I left in your mailbox ‘Cartas (1920–1941)’
James Joyce’s ‘Cartas (1920–1941)’ reveals a genius caught between literary glory and everyday hardships, with irony and weariness.
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The Bookshelf
The story of an old bookshelf that I filled with adventure books, becoming my refuge of stories and destinations.
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Sketch for a Bibliophile Portrait of José Martí
Martí wrote with what he read. His ever-incomplete library stood as a fugitive writing.
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I left in your mailbox ‘The Voice Behind the Stage’
Mario Praz, a melancholy flâneur, transforms the essay into a disguised autobiography, glossing the foreign as an encrypted self-portrait.
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Market sketch
In Havana in the 1990s and the early 2000s, the book market, limited by censorship and a shortage of foreign editions, revealed a lost and forbidden time, where modern literature struggled to emerge in the face of the dominant ideology.
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The Inscription that Proust (did not) Read
Du Bos writes his dedication to Proust as if Plotinus had written to Plato, more out of metaphysical affinity than material contact.
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Lost Libraries
A personal library begins as an act of passion before becoming a great sacrifice.
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The Sound of Books. Readings, Voices, and Paths
I am indulging in memories. I have returned to the old sugar cane hut where I lived for a few