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Fiction / Short story

How Poe Builds Tension in The Fall of the House of Usher

By Gabriel Montes

A journey through the invisible score with which Poe sustains panic in The Fall of the House of Usher: a rational narrator narrowing the frame, an architecture that foretells its end, a tempo that turns waiting into fear, and a choreography of echoes and silences that makes the collapse inevitable.

13 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Novella

The Architecture of The Metamorphosis: How Kafka Builds the Monster

By Gabriel Montes

The architecture of The Metamorphosis: three acts, thresholds and repetitions narrowing choices to the end, with Grete and the household as engines of change under debt and shame.

12 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Novelette / Novella / Short story

Franz Kafka: between minimal life and overflowing literature

By Gabriel Montes

Franz Kafka lived a quiet, constrained life yet left behind a body of work that exposed the absurd and fragile condition of modern existence.

5 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Novella

The Metamorphosis: Psychological analysis of Gregor Samsa

By Oriol Puig

An exploration of the emotions, fears and inner transformations experienced by Gregor Samsa after his unexpected metamorphosis. A reading that unpacks the anxiety, guilt and isolation running through Kafka’s work.

12 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition

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Fiction / Flash fiction / Novel / Novelette / Novella / Short story

Tension without dialogue: how to carry drama with gestures and pauses

By Marina Torres

How to sustain tension and drama through gestures, pauses and actions. Silence shifts meaning into subtext and onstage choreography. Rhythm, objects and space become tools to tell without saying.

14 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition

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Fiction / Flash fiction / Novel / Novelette / Novella / Short story

Circular narrative: returning to the starting point with elegance

By Marina Torres

Learn how to craft stories that return to their starting point without relying on cheap tricks. A well-built circular ending offers rhythm, coherence and emotional depth. The key lies in planting early details that bloom upon return.

14 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition

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Fiction / Novel

The eternal duel between James Joyce and Virginia Woolf for the soul of the modern novel

By Gabriel Montes

A journey through the contrasting visions of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, two authors who revolutionised the portrayal of consciousness and forever transformed the modernist novel.

10 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition

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Fiction / Flash fiction / Novel / Novelette / Novella / Short story

How to Create Characters That Feel Alive

By Marina Torres

A journey into the craft of turning observation and voice into tools for building vivid characters and believable motivations, from the small gestures that reveal emotion to dialogue that burns with authenticity and choices that truly matter.

10 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition