Carlos A. Aguilera

Havana, 1970. Narrator, essayist, poet. From 1997 to 2002, he was co-director of the literary and political magazine Diáspora(s). In 1995, he won the David Prize for Poetry in Havana; in 2007, he received the ICORN Grant at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany; and in 2015, he was awarded the Cintas Grant in Miami. Some of his published books include ‘Teoría del alma china‘ (novel, 2006), ‘Discurso de la madre muerta‘ (play, 2012), ‘El imperio Oblómov‘ (novel, 2014), ‘Matadero seis‘ (novella, 2016), ‘Archivo y terror. Operaciones entre literatura, política, teatro y arte‘ (2019), and Clausewitz y yo‘ (novella, 2021). He currently directs the inCUBAdora platform and the FluXus art collection for the Rialta publishing house.

Essays

Unica Zürn: La Poupée

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Through submission, pain, and her fantasy of becoming a “hen,” Unica Zürn (along with Hans Bellmer) challenged conventional notions of being by exploring obscenity and animality in her life and work.

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