La terrible cordura del idiota : cuentos de locura y muerte de la literatura universal / César Arístides, selección, prólogo y semblazas ; Céline Ramos, ilustraciones.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377).
Contents:
El corazón revelador / Edgar Allan Poe -- Diario de un loco / Nikolai V. Gógol -- El manuscrito de un loco / Charles Dickens -- Bartleby / Herman Melville -- Bilbiomanía / Gustave Flaubert -- Bobok / Fiodor Dostoievski -- Canibalismo en los vagones del tren / Mark Twain -- El miserere / Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer -- Loco / Guy de Maupassant -- La calavera / Emilia Pardo Bazán -- Mi entierro / Leopoldo Alas Clarín -- El monje negro / Anton Chéjov -- El taipán / William Somerset Maugham -- Cara de luna / Jack London -- El hijo / Horacio Quiroga -- Una obsesión / Bernardo Couto Castillo -- Diario de un loco / Lu Hsun -- Los engranajes / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- La novia robada / Juan Carlos Onetti -- El imitador de voces / Thomas Bernhard -- Yautepec / José Agustín -- Por los caminos de Onán / Mario Enrique Figueroa -- Lilit / Mauricio Molina.
Summary:
Mental illness: horror, delirium, fantasy. This illness as a literary theme in stories where reality is cut into pieces, and the eyes of the sick shine from its darkest place. The Terrible Sanity of the Insane is a collection of unforgettable stories about insanity and its darkest side, its illusions, its highs and its lows. Stories about suicides, parents gone mad, dead women who come back to haunt their lovers, people who have become unstable for their love of books, cannibals with a dark sense of humor, lunatics in cemeteries, and people deranged by eroticism.
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