Identity and Body Transplantation. A Reading of ‘The Hands of Orlac’
When the body becomes alien and science breaks down identity.
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The Caribbean in Pieces: Listening to Condé, Reading Chassol
Resonances between Chassol’s music and Condé’s novel.
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‘The Pentamerone’, or Excess as Form
A major Baroque work that transforms folk tales into a stylistic laboratory of formal exuberance, narrative impurity, and a fusion of the grotesque and the sublime.
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Episodes of Ink and Inkwell
The ink hummingbird as a central metaphor for writing, creative flight, and mythological connections in Federico de la Vega’s work ‘Noche cerrada’.
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Marie-Luise Scherer: a Discovery I Celebrate
Marie-Louise Scherer’s ‘The Beast of Paris and Other Stories’ blends true crime with other cultural themes, all told in a defiant and lyrical prose style.
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Byung-Chul Han, Fatigue and the Illusion of Freedom
A book that diagnoses a late modern society where the illusion of freedom and excessive positivity generate self-exploitation, depression, and a loss of contemplative capacity, without offering any refreshing alternatives.
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‘Labyrinth of Fortune’: An Architecture of Power
The poem represents one of the most systematic attempts in pre-Renaissance Castilian literature to construct a cultured poetic language, of Latin descent, suitable for allegorical and moralizing expression.
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‘The Leopard’ or a Certain Predilection
Despite initial rejection, this is a novel that endures as a masterful elegy to a lost world, whose narrative force continues to withstand the test of time and misreadings.
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Suzanne Jill Levine, ‘Unfaithful: a Translator’s Memoir’
The death of Vargas Llosa marks the end of the Latin American boom, while Suzanne Levine’s ‘Unfaithful’ recounts her key role in its translation and personal transformation.
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‘Hilarotragoedia’: Rhetoric of Descent
A book that marked the radical debut of Manganelli, who turned an allegorical descent into an exploration of language, with self-referential and philosophical prose that subverted traditional narrative.