Uses of Time

Author: Lluís Ferran de Pol
Subject: Social classes - youth
Barcelona: Angle, 2008Symbolic space and time of social conflicts. The 20 years recreated by the hand of an unjustly forgotten author.

Author: Gioconda Belli
Subject: Gender
Barcelona: La Otra Orilla, 2010
Tale about a world one only lives women. The latest novel by the Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, a reference in gender literature.

Author: Assia Djebar
Subject: Gender
Lleida: Pagès, 2002A counterpoint to Virginia Woolf's classic, and a portrait of a time and a country where women are far from having their own space.

Author: Virginia Woolf
Subject: Gender 
Madrid: Alianza, 2003
Great classic by Virgina Woolf in which she claims a space and time for women.

Author: Umberto Saba
Subject: Youth
Barcelona: La Magrana, 1987
Magrana 1995
The author from Trieste left us a magnificent portrait of the contradictions of adolescence in the figure of the protagonist Ernesto of the novel.

Author: Mohamed Xukri
Subject: Social classes - Childhood
Alzira: Bromera, 2000
The harsh daily mood of a child in Tangier. Literature naked and direct that exerts the effect of a punch.

Author: Giani Stuparich
Subject: Work - Old Age
Barcelona: Minúscula, 2010
Wonderful portrait of old age and the dignity of man before death.

Author: Julio Llamazares
Subject: Rural areas - Old age
Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1998
Chronicle of the disappearance of a village of Leon that will be submerged under the waters of a swamp and at the same time chronicles the disappearance of its last settler.

Author: Philip Roth
Subjects: Cares - Old Age
Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2004Novel who bets on self-affirmation to narrate the process of terminal illness of the narrator's father. As almost always an exceptional Roth.