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Extraños crímenes asolan la ciudad de Barcelona. Un asesino en serie pone en jaque a la policía matando a sus víctimas en los principales monumentos de la ciudad. El turismo empieza a resentirse y la situación es grave. Un inspector pide la ayuda de un viejo amigo, el comisario jefe de Cornellà. Se forma un variopinto equipo de investigación y se inicia la caza del asesino; pero deben darse prisa
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"It's a lot easier just not to write." So argues Josefina Vicens' alter ego, Jose Garcfa, in The Empty Book. Yet his need to write exists independently of his perception that an "ordinary" person has "nothing to say." In the very act of writing about "nothing," Garcia paradoxically tells a story that does have meaning and significance--the story of his own attempt to transcend the limits of mundane existence through creative work.Winner of the prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia prize, The Empty Book was first published in Mexico as El libro vacfo in 1958. A novel about the writing process, it stands as a forerunner of the metafiction boom of the 1960s that included the works of such writers as ...
Després de la guerra civil, entre els anys 1939 i 1945, més de cinc-centes persones van ser condemnades a la pena de mort pel tribunal militar que actuava a Girona. L’accés a la documentació de l’arxiu judicial, complementat amb altres fonts, ha permès a l’autor resseguir detalladament quatre casos representatius d’aquella justícia sumaríssima, entre els quals un capellà i un fejocista gironins.