The Country That Is Not Yet: Jorge Mañach, One Hundred Years After a Crisis
Jorge Mañach’s intellectual relevance in the face of the Cuban nation’s crisis and official ostracism.
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On ‘Leonora’ by Reinhard Huamán Mori
Originality, romantic nihilism, and poetry as salvation in the face of family, a hostile world, and contemporary existential precariousness.
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Perverting Reality
‘Malincuor’ confirms a fragmentary poetics where memory, imagination, and language pervert reality to make it more true.
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Dante as Seen by Boccaccio
A seminal work in which Boccaccio constructs a critical and moral biography of Dante, articulating homage, literary history, and humanism.
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Reading to Feel: Breath, Memory, and Joan Didion’s ‘Notes to John’
We read not to remember, but to feel: to remain suspended in that intimate proof that something—whether in the writer or the reader—is still breathing.
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Notes on a Healing
A literary procedure of healing that transforms pain and illness into poetic art, documenting the intimate experience of body and mind.
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‘Wuthering Heights’: Passion and Storm
A romantic classic that explores destructive passions, revenge, and obsession between Catherine and Heathcliff in the Yorkshire moors.
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Novelizing the Great Felo Ramírez: a Daring Biographical Exercise
‘Y la noche doblaba por tercera’: a daring fictionalized biography of Cuban baseball narrator Felo Ramírez, where reality and fiction merge.
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‘Malincuor’, or How I Learned Not to Forget While Reading Medo
Medo’s ‘Malincuor’ is a dense and playful book that blends family post-memory with European history in a metaphorical train journey, using humour, irony and kaleidoscopic language to create an active and lively read.
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Mañach, a Philosophy at 76 Degrees Fahrenheit
¿Una verdadera patria? commemorates and reexamines the relevance of Jorge Mañach’s 1925 cultural critique, bringing together essays and documents that contrast that intellectual republic with the ruin of the present.