En este libro ambientado en Los Ángeles se nota la continua presencia de la gran urbe en toda la escritura de Charles Bukowski, ciudad infernal, a pesar de estar situada en medio del paraíso californiano, sueño de todo pobre ciudadano USA, con sus naranjas, su sol y su vino, vino del que Bukowski da buena cuenta toda su vid...

Se ha afirmado que el relato es la forma narrativa por excelencia en la literatura norteamericana actual y que Raymond Carver es el maestro indiscutible de este registro. En cada relato de Catedral se revela la presencia latente o la intrusión de"terrores extraordinarios en una existencia ordinaria"(Cathleen Medwick). El pr...

«Un maestro de la sátira anarquista. Una leyenda viviente» (New York Reviewof Books); «Los más honestos, directos, iluminadores e importantes relatos publicados en este país en los últimos 20 años» (San Francisco Chronicle).

Este libro constituye la herramienta de trabajo para cursar la asignatura de Métodos y Técnicas de Investigación Histórica I del nuevo grado del EEES (Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior) en Geografía e Historia de la UNED, aunque también puede ser de utilidad para todos aquellos que estén interesados en cuestiones de met...

Los deslumbrados lectores de"Catedral", primer libro publicado en España de Carver, reencontrarán en"De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor"la atmósfera y los personajes de un autor que dominó indiscutiblemente el panorama literario norteamericano de los años 80. Parejas que se despedazan, compañeros que parten desesperada...

Few men have gone beyond that barrier, into the vast mystery of Inner Venus. Fewer still have come back.ExcerptThe ship moved slowly across the Red Sea, through the shrouding veils of mist, her sail barely filled by the languid thrust of the wind. Her hull, of a thin light metal, floated without sound, the surface of the st...

Eric Falken couldnt run any more. At least hed led the Hiltonists away from the pitiful starving holes where his people hid, on the outer planets and barren asteroids and dark derelict hulks floating far outside the traveled lanes.ExcerptEric Falken stood utterly still, staring down at his leashed and helpless hands on the ...

Pendletons quiet voice was grave."Mars is old and tired and torn with famine. Venus is young, but her courage is undisciplined. Her barbarians arent suited to mechanized warfare. And Earth..."He sighed."Perhaps if we hadnt fought so much among ourselves..."ExcerptMacVickers stopped at the brink of the dark round shaft.It wa...

MacIan was a man with a secret, and it had followed him to Venus and the Legion, escape was impossible…ExcerptSilence was on the barracks like a lid clamped over tight-coiled springs. Men in rumpled uniforms—outlanders of the Stellar Legion, space-rats, the scrapings of the Solar System—sweated in the sullen heat of the Ven...

It was driving men to madness… they had managed to capture it, but for how long?ExcerptLundy was flying the aero-space convertible by himself. Hed been doing it for a long time. So long that the bottom half of him was dead to the toes and the top half even deader, except for two separate aches like ulcerated teeth; one in h...