‘To the Lighthouse’: Essential Desolation
An ambivalent reading of ‘To the Lighthouse’ reveals its hypnotic and devastating power, where inner vision and sensory experience replace conventional plot.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
‘La novela luminosa’: a Mirror Reflecting the Lives of Others
A diary-novel that, with nonchalant brilliance, blends the trivial and the profound, challenging literary conventions while reflecting daily life and the reader’s condition.
Book Reviews
The Letters of the Boom: the Map that Never Was
The Latin American “Boom” was a fiesta of letters and ruptures, where García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and Cortázar wove a tapestry of powerful novels, revelry, and political fallout.
Book Reviews
Three (never mild) surprises
Anne Carson, in The Beauty of the Husband, captivates with a unique voice that explores lost love and hope in loss. Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, in Miami Century Fox, creates vibrant poetry where words from Miami and Cuba collide in a game of Spanglish. Carme López Mercader, in Duelo sin brújula, offers a veiled testimony of mourning for Javier Marías, respecting his privacy.
Loose Pages
Another Possibility for Fiction
Some time ago, a photo of Rimbaud circulated on social media that was not “real.” It had been created using
Essays
Vargas Llosa or the Fate of the Novelist
If everyone is talking about Vargas Llosa, about his legacy, recalling how and when they read his books, and also bringing up his miseries, it is because someone truly important has left us.
Loose Pages
A Venice of Shadows
Venice has been Tintoretto for me. And Tintoretto is the painter of writers, as Mary McCarthy said.