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Fantômas and the Invention of Modern Crime

Fantômas and the tradition of the modern supervillain, with his endless seriality and urban crime aesthetic.

An essayistic, wandering, and lucid collage that combines erudition, irony, memory, and freedom without hierarchies.

February 12, 2026 / Augusto Munaro

Fragmentary stories explore Sicily as closed moral system, invisible power, and enduring critical lucidity.

The editorial return of Hermeticism, a mystical philosophy that links man with God and the cosmos.

February 4, 2026 / Tania Favela

Maurizio Medo’s poetic writing as a loving transition between memory, languages, migration, and a reverberating present.

Leopardi as a melancholic laboratory: remembered love, youthful lucidity, and classical prose.

Jorge Mañach’s intellectual relevance in the face of the Cuban nation’s crisis and official ostracism.

Originality, romantic nihilism, and poetry as salvation in the face of family, a hostile world, and contemporary existential precariousness.

‘Malincuor’ confirms a fragmentary poetics where memory, imagination, and language pervert reality to make it more true.

A seminal work in which Boccaccio constructs a critical and moral biography of Dante, articulating homage, literary history, and humanism.