Progressive myths
Huemer attempts to decipher what lies behind the progressive myths of our time. He divides them into personal, racial, feminist, gender, economic, and scientific myths, and concludes with a final analytical...
Adults
The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze
Saroyan (1908–1981) was a master of the short story. The work reviewed was the first collected volume he published (it contains 26 short stories). It became an immediate bestseller and he was recognized as...
Time of Silence
Time of Silence (1961) is a novel by the Spanish physician and psychiatrist Luis Martín-Santos that above all reflects the existential void (the absence of God) experienced by its protagonist, Pedro, a...
The Camino
Do we really know the people we live with? Can a person overcome the crimes they have committed? Is nationalism a manipulation of personality, even its annulment? Can walking the Camino de Santiago serve as...
Exemplary Novels
The Exemplary Novels, published in 1613, constitute, according to the author himself, the first example of short story in Castilian literature, in accordance with the meaning of the word "novel" at that...
Then there were three
Geoffrey Homes is the pen name of Daniel Mainwaring, novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for Eleven mi horca (Build My Gallows High) and its film adaptation, made by Mainwaring himself, Retorno al...
A World for Julius
The author (Lima, 1939–2026) projects himself into Julius, the protagonist of a memorable novel, fundamental in the literature of the second half of the 20th century. Like Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Julius...
The Tortoise and the Hare
A novel of high literary quality, published in 1954, about the marital crisis of Evelyn Gresham, a prestigious lawyer, and Imogen, his wife, younger than him, shortly after the end of the Second World War....
A Little Hatred
We return to the City of the White Towers, the heart of the Union, Adua, which, according to legend, was founded by the very First of the Magi, Bayaz.
With the king now firmly established on his...
For Whom the Bell Tolls?
During the Spanish Civil War, in the Sierra de Guadarrama, a handful of Republican militiamen, guided by an American volunteer from the International Brigades, attempt to carry out the mission of blowing up...