Contes i relats

A Abacus disposem d'una àmplia selecció de contes complets i de relats curts i llargs per a adults. Navega entre una gran varietat de gèneres com: poesia, narrativa, ciència-ficció i de suspens i por, entre altres.

This is salvaged
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Vara, Vauhini

Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise above the drunken mess of her own life to become a loving aunt. One sister consumes the ashes of another. And, in the title story, an experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project yet: constructing a life-size ark according to the Bible's specifications.In a world defined by estrangement, where is communion to be found? The characters in This Is Salvaged, unmoored in turbulence, are searching fervently for meaning, through one another.
19,25€ 18,29€
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Sebastián en la laguna
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Serrano, José Luis

«Aquel verano vi mi primer muerto, morado, hinchado, guapo aún, con los rizos revueltos. Ahogado en la laguna, aunque quizás estaba ya muerto cuando se puso de pie. Muerto antes que ahogado, esto decían los del pueblo. Yo lo sigo viendo muchas noches, hermoso, amoratado y frío. Fosforescente. Por las algas, supongo. Con el pelo apelmazado por los coágulos de sangre ya medio seca. Tumbado boca arriba con los brazos extendidos. La boca semiabierta y los ojos cerrados. Rígido como los álamos en invierno.
18,95€ 18,00€
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Obsessió i altres contes
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Al nen li agraden molt els trens des de ben petit, potser pel fet de viure arran de l'estació, amb les vies com a horitzó del poble. La mare, però, no acaba d'estar convençuda de tanta dèria pels trens, i s'esforça per posar-hi remei, malgrat que hi cap l
11,50€ 10,92€
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Bibliotecas imposibles
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Las bibliotecas imposibles es un homenaje a las bibliotecas fantásticas, esas que, desde la Biblioteca de Babel de Borges hasta la Biblioteca Imperial de Asimov, a su vez son contenidas en nuestras bibliotecas reales. Este volumen es la respuesta de una selección de narradores en lengua castellana al desafío de concebir una biblioteca fantástica, imposible desde el punto de vista de las leyes de la naturaleza, pero posible bajo los dominios de la imaginación.
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Relatos de misterio
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You like it darker
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King, Stephen

You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary daytoday life behind', and in You Like it Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again. 'Two Talented Bastids' explores the longhidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance with major strings attached. In 'The Dreamers', a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful. King's ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.'
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La paloma colombina
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Alústiza, Hervé

En ''La paloma Colombina'' descubrimos cerca de Belén que los niños juegan felices hasta que un día el cielo se llena de fuego. Tienen que huir a esconderse, asustados. Pero se encontrarán con Colombina, una simpática paloma que logrará sacarlos del apuro. Con ella vivirán peripecias, volverán a cantar, seguirán a una estrella, conocerán a tres Magos. ¿Lograrán llegar a un portal donde acaba de nacer el Niño que trae la paz?
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Writers
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Gifford, Barry

In Writers, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human, which is to say at their worst: they are liars, frauds, lousy lovers, and drunks.This is a world in which Ernest Hemingway drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba, Marcel Proust implores the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed, and Albert Camus converses with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room.In Gifford's house of mirrors, we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. These stories, meant to be performed as plays, are tender and thoughtful exercises in empathy. Obsessions loom large, especially a preoccupation with death. Gifford asks: What does it mean to devote oneself entirely to art? And as an artist, what defines failure, or success?This new edition of Writers includes five new pieces, featuring Georges Simenon with André Gide, Franz Kafka with Marcel Proust, Flannery O’Connor with William Burroughs, Ivan Turgenev with Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joseph Conrad with D.H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather with Gypsy Rose Lee.
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Compra contes i relats online

En aquesta secció trobaràs la millor i més variada col·lecció de contes i relats curts i llargs propis de la literatura clàssica estrangera, com ara l'anglesa, entre altres, però també en trobaràs d'espanyola i catalana per a adults.

Alguns dels títols que es recullen aquí són: Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer, El pícaro hablador, Orgull i Prejudici, així com lectures sobre la vida i obres d'escriptors reconeguts com Agatha Christie, Antonio Machado i Stephen King, entre altres.