Citario of La Habana
Havana cited as a fragmented city: violence, ruin, desire, memory, politics, verbal survival.
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Citario Carpentier
Different voices reread, debate, or reassess the great Cuban novelist, the possessor of a deeply contradictory personality—perhaps more so than many are willing to admit.
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Citario Lezama
Various outside voices have sought to read, discuss, or surround him, and in doing so have constructed an indirect portrait: Lezama seen through the sum of his echoes, controversies, and dazzling moments.
Inquisitions
‘Exile is Autism.’ Conversation with Carlos A. Aguilera
A reflection on Cuban exile as autism, literary resistance through the dismantling and fragmentation of a diasporic literature without a centre or possible union.
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Citario Conrad
Critical perspectives that explore the ethics, moral enigma and poetics of travel in the work of the great Polish-British writer.
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Citario Dostoevsky
On the anniversary of the birth of the great Russian writer, these quotes evoke the author who, like a modern Dante, transformed the destiny of literature in the century of the novel par excellence.
Inquisitions
Efraín Rodríguez Santana: “My novel delves into the inner workings of that entity with absolute powers”
‘Mi último viaje en Lada’ pursues a truth that can never be captured, as if crime and literature were, at heart, versions of the same unfinished fable.
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Citario of Paris 2
From Simone de Beauvoir to Néstor Perlongher, another evocation of the most literary and bookish city, which is itself writing and an image of the times.
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Citario Nietzsche
On the anniversary of Friedrich Nietzsche’s birth, this citarium evokes his idol-shattering hammer, the lion that gives birth to the child, and the eternal return.
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Citario of Paris
From Voltaire to Compagnon, an evocation of the most literary and bookish city, which is itself writing and an image of the times.