A psychopathic killer of university students is on the loose in Bologna. A young woman rookie detective in charge of the case gets unexpected help from a blind man who spends his days home alone, listening to jazz and to the sounds of the city on his scanner. An intense and impeccable thriller by Italy's master of nuovo Italian noir.
Este libro habla del mal endemico de las letras contemporaneas, de los que dejan de escribir (Rulfo, Rimbaud, Salinger, etc.) e indaga en los motivos de cada uno para preferir no hacerlo. Los bartlebys son esos seres en los que habita una profunda negacion del mundo. Toman su nombre del escribiente Bartleby, oficinista de un relato de Herman Melvil...more
Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into lettin...more
Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.
The year is 2203, and the ruler of the Universe is chosen according to the random laws of a strange game under the control of Quizmaster Verrick. But when Ted Bentley, a research technician recently dismissed from his job, signs on to work for Verrick, he has no idea that Leon Cartwright is about to become the new Quizmaster. Nor does he know that ...more
In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary.
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