La memoria de Shakespeare

¿Alguna vez imaginaste tener un encuentro contigo mismo pero más viejo, dentro de un sueño y no saber quién está soñando a quien?, ¿qué pasaría si alguien te pudiera dar como herencia la memoria de Shakespeare? Borges lo relata en dos de las cuatro historias que conforman este pequeño librito.

Un exquisito platillo gourmet, tuve el placer de cenármelo anoche, qué deleite. No he encontrado mejor maestro del cuento que él, en serio. No sé qué me asombra más, los temas que aborda en sus historias, los diálogos que configura o su delicada capacidad de síntesis.

Una vez más entré a la cosmología borgeana, poblada de sueños y dualidades, qué gusto es enfundarme en su piel y mirar de otra forma este mundo. Los golpes de su inteligencia se reciben con gusto. No puedo mas que dar gracias por tanta belleza y cordura.

Museum Of Terror (Tomie 1)

I didn't know that I liked Japanese anime, particularly the genre of terror. Since the day I saw Ghost in the Shell, I knew that I had the potential to become a fan. A couple of weeks ago I was in Harvard Bookshop, in the used books section, where I found a lot of anime books at a good price. One was "Tomie". When I read the first dialog something said to me "this book is for you". The sentence was: "My friend Tomie is dead... pieces of her body were found scattered everywhere..."

I couldn't stop reading the nine stories. All were good, but the ones I liked most were "Photo" and "Painter", with its sarcastic humor.

I recommend Museum of Terror you. It's easy to read while on public transport, it's fun to read in reverse (as a comic book translated from the Japanese, its panels are viewed and read right to left, top to bottom), and it's excellent English practice because the characters speak colloquially.

I am very anxious to read more books like this. I don't know why I didn't buy more. If you have a book like this one, we can trade. ;)