Woman of Endurance, A \ Indómita (Spanish edition)

Umberto Eco nos invita aqu a acompaarle a explorar las complejidades de la forma y del mtodo narrativo. Nos seduce utilizando las tcnicas del novelista y nos hace sus cmplices en la investigacin de algunos de los mtodos narrativos ms destacados, valindose para ello de un sorprendente abanico de ejemplos, que van desde los cuentos de hadas hasta Nerval.

Entremés publicado en 1615, en el que se narra cómo Cañizares, un hombre extremadamente celoso, tiene encerrada a su mujer en casa y cómo ésta, con la ayuda de una vecina, consigue darle un escarmiento a su marido.

One day, in a small town in Florida, a teenager goes to the supermarket with his three-year-old brother. Everything seems normal until the child disappears. Five years later, without any discovery and the family undone, Ben decides to work at the same store where his brother disappeared. Little by little he begins to find tracks left behind by dark characters with unrecognizable features and foul odors. He can feel that something is wrong there. The store has much to tell him, so he keeps searching while missing the most important message of all. That he should have stopped looking.

Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) is the most prolific and important woman writer of the 19th century in Colombia. She is an exceptional representative of Colombian intellectual life of that century, not only for the caliber of her writing, the divergent disciplines that she researched and wrote about, and the intense cultural work that she undertook. An avid reader, in her travels to England and France, she personally lived the debates regarding the public presence of the woman writer, as well as the influence that women should or could exercise in society, especially in the lives of...