Lezama Looks at El Greco
Lezama sees El Greco as a Baroque painter who fused Venetian and Castilian styles, transcending into modernity.
Essays
Essays
The Thomas Browne Case
An exploration of Sir Thomas Browne’s funerary scholarship and his symbolic legacy, through Borges, Sebald, and Calasso.
Essays
On this Journey Toward Death
In Baquero’s work, death is a constant presence and a central theme that fuels the imagination as a form of resistance against oblivion.
Essays
Quiroga, Always Looking at Death
Horacio Quiroga’s literary work reflects his tragic life, in which death, madness, and the jungle are intertwined as central themes.
Essays
Juan Rulfo, Imagining Reality
A general overview of one of the precursors of the Latin American boom, who revolutionized literature by blending rural reality and fantasy.
Essays
Sartre’s Tintoretto, Bolder than Venice
In an existential interpretation, Sartre presents Tintoretto as a bold and ambitious painter, inseparable from the city of Venice.
Essays
A Devil Named Ambrose Bierce
An approach to a master of cynicism who reinvented horror and biting satire.
Inquisitions
Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Daniel Céspedes Góngora
A variation on the “Proust Questionnaire.” For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social skills.
Essays
Turner: the Glow and the Man
Mike Leigh’s ‘Mr. Turner’ explores the complex personality and final stage of the painter J.M.W. Turner, balancing his artistic genius with his human side and the cinematic recreation of his work.
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Venerable images: 60 years after ‘Les Choses’
In ‘Things’, Georges Perec creates a domestic utopia for a young couple, a refuge of books and dreams in a world of unattainable aspirations.