Three Escapes
Three literary works that explore misery, memory, and grief with intense, poetic, and reflective narrative styles.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
The Library in Flames
A book about a library fire opens this reflection on the transformation and challenges of public libraries.
Bouquiphiles
From ‘Clyde Fans’ to ‘Goodbye, my Havana’. Notes from a graphic novel reader
A vindication of the adult graphic novel, from Seth to Bechdel, criticizing didacticism and celebrating visual narrative eloquence.
Book Reviews
‘El ruido de los libros’: Writing and Scars
A book by Luis Felipe Rojas that intertwines memory, resistance, and literature, from his youth in Cuba to his exile, marked by scars and a passion for books.
Bouquiphiles
The Teaching Methods of Booktubers
The booktuber’s teaching style reveals the tension between superficial promotion of reading and the depth of complex novels in the digital age.
Bouquiphiles
Fascination with the Abyss. Notes on the Act of Reading II (Final)
The library is a refuge for unfulfilled desires, renewed readings, and losses due to exile, intertwining literary ambition, writerly vanity, and cultural fragility.
Bouquiphiles
Fascination with the Abyss. Notes on the Act of Reading I
The library, that labyrinth of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, reflects the insatiable curiosity and chaotic order of a life devoted to reading.
Book Reviews
‘The Leopard’ or a Certain Predilection
Despite initial rejection, this is a novel that endures as a masterful elegy to a lost world, whose narrative force continues to withstand the test of time and misreadings.
Book Reviews
Getting to the Truth through Pain
‘Boys in Zinc’ by Svetlana Alexievich: a book that explores the trauma of the war in Afghanistan through testimonies and the idea that truth cannot be achieved without going through pain.
Inquisitions
Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Michael H. Miranda
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.