La romana indómita

¿Qué sucede cuando descubres que el final de tu cuento no es como soñabas? - Érase una vez una mujer que lo tenía todo y un chico que no tenía nada. - Érase una vez una historia de amor entre el éxito y la duda. - Érase una vez un cuento perfecto. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION What happens when you find that an ending to a story is not as you had imagined it would be? Once upon a time, there was a girl who had everything, and a boy who had nothing. Once upon a time, there was a love story between success and doubt. Once upon a time, there was a perfect short story.

Una epopeya sin héroe que da cuenta, con humor y furia, del lado áspero de la vida. Bajo el título común Vive sin drogas ofrecemos aquí dos de esos relatos, breves epopeyas sin héroes que dan cuenta, con humor y furia, del lado áspero de la vida y son una pequeña muestra de la obra, tensa y afilada, de uno de los nuevos talentos de la narrativa actual. En 2006 Julián Herbert recibía el Premio Nacional de Cuento Juan José Arreola por los relatos contenidos en Cocaína (Manual del usuario), donde se pueden encontrar los relatos «Vive sin drogas I» y «Vive sin drogas II».

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.

Burroughs and Kerouac: Two Outsiders Lost in Mexico This edition comprises two texts that explore the voyages of William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, who traveled to Mexico half a century ago: The Lost Bullet (1995 Malcolm Lowry Prize for Literary Essay) and The Disguise of Innocence. "I have left both texts intact," says Jorge Garca-Robles, "thinking that they were written in a specific time and space, and this makes them irreducible." This book combines, in an admirable and spontaneous manner, the portraits of two sui generis outsiders. Our backdrop consists of deserted landscapes,...