See how it can be done? (About ‘Klara and the Sun’)
A novel that explores love, sacrifice, and faith through an Artificial Friend in an ambiguous future, from a minimalist and universal narrative.
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‘The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta’: Vargas Llosa’s ‘other self’
A self-fictional and meta-referential novel that dismantles the total novel, explores the boundaries between chronicle and fiction, and culminates in a surprising ending that redefines Peruvian narrative.
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Lives and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen
The new edition of ‘Life and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen’ reveals her mystical universe as a complex symbolic system interpreted through a contemporary lens.
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Always Susan, Always Sigrid
An intimate portrait of a complex friendship with Susan Sontag. Testimonies of an intense literary life full of contradictions.
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Murakami: Jazz for Dummies
In ‘Jazz Portraits’, Murakami presents a collection of superficial and nostalgic vignettes accompanying portraits by Makoto Wada, without critical ambition or musical depth.
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‘To the Lighthouse’: Essential Desolation
An ambivalent reading of ‘To the Lighthouse’ reveals its hypnotic and devastating power, where inner vision and sensory experience replace conventional plot.
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Verbal Alchemy
A study that explores, with philological and poetic sensitivity, a constellation of spells, rituals, and allegories surrounding ayahuasca, the Baroque, and Indo-African-Amazonian syncretism, articulating poetics, ethnology, and psychoanalysis.
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‘La novela luminosa’: a Mirror Reflecting the Lives of Others
A diary-novel that, with nonchalant brilliance, blends the trivial and the profound, challenging literary conventions while reflecting daily life and the reader’s condition.
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Civitas and the Periphery: Poetry as Urban Cartography
Youre Merino’s ‘Asentamiento en la civilidad’ paints a poetic map of urban resistance, dismantling socialist myths with sharp verses.
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‘Nueve ficciones’: A Topography of Narrative Invention
Carlos Ávila Villamar’s ‘Nueve ficciones’ reads like a map of a non-existent territory, a system of textual exploration that questions the sources of meaning through meticulous prose and constant meta-narrative inquiry.