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Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own text, the novel has won wide approval in Latin America and the United States. The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining...

Named a Best Book of the Year by PopMatters A literary sensation in France, this poetic, thrilling debut charts the all-consuming passion between two women and the ruin it leaves in its wake. A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite of a new boyfriend. And then one night at a friend's tepid New Year's Eve party, Sarah enters the scene like a tornado—a talented young violinist, she is loud, vivacious, appealingly unkempt in a world where everyone seems preoccupied with being “just so.” Thus begins an intense relationship, ...

Este libro recoge la vision de mas de veinte especialistas de diversas materias y constituye una reflexion seria, profunda y documentada sobre los factibles escenarios a largo plazo que podrian aguardar a nuestro pais. Todos ellos ponen el acento sobre las variables socioeconomicas, entretejen una gran cantidad de temas --demografia, educacion, politica, tecnologia, contexto internacional, entre otros-- y conforman un mosaico interdisciplinario de gran valor propositivo.

Había nacido así: con fuego erótico en sus venas. ¿Podía hacérsele responsable? ¿Qué culpa tenía ella de que los hombres acabaran siempre rindiéndose ante aquella increíble, fabulosa fogarada que era su cuerpo...?