Resultados para "El viaje" en Literatura y ficción

"Historia de los viajes de Escarmentado (Escrita por él mismo)" de Voltaire es una novela satírica que sigue las aventuras de Escarmentado, un noble que emprende una serie de viajes en busca de sabiduría e iluminación. A lo largo de su viaje, Escarmentado se topa con una variedad de personajes y experiencias que exponen los absurdos e hipocresías de la sociedad. Desde encuentros con funcionarios corruptos hasta presenciar las locuras de la guerra y la política, los viajes de Escarmentado brindan comentarios mordaces sobre la condición humana y las deficiencias de la civilización.

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of 19th century America, but to the bewildering sights and sounds of 6th century Camelot. Although confused at first and quickly imprisoned, he soon realizes that his knowledge of the future can transform his fate. Correctly predicting a solar eclipse from inside his prison cell, Morgan terrifies the people of England into releasing him and swiftly establishes himself as the most powerful magician in the land, stronger than Merlin and greatly admired by Arthur himself.

The most incredible thing happened in the most unlikely place. Simon Radcliffe was nothing special. Approaching 40 in a dull middle management job, divorced, depressed, and gaining a beer gut, he was convinced his best days were behind him.

O.J. Simpson in an alternate reality and blind ninjas ushering in the apocalypse are just two of the beautifully written tales in this seminal work of art, from the mind of a human being the likes of which God and the devil wholeheartedly agree upon. While drenched in comedy, Laughter's Cold Shadow takes on the darkest of subject matter: murder, rape, racism, the nuclear family, ninjas, Nazis, zombies, police brutality, drug cartels, hedonism, psychopathy, and more.

After Hank Morgan of Hartford, Connecticut, takes a blow to the head, he inexplicably awakens in sixth-century Camelot. At first lost and confused, the time traveler soon realizes that he can use modern knowledge and his ability to foretell the future to his advantage. Consequently, he is granted a place in the king’s court as Arthur’s right-hand man. When the Catholic Church grows fearful of his power, the Connecticut Yankee aims higher and concocts a grandiose plan to bring American ideals to sixth-century England to change the future.

Hobart, 2022: a city with a declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbor and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA. One day the city’s residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations: a factory whistle. GoFA’s owner, world-famous billionaire Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. He’s going to defeat technology’s dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero: 1948.

When a time agent lets his historically significant student get killed, Josh is the only agent that can take his place. This event is causing the universe to play fast and loose with physics, allowing the sins of the ONLE time agency to haunt them from the past. Will ONLE survive this attack? Can Josh figure out how resurrection works and get the girl? Will Raj find a curry that doesn't leave him running for the toilet? Join the adventures of Josh and the rest of the ONLE time agency to find out.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889) è un celebre romanzo dello scrittore e umorista statunitense Mark Twain. Rappresenta uno dei primi esempi di romanzo basato sul tema del viaggio nel tempo.Di questo romanzo, che alterna momenti toccanti a pezzi di grande umorismo, mai scontati, Mark Twain sembra quasi fare un manifesto dei propri principi e ideali. Apparentemente la civiltà moderna la vince alla lunga sul vecchio mondo, ma….

Si indaga il rapporto tra un oggetto della modernità di come Ulisse, catapultato in questa nostra epoca "per felicitare la dea luminosa, fino a che ella sarà soddisfatta nei suoi capricci" e di nuovo alla ricerca della strada di casa, reagisce di fronte alla scoperta della nostra quotidianità: un computer, un treno, un'automobile, un cellulare, il cinema. Ulisse scrive alla "dolce sposa dalle belle vesti" per tentare di comunicare con lei e trasmetterle il suo sgomento nei confronti di questo mondo così ameno e incomprensibile per lui, dove tutti sembrano fuori di senno.

Si indaga il rapporto tra un oggetto della modernità di come Ulisse, catapultato in questa nostra epoca "per felicitare la dea luminosa, fino a che ella sarà soddisfatta nei suoi capricci" e di nuovo alla ricerca della strada di casa, reagisce di fronte alla scoperta della nostra quotidianità: un computer, un treno, un'automobile, un cellulare, il cinema. Ulisse scrive alla "dolce sposa dalle belle vesti" per tentare di comunicare con lei e trasmetterle il suo sgomento nei confronti di questo mondo così ameno e incomprensibile per lui, dove tutti sembrano fuori di senno.

Si indaga il rapporto tra un oggetto della modernità di come Ulisse, catapultato in questa nostra epoca "per felicitare la dea luminosa, fino a che ella sarà soddisfatta nei suoi capricci" e di nuovo alla ricerca della strada di casa, reagisce di fronte alla scoperta della nostra quotidianità: un computer, un treno, un'automobile, un cellulare, il cinema. Ulisse scrive alla "dolce sposa dalle belle vesti" per tentare di comunicare con lei e trasmetterle il suo sgomento nei confronti di questo mondo così ameno e incomprensibile per lui, dove tutti sembrano fuori di senno.

Si indaga il rapporto tra un oggetto della modernità di come Ulisse, catapultato in questa nostra epoca "per felicitare la dea luminosa, fino a che ella sarà soddisfatta nei suoi capricci" e di nuovo alla ricerca della strada di casa, reagisce di fronte alla scoperta della nostra quotidianità: un computer, un treno, un'automobile, un cellulare, il cinema.

The Journey of Joenes, also published as Journey Beyond Tomorrow, tells the tale of a picaresque journey through an imagined future taken by a naive and innocent man unprepared for the wonders and oddities he encounters. Sheckley examines the present through the distorting lens of a future wonderfully skewed from and yet darkly, hilariously, similar to our own world.

The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. "It's harder than I thought!" he admits. His "Fold-powers" are easier; he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions - always, in his view, with respect and love.

The future has changed, history hasn’t repeated, and she’s running out of time…When living in the past, there’s always the chance the future you once knew will become an unknown … as Beth Apsley is soon to discover.

It is 1613, and William Shakespeare is trying to extinguish a fire at the Globe Theatre. Just as a fiery beam is about to fall on him, he is transported across time and space to Nelson, British Columbia. William quickly accesses his new reality. Slowly, he begins to master 20th-century mannerisms, new speech patterns, and new ways to make a living. He decides his best hope is to become a screenwriter, but first he must deal with his nemesis (and one-time friend), Ben Jonson, who has no taste for the modern world and is convinced he knows a way to return to 17th-century London.

Polly Granger’s life changed the instant she stepped into a London lift. Transported to another realm with two strange men as fellow passengers, she accidentally launches a successful and lucrative career as a dimension-hopping monster slayer. But after five years, a relaxing visit to her luxury Bay Area condo ends abruptly when she sees news footage of a 20-foot-tall extraterrestrial rampaging through British streets...crying her name.

When a man who died eighteen years ago mysteriously appears on his doorstep, Jason knows his past has finally caught up with him. Forty years have elapsed since Jason Apsley grabbed his second chance when time-travelling back to 1976. Apart from those time-travelling calamitous events of a few decades ago, his second life has been pretty good ... until now.

Eighteen years have elapsed since Jason Apsley grabbed his second chance after time traveling forty-two years into the past. It's now 1994, and those time-travelling calamitous years of the late 70s and 80s are now a distant memory. Life is perfect or is it? Jason's worst nightmare becomes a reality when a mysterious letter appears, suggesting his immediate future may not be as rosy as expected. As the chaos ensues, an inquisitive journalist and DCI French close in on the truth about his past. Will time repeat itself, or can Jason, once again, alter the future?

Relive the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s in this witty and gripping time travel series. Evoke the memories and discover the mystery. The impossible dilemma of two identical men from different eras, a mysterious time-shifting event, and a future that holds the consequences of his past mistakes. Courtesy of a random time-shifting event in 1976, Jason Apsley time travelled from 2019 to 1976 and unwittingly displaced ‘other’ Jason, who has no choice but to continue his life forty years in the future.