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Sentados frente a sendas pantallas de ordenador, ocho jóvenes intentan comunicarse entre sí. Con el ir y venir de los mensajes, surge la sospecha de que alguien, alguna fuerza oculta, manipula las misivas y distorsiona los contenidos, provocando una enorme confusion que les impide conocer su verdadera identidad. Confinados en un espacio fisico limitado, los jovenes parecen victimas de un laberinto cibernetico donde es casi imposible distinguir entre la realidad y su representacion virtual. Bajo el asedio de Asterisco, un personaje misterioso cuyo yelmo con cuernos de toro es una suerte de maquina productora de realidades, los jovenes se debaten para volver al mundo real. Viktor Pelevin, el escritor mas irreverente, audaz y leido de la literatura rusa poscomunista, convierte la red en un laberinto posmoderno, una metafora sobre la vida y sus dilemas, embarcando al lector en un viaje delirante, impregnado de humor surrealista.

Tolstoy's great novel, one of his last works of fiction, tells the story of a harmless flirtation that gradually develops into a destructive passion: the love affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. Anna turns to Vronsky, a dashing military man, as a refuge from her passionless marriage to a pompous, chilly bureaucrat--a move that results in social ostracization, the loss of her position in the world, and the relentless self-doubt that destroys her confidence and leads to her sad end. A parallel plot follows the contrasting fortunes of Levin (Tolstoy's alter ego, with his deep love of the land) and Kitty, whose marriage thrives and prospers because of mutual commitment, sympathy, and respect. In ANNA KARENINA, Tolstoy reaches deep into his own experiences and his observations of family and friends to create a picture of Russian society that reaches from the high life in St. Petersburg and Moscow to the idyllic rural existence of Kitty and Levin. Sketched on a smaller canvas than the vast panorama of WAR AND PEACE, ANNA KARENINA is a profound examination of human psychology. At its heart is its heroine, the flawed, vulnerable, lovable Anna--a woman whom Tolstoy never judges adversely, despite her follies, but whom he views with compassionate understanding throughout. Published two decades after Flaubert's groundbreaking MADAME BOVARY, Tolstoy's novel is a further exploration of adultery and its effects not only on individuals but on the society at large. Vladimir Nabokov called it "one of the greatest love stories in world literature," a view that has been echoed by critics since its publication in the 1870s.

Novela que ha suscitado el entusiasmo de millares de lectores desde su primera publicación,EL MAESTRO Y MARGARITA no sólo es una sátira genial de la sociedad soviética, con su población hambrienta, sus burocratas estupidos, sus aterrados funcionarios y sus corruptos artistas. Acompañado de una extravagante corte, el diablo llega a Moscu e irrumpe en sus mediocres vidas desencadenando toda una serie de peripecias trepidantes y disparatadas que radiografian las debilidades de la naturaleza humana.