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Ni aquí ni en ningún otro lugar
Érase una vez una puerta custodiada por hadas y dragones. Érase un reino de bosques encantados y casas embrujadas, de castillos y palacios habitados por princesas y príncipes, brujas y hadas, gigantes y enanos. En este libro Patricia Esteban Erlés se acerca a esas historias, esos cuentos de la niñez, con una mirada y una reinvención personales de la tradición literaria y popular de la narrativa infantil. Un bello y estremecedor catálogo humano de gestos y de personajes marcados por el amor, la muerte, la traición, el miedo, la locura o la crueldad ilustrado por la artista chilena Alejandra Acosta para no olvidar que, en realidad, somos los libros que hemos leído y los relatos que nos han contado.
Casa de muñecas
Patricia Esteban Erlés nos invita a visitar su Casa de muñecas soñada, una idéntica a las que salían en aquellas películas antiguas protagonizadas por chiquillas ricas, pálidas y desdichadas; algo tan bonito, tan siniestro y tan delicado que parece imposible que exista fuera de la ficción. Esta Casa de muñecas tiene un dormitorio con armarios que esconden cosas y parejas que padecen de terror nupcial; un baño lleno de mujeres atrapadas en el espejo; el cuarto de los juguetes retiene a todas las niñas que pudimos ser; y el desván alto y oscuro de esta mansión de juguete, es un rincón maldito donde caben todos los miedos, las fobias irracionales o las criaturas que atormentan nuestra mente. Y hay muchas más habitaciones, más espacios y largos pasillos oscuros. Recorramos esta mansión, conozcamos sus misterios, admiremos su belleza magenta, pero sin olvidar que nos devolverá la mirada. Las casas de muñecas nos miran, se pasan la vida mirándonos.
Manderley en venta y otros cuentos
Patricia Esteban Erlés es la primera dama de una obra tan oscura como apasionante, construida a lo largo de los años y los títulos. Su mirada única y su voz magistral le han convertido en referente del universo fantástico en español. Los cuentos de Manderley en venta abren la puerta a obsesiones con el espacio doméstico, el extrañamiento de la rutina, el juego gótico, fantasmal y negro de lo insólito, la inquietud de la normalidad. Un libro indispensable para acceder a uno de los mundos más singulares de la literatura actual. Nadie hace lo que hace ella. Que se lo digan a las hermanas gemelas o a las muñecas que acaban encerradas en sus páginas. Tengan cuidado con este libro. En...
Azul ruso
Un libro que descansa sobre alegorías e imágenes poderosamente estructuradas, con una fuerte vocación narrativa y estética, bajo un orden que lleva de la mano al lector, saltando de universo en universo, donde lo fantástico y lo terriblemente real se dan la mano. Los relatos de Esteban Erlés desequilibran al lector, lo sumen en tonalidades azules e invitan a pasear entre personajes frágiles, que conviven con la ensoñación, con mundos truculentos que se transforman o se destruyen, con seres felinos, reales y soñados. Una misteriosa mujer que convierte en gatos a sus amantes, un superhéroe venido a menos, una iguana que condiciona la vida de una pareja, el desasosiego del que espera una llamada o el poder de la criptonita en manos de una mujer con gato albino. Trece relatos que sitúan a Patricia Esteban Erlés como una de las principales voces del cuento de esta primera década de siglo.
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Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature
Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply influenced by the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of fantastic texts in which the impossible is bound to space — space not as scene of action but as impossible element performing a fantastic transgression within the storyworld. This book conceptualizes and contextualizes this postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s...
Future Folk Horror
Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first century, caused by an ongoing pandemic and the divisive populist politics that have arisen around it. Further, this book shows how, through its increasing intersections with other genres such as science fiction, the weird, and eco-criticism as seen in films and texts like The Zero Theorum (2013), The Witcher (2007–2021), and Annihilation (2018) as well as through its engagement with topics around climate change, racism, and identity politics, folk horror can point to other ways of being in the world and visions of possible futures.
Take Six; Six Spanish women Writers
Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers is an anthology of short stories by six outstanding Spanish women writers: Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921), Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), Carmen Laforet (1921-2004), Cristina Fernández Cubas (born 1945), Soledad Puértolas (born 1947) and Patricia Erlés (born 1972). The stories span over one hundred years, starting with the indomitable Emilia Pardo Bazán, whose casual and often humorous protrayal of brutal domestic violence set a paradigm for the writers who followed her to explore every aspect of the roles imposed on women by a male-dominated society, delving into subjects ranging from love and betrayal to bereavement, arson and murder, without losing touch with the humorous side of seemingly impossible situations. Take Six; Six Spanish Women Writers was shortlisted for the Spanish Translation Prize in 2023.
Behind the Frontiers of the Real
This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to chart a fairly clear map of this terrain: reality, the impossible, fear, and language. These four concepts underscore the fundamental issues and problems that articulate any theoretical reflection on the fantastic: its necessary relationship to an idea of the real, its limits, its emotional and psychological effects on the receiver and the transgression of language that is undertaken when attempting to express what is, by definition, inexpressible as it is beyond the realms of the conceivable. By examining such concepts, the book explores multiple perspectives that are clearly interrelated: from literary and comparative theory to linguistics, via philosophy, science and cyberculture.
Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America
The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers’ works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
