El espíritu del bosque

At first, a little girl is thrilled when her parents bring home her baby brother, but soon jealousy takes over. Her mother helps her overcome her resentment in this story that many readers will be able to relate to.

Un libro de crónicas, semblanzas, reportajes y entrevistas que quiebran el sueño y el sopor y hacen crecer una sonrisa divertida de principio a fin.

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...

El lector español tiene ahora a su alcance una de las mejores obras de la narrativa árabe contemporánea: Los tigres al décimo día (1979). Se trata de la última colección de relatos a veces, microcuentos- publicada por el escritor sirio Zakariyya Tamir antes de su exilio.