Al oído de la cordillera

"Once upon a time there was a brave little silver colored fish. He swam around in the big blue sea and came upon a very large black object. What happens next and how it finishes, is what this book is about!"

Poetry in English and Spanish, openly political, blatantly blunt, and religiously irreverent, reaches from the innermost corners of the soul to the streets of New York, to the battlegrounds of Central America, and finally to union with the godhead

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created by Moliere. This reinterpretation of French farce according to the principle of a topsy-turvy world reveals the link of madness that unites the four modes of production studied, from textual linearity, through representational...

Un libro en el que las bellas artes y la gastronomía son sabrosos condimentos del plato fuerte: el humor. Benjamin Chaud parte de las obras más emblemáticas de grandes maestros del arte, explora sus excentricidades y los sienta a la mesa de un restaurante. El resultado es un compendio de jocosas escenas en las que la comedia humana se inicia en el encuadre de un menú y evoluciona sin límites ni previsiones. (Libros del Zorro Rojo).