‘La invención de todas las cosas’: Much Ado about Nothing
A book that fails on every level: in its conception, composition, and structure, but also in the prose itself.
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German Beauties: About ‘Bestiario búlgaro’
A book of poems by Mario Arteca, notable for its poetic and artistic merit, as well as its profound reflection on social and political decline.
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Getting to the Truth through Pain
‘Boys in Zinc’ by Svetlana Alexievich: a book that explores the trauma of the war in Afghanistan through testimonies and the idea that truth cannot be achieved without going through pain.
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Avant-garde + Rearguard ≠ Complementarity
An analysis of contemporary art, proposing a rearguard where survival, the ephemeral, and technology redefine art and its ontology.
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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.