Today we bring you the eighth proposal in this series of 13 dystopias to be studied in history books, a work initially published in installments in the early 1950s in the journal Galaxy Science Fiction. Within the framework of this series, it has two peculiarities that differentiate it from the previous recommendations, since it is the first work written by […]
We reach the equator of this new series of 13 Dystopias that will be studied in history books with an essential work of the dystopian novel (although its title seems to suggest that it has no place in this series of undesirable corrupted utopias). A work that knew how to present, like few others, and in a tremendously graphic way, […]
The work selected for this new installment of the series 13 Dystopias that will be studied in history books is, in addition to being one of the most recognized novels of the dystopian genre (and as such, a jewel of contemporary literature), a painstaking study on the nature of totalitarianisms. A text that, like so many of those proposed in […]
The fifth proposal in this series of 13 Dystopias that will be studied in history books is none other than one of the forerunners of cyberpunk. A text worthy of the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award and the Philip K. Dick Award, which acknowledges it as one of the best science fiction novels published in the USA: Neuromancer, by William […]
Little remains to be said about the fourth proposal in this series of 13 Dystopias to be studied in history books, a classic among the classics of the dystopian genre. It is a work that revolves around an idea maintained by many authorities throughout history: that books are dangerous because, as a tool that allows us to expand critical awareness, […]
The third proposal in the series 13 Dystopias that will be studied in history books is a work that, for several years, has been on everyone’s lips, due to its successful adaptation to the audiovisual format. But before being a television fiction acclaimed by critics and audiences, the story to which we refer today (which was also adapted to cinema […]
The second proposal in the series 13 Dystopias that will be studied in history books is clearly an ecological and anti-colonial background work. There are many topics covered in its pages, and many lines of thought that influence them, although the argument could be summarized as the eternal struggle between a fictional colonized civilization (peaceful and respectful of nature), and […]
Today we inaugurate a new series of literary proposals that, within the framework of 13 Editora, are of special interest. The idea behind 13 books that changed history was to recognize the important social impact of the 13 proposed works. Those books raises awareness towards the problems of the time in which they were written, while formulating specific alternatives that […]
There is little left to say about the brilliant Irish essayist, playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde, author of classics of universal literature such as The Ghost of Canterville, De Profundis, The Importance of Being Earnest or The Picture of Dorian Gray. There is, however, one aspect of his life as an intellectual that is somewhat lesser-known: the facet referring […]
Every May 17, since 1963, Galicia celebrates the festival of its literature and its mother tongue, the ‘Día das Letras Galegas’ (Galician Literature Day). There have already been 57 years of tribute to the great exponents of our language, from Rosalía de Castro to Antón Fraguas, Castelao, Cabanillas, Otero Pedrayo, Celso Emilio, María Mariño or María Victoria Moreno Márquez, among […]