Poetry is Abnormal: Prisoners (Miniature VI)
The link between poetry and madness; boundaries between art, pathology, and the social construction of genius.
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Proustian I
The Proustian bedroom transforms dreams, objects, and memories into intimate architecture where time becomes style.
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Flâneur, Ghost, and Restlessness
Baudelaire, Pessoa, and Benjamin: flâneur, spleen, and ironic criticism as paratexts of modernity and the split self.
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Shadow in front of ‘Shadows of Works’
Reclaiming Octavio Paz’s critical relevance in today’s world, analyzing his views on translation and poetry.
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Presentation and Discovery
New York, Martí, and the Spanish dancer as an aesthetic experience, feminine myth, and spiritual revelation in poetry and film.
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The neo-Zeno, or Achilles and the Tortoise again
Zeno intuited asynchronous and immanent systems; the transcendentalist error arises from forcing linear synchrony in political and fractal reality.
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The LLM and the Sharpness of Meaning
LLMs do not threaten literature through intelligence, but through their ability to multiply mediocrity until meaning becomes invisible.
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K: A Rare and Comical Dread
Kafka’s tragicomic irony as a literary invention, linked to Virgilio Piñera, Baudelaire, and modern European criticism.
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Between Geopolitics and “Imperial Malaise”
Realistic geopolitics, ideological exhaustion, and Spanish American unease in the face of contemporary global power realignments.
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Andrés Trapiello and the Novel of Diary-Writing
Trapiello’s diary writing elevated to a great novel in progress, masterfully blending truth, fiction, literary criticism, and everyday life with narrative skill.