Rituales literarios

"Todos los años empiezo mi lista de cumpleaño el día después de reyes. Y lo primero que pongo son todas las cosas que a los reyes magos se les ha olvidado traerme, pero este año mis padres han hecho trampa. Me han pedido que solo escriba en mi lista cosas que no se pueden guardar. Lo que no saben es que tengo un montón de ideas chulísmas para mi nueva lista"--P. [4] of cover.

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...

A sixteen-year-old girl writes in her diary about all the problems and events of her life, which include romance, depression, animal rights, stress, and health.

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...