New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009

The story of a city from 1880 to 1940 through a family ... the Cuquillos, and some others. The war in Morocco, military Esteban’s discovery of different cultures, Arabic and Christian, the relationship between sculptor Víctor González Gil  and Miguel Hernández and the atmosphere at the Pombo, filled with artists, and then civil war.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a great master of terror : confined or open spaces, psychological stress or extraordinary events serve to create his personal way of narrating and constructing a new aesthetics through fear, an element which has been present in literature since its origins.

A script for Artkino, Fogwill´s «last» novel, is one of his funniest works, though an extremely unfunny truth lurks behind the obvious jokes, behind the laughter.