Resonances of the Fragmented Violin
A nineteenth-century novel that, with introspective prose, criticizes the commodification of art via an obsession with a symbolic violin.
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Three Escapes
Three literary works that explore misery, memory, and grief with intense, poetic, and reflective narrative styles.
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What Is the Price of an Ideal?
Legrá’s ‘The Price of an Ideal’ shows how tyranny turns ideals into suffering and silence.
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About ‘Venecia inactual’
A literary mosaic that explores Venice through its layers of time and memory.
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Making Kolkhoz for the Last Time
A book that intertwines family grief, Georgian memory, and historical reflection on war and the decline of civilization.
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The Piercing Gaze of Damaris Betancourt
A book of photographs reveals the harsh reality of patients at the psychiatric hospital in Havana, known as Mazorra.
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Focillon, Forms, Lezama
The enduring influence of Focillon’s essay on the poetics and literary theory of José Lezama Lima, where artistic forms are living and timeless entities, with echoes in the Baroque and creative intuition.
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The Library in Flames
A book about a library fire opens this reflection on the transformation and challenges of public libraries.
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‘Mouchette’: Against all interpretation
A short and radical novel about the last days of a teenager excluded from a hostile rural environment, with prose devoid of psychology, focused on the meticulous description of inevitable events.
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Cuba and Spain, between Love, War, and Oblivion
Cuban and Cuban-Spanish literature has narrated the wars of independence with gaps and reinterpretations, while Uva de Aragón offers an intimate view that weaves together love, memory, and history.