A Brief Stroll (with RB) Along the Edges of Language
Irony in Barthes, that method of destabilizing the certainties of language, criticism, and discourse.
Essays
Book Reviews
‘Sinalectas’: Verbal Artifact for Viewing
A poetic laboratory where word and image confront and balance each other to distill perception, eliminating ornamentation until only the tension between the visible and its void remains.
Essays
Lampedusa, Visconti, Netflix: Anatomy of a Betrayal
A “betrayal” of the melancholic decadence of Lampedusa’s novel.
Book Reviews
About ‘Venecia inactual’
A literary mosaic that explores Venice through its layers of time and memory.
Essays
Lines of Alamar: ‘El Contragolpe’, Reading Notes
With a prosody of rubble, Juan Carlos Flores turned the horizontality of collapse into the only possible place to found an epic.
Essays
Russia or the Novel as Destiny
The Russian novel, where history and reality merge into symbolic narrative.
Bouquiphiles
Prose from the Wunderkammer I: Avant-Dire
Book collecting is an intimate and symbolic practice which, by valuing each book as a unique object with its own material biography, turns the library into a sensory autobiography of the collector.
Essays
Proust’s Clock: Madeleines and Nebulae
In À la recherche, where involuntary memory creates a narrative cosmos where past and present coexist, does Proust merge the times of Einstein and Bergson?
Bouquiphiles
Sketch for a Bibliophile Portrait of José Martí
Martí wrote with what he read. His ever-incomplete library stood as a fugitive writing.