The Country That Is Not Yet: Jorge Mañach, One Hundred Years After a Crisis
Jorge Mañach’s intellectual relevance in the face of the Cuban nation’s crisis and official ostracism.
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Essays
Cartographies of the Body: Visual Territories
Ivonne Ferrer explores the body as hybrid cartography, ontological provocation, and resistance to the ephemeral.
Essays
Castles of Shadows
Joel Núñez’s refined abstraction in ‘Codified Reality’ contrasts with his tormented and grotesque expressionist period.
Essays
Ontological Relics
Lisyanet Rodríguez’s work transforms memory and pain into an ontological exploration of humanity, where painting is a form of resistance against forgetting.
Essays
László Krasznahorkai: Between Beauty, Ruin, and Deep Obsession
Krasznahorkai’s trance-like, apocalyptic prose transforms collapse into a spiritual aesthetics that bridges Western ruin and Eastern contemplation—while risking a slide from lucidity into resigned nihilism.
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What Is the Price of an Ideal?
Legrá’s ‘The Price of an Ideal’ shows how tyranny turns ideals into suffering and silence.
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‘La costurera de Chanel’ or the Sinuous Disintegration
Wendy Guerra’s latest novel marks a departure from the ontological depth and political urgency of her earlier work, embracing a cinematic surface where memory, exile, and identity risk dissolving into aesthetic gesture.
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Byung-Chul Han, Fatigue and the Illusion of Freedom
A book that diagnoses a late modern society where the illusion of freedom and excessive positivity generate self-exploitation, depression, and a loss of contemplative capacity, without offering any refreshing alternatives.
Book Reviews
Avant-garde + Rearguard ≠ Complementarity
An analysis of contemporary art, proposing a rearguard where survival, the ephemeral, and technology redefine art and its ontology.