 1896, al coleccionar en libro sus «Cuentos morales». Así los llamó porque “en ellos predomina la atención del autor [...] al «hombre interior», su pensamiento, su sentir, su voluntad”. Veintiocho relatos o “cuadros morales”, fruto, según José María Merino, de la “poderosa imaginación del autor para inventar personajes”. Un verdadero “archivo de almas”, muy representativo de la cultura española y europea del cuento periodístico y literario «fin de siècle». Más de un siglo después, con la ...