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Resumen: "En este volumen, como en los estudios reunidos en De las orillas del Plata (Simurg, 2005), surgen hipótesis, análisis y cuestionamientos sobre escritores de las dos orillas del Río de la Plata. Siempre presentes, escritores uruguayos y argentinos de este tiempo acompañan las reflexiones compartidas a través de diálogos vivos o de la lectura de sus obras, en las voces de poetas, narradores y críticos".

Resumen: The arresting stories in this slim collection by Auster (The New York Trilogy, etc.) go a long way toward answering the perennial question "Why write?" The book contains four short narratives: "The Red Notebook," "It Don't Mean a Thing," "Accident Report" and "Why Write?" All the tales and vignettes, hovering somewhere between fact and fiction, feature amazing little coincidences or linkages. In one brief chapter, Auster (as protagonist) loses a dime in a gutter in Brooklyn only to look down and find a dime later the same day. In another, he checks into a hotel room in an obscure hotel in Paris and finds a crumpled message from the desk to a close friend-the previous occupant of the room. The most affecting stories, however, recount a more ineffable sense of connection: Auster makes it to the foot of a staircase to catch his little daughter just in time to keep her from sailing through a window; as a boy at summer camp, he is on a group hike when the boy next to him is struck by lightning and killed. What all the stories have in common is not a fixed outcome or meaning but a sense of the patterned meaningfulness of life. Readers will glimpse here how the act of witnessing itself provides the punch line.

Resumen: Este libro, que se publica a los veinticinco años de la muerte de su autor, es una extensa y deslumbrante colección de textos inéditos y dispersos escritos por Cortázar a lo largo de su vida. Hallados en su mayoría en una vieja cómoda sin revisar, son de géneros varios , tienen distintos orígenes y obedecen a diferentes propósitos: hay cuentos desconocidos y otras versiones de relatos publicados, historias inéditas de cronopios y de famas, nuevos episodios de Lucas, un capítulo desgajado del Libro de Manuel, discursos, prólogos, artículos sobre arte y literatura, crónicas de viaje, estampas de personalidades, notas políticas, autoentrevistas, poemas y textos inclasificables, entre otras muchas páginas de innegable valor y atractivo. El conjunto permite apreciar y disfrutar las múltiples facetas de gran escritor: el Cortázar formal y en ciernes, el cuentista genial, el de espíritu lúdico, el comprometido con su tiempo, el profundo conocedor del arte y la literatura, el cronista sutil, el poeta. Estos Papeles inesperados, cuidadosamente editados por Aurora Bernárdez y Carles Alvarez Garriga, ofrecen al especialista nuevos elementos para el conocimiento cabal de la obra cortazariana; al coleccionista, textos entrañables y curiosidades maravillosas; y a los innumerables lectores de Cortázar, la posibilidad de reencuentro más feliz.

Resumen: Jorge Luis Borges's fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing; the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word; the fatal lottery in Babylon; the mysterious planet of Tlön; and the library containing every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries, gaucho knife fights and dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later, it remains endlessly intriguing.

Resumen: Bornes likens the making of fiction to a game of chess, and it is to a game of chess that his fictions, once made, invite their readers ... 'He has one of the sharpest, most exhaustive literary intelligences one will ever meet with; there is endless instruction as well as endless pleasure to be had from reading his work', John Sturrock. The stories in The Book of Sand were all written in Borges's seventies. 'Blind. man's exercises', he calls them. Yet his way of conjuring with images - an infinite book, a one-sided disc, mirrors, a golden mask, a dagger is as potent and beautiful as ever, and he is incapable of losing his visionary touch. 'A marveHous collection to which one will return again and again ... But the book offers more than this, for its second half consists of exquisite poems ... suffice it to say here that Borges can still write a poem about the nightingale, and get away with it. A book to treasure' - Allan Massie in the Scotsman"....