LETRAS

Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood, and of all his works his beloved novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer most enchantingly and timelessly captures the sheer pleasure of being a boy. Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he is reckless and mischievous, whether conning his friends into painting a fence, playing pirates with his pal Huck Finn, witnessing his own funeral, or helping to catch a murderer. Twain’s novel glows with nostalgia for the Mississippi River towns of his youth and sparkles with his famous humor, but it is also woven throughout with a subtle awareness of the injustices and complexities of the old South that Twain so memorably portrays.

Long cherished by readers of all ages, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a powerful parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world. The mighty Mississippi River of the antebellum South gives the novel both its colorful backdrop and its narrative shape, as the runaways Huck and Jim—a young rebel against civilization allied with an escaped slave—drift down its length on a flimsy raft. Their journey, at times rollickingly funny but always deadly serious in its potential consequences, takes them ever deeper into the slave-holding South, and our appreciation of their shared humanity grows as we watch them travel physically farther from yet morally closer to the freedom they both passionately seek.

La Conjura De Los Necios es una disparatada, ácida e inteligentísima novela. Pero no sólo eso, tambien es tremendamente divertida y amarga a la vez. La carcajada escapa por sí sola ante las situaciones desproporcionadas de esta gran tragicomedia. Ignatius J. Really es, probablemente, uno de los mejores personajes jamás creados y al que muchos no dudan en comparar con el Quijote. Más aún, es el antiprotagonista perfecto para una novela repleta de excelentes personajes, situados en la portuaria ciudad de Nueva Orleans, magistral Ignatius. Él es un incomprendido, una persona de treinta y pocos años que vive en la casa de su madre y que lucha por lograr un mundo mejor desde el interior de su habitación. Pero cruelmente se verá arrastrado a vagar por las calles de Nueva Orleans en busca de trabajo, obligado a adentrarse en la sociedad, con la que mantiene una relación de repulsión mutua, para poder sufragar los gastos causados por su madre en un accidente de coche mientras conducía ebria.