José Prats Sariol, autor en Bookish & Company

Caustic Notes on Cuban Literature in 2026

Artistic quality versus nationalism, relativism, opportunism, and the fraudulent use of technology.

Old age, brushed by the vertigo of death, finds in literary memory a way of postponing the abyss.

Expectation can also be a minor form of disenchantment.

Cuban literature persists wherever the book still finds readers, catalogues, risks, and editorial hospitality.

Analysis of Mark Lilla’s reactionary thought and its relevance to the ongoing Cuban crisis.

An essayistic, wandering, and lucid collage that combines erudition, irony, memory, and freedom without hierarchies.

Reclaiming Octavio Paz’s critical relevance in today’s world, analyzing his views on translation and poetry.

Canetti’s antipathy towards T. S. Eliot based on aesthetic, religious and personal differences.

A mentor dissuades an aspiring poet from writing, extolling Lorca and reading with AI as a superior alternative to creative vanity.

Schönberg and Canetti extol lateral thinking as a creative path against illusory linear progress in art, humanities, and AI.