Claro Boeken

«LA GENTE SEGUÍA RECIBIENDO HERIDAS DE BALA Y MURIENDO, COMO SIEMPRE, AUNQUE NO SIEMPRE POR ESE ORDEN». En un mundo que cambia a la velocidad de un juego de realidad virtual, un simple policía de a pie debe lidiar con todas las formas de violencia imaginables que produce una sociedad entregada a los excesos más variados: robots de reparto que se enfrentan a peatones, proveedores de drogas y drones ejecutores de presuntos terroristas. ¿Hay espacio para las emociones humanas en un universo tan tóxico... que se parece demasiado al nuestro? Un policía capaz de empatizar con estas circunstancias ¿no se convertirá en un peligro para el funcionamiento del sistema? A medio camino entre el relato de género y la distopía urbana, Street Cop sitúa la condición humana en el centro de una investigación policial insólita. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Is there room for human emotions in this toxic universe... that looks too much like ours? Robert Coover's detective novelette, STREET COP, is set in a dystopian world of infectious "living dead," murderous robo-cops, aging street walkers, and walking streets. With drawings by Art Spiegelman, this short tale scrutinizes the arc of the American myth, exploring the working of memory in a digital world, police violence and the future of urban life. STREET COP is provocative and prophetic, asking us to interrogate the line between a condemnable system and a sympathetic individual.

Vincent Spinetti is an archetypal tortured artist ? a sensitive young writer who falls victim to alienation, parental neglect, poverty, depression, alcoholism, illness, nervous breakdowns, and unrequited love. He is painfully unaware that these torments are due to the secret manipulations of New Renaissance, an experimental organization that is testing the age-old idea that art results from suffering. Since culture is so significantly influenced by music, movies, and television, New Renaissance hopes to improve the mindless mainstream by raising writers who emphasize artistic quality over commerce. As part of its top-secret sub-project, New Renaissance hires reluctant ex-musician Harlan Eiffler to manipulate its most promising prodigy, Vincent. Wickedly antisocial and deeply disgusted by what passes for entertainment in the twenty-first century, Harlan clandestinely pulls the strings so that Vincent remains a true artist. All the while, he poses as Vincent's manager, simultaneously nurturing his prolific career and torturing his soul.

When Dennis is 13, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. He is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and power; their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. In his work, Dennis Cooper explores the dividing line between the body and the spirit. His first book Frisk is a novel about the power of fantasy and faith, about the ecstasy of being human. It is a work of unflinching honesty that refuses to allow the reader a vicarious, passive role in mapping out the relationship between desire, pornography and violence.

1584. Le prêtre de Belamar de la Sierra, un petit village d'Aragon à la frontière avec la France, est assassiné, son église profanée. Sur les murs : des inscriptions en arabe. Est-ce l'oeuvre de celui qui se fait appeler le Rédempteur, dont tout le monde ignore l'identité, et qui a promis l'extermination de tous les chrétiens, avec la même violence que celle exercée sur les musulmans ? La plupart des habitants de la région sont en effet des morisques, convertis de force au catholicisme, et qui pratiquent encore l'islam en secret. A la veille d'une visite royale, Bernardo de Mendoza, magistrat à Valladolid, soldat et humaniste, issu d'une famille juive, est chargé de l'enquête. Très vite, les tensions s'exacerbent entre les communautés, une véritable guerre de religion se profile. Et les meurtres continuent, toujours aussi inexplicables. Entre l'Inquisition et les extrémistes morisques et chrétiens, la tâche de Mendoza va se révéler ardue. Historien et spécialiste des religions, Matthew Carr nous transporte dans un XVIe siècle d'un réalisme époustouflant. Sa connaissance des moeurs de l'époque, son sens de l'intrigue, son empathie pour ses personnages, font de ce plaidoyer pour la liberté une oeuvre inoubliable.