Un mundo de sensaciones

Benito Pérez Galdós publica “El audaz” en 1871, la segunda novela de la que empezaría ya a ser su prolífica carrera como escritor. Galdós fusiona la novela histórica y la de costumbres con el empeño patriótico de renovar las letras españolas y difundir en la nación los principios regeneradores de la modernidad liberal.

What is so seductive about the idea of escaping? Why do we all feel the desire to flee and only few dare to fulfill it? In this novel, Norma Knot introduces us to four possible artists of escapism: Sofia, a woman caught in her own melancholy that is not able to run away from herself; Carmelo, an old escapist that is able to break away from a magic box while he continues to be trapped in a tortuous relationship; Sebastian, a former prodigy boy trying to forget the disillusion that he caused his parents and, finally, a Bengala tiger that escapes from its captivity causing chaos in the city. The ...

La camarera negra del tugurio en el que el periodista del Telegraph aplaca la úlcera con unos escoceses, está preocupada por un asesino de rubias que anda suelto. El periodista la tranquiliza, porque ella no debe temer nada, pero él acaba con el gabán destrozado, sin sombrero y sin su pluma.

'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History . . . Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno . . . He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' Jonathan Raban, Observer