La oscuridad de la noche

En octubre de 1918 un joven oficial del ejército imperial, el austriaco Herbert Menis, se reincorpora a filas tras un breve periodo de convalecencia. A su llegada a Belgrado, donde ha sido destinado, se enamora de Resa Lang, una joven dama de la corte de María Antonia de Austria, y decide conquistarla. Su romance se desarrollará en un ambiente lleno de contrastes: los fastos de la corte y los regimientos austrohúngaros frente a la crudeza y las privaciones de la guerra; la unidad de los oficiales frente a las disensiones en la tropa. Los protagonistas de la historia parecen estar fuera...

In the tradition of the Mexican masters Rosario Castellanos or Juan Rulfo, Rose Mary Salum creates an aura of fantasy that goes beyond the mere narration of telling a story. It submerges the reader into a dream/like experience without disconnecting itself from a magical plot of realities that will ultimately take you to experience the universal emotions of love, death and life.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

La novela de culto de Ricardo Piglia, una obra que lo reafirma como uno de los grandes de la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea.