Reason in Chivalry
Cuban literature and art, from Martí and De la Cruz to later representations of the 1959 Revolution, have constructed a romantic and heroic image of revolutionary warfare.
Essays
Essays
Essays
Turner: the Glow and the Man
Mike Leigh’s ‘Mr. Turner’ explores the complex personality and final stage of the painter J.M.W. Turner, balancing his artistic genius with his human side and the cinematic recreation of his work.
Essays
José Enrique Rodó, Sculptural and Steadfast
José Enrique Rodó, a giant for his elegant prose and quixotic stature, embodied an aesthetic Platonism that distanced him from reality, marking his life and work with a hierarchical and visionary drive.
Essays
Life is a Dream (in Tokyo)
Life in Tokyo, reflected in Bouvier’s photography and Murakami’s prose, reveals an oracle of exhaustion and pause, where dreams question human mechanization and whisper the need to stop.
Essays
Venerable images: 60 years after ‘Les Choses’
In ‘Things’, Georges Perec creates a domestic utopia for a young couple, a refuge of books and dreams in a world of unattainable aspirations.
Essays
The books we are missing
In 1925, Mañach lamented the cultural decline of Cuba; today, in the throes of agony, there is a lack of critical and historical books that give meaning to our identity.
Essays
The Proximity of the Absent: Eros, Memory, and Freedom
De-distancing is not a mere semantic game: it is the very way in which beings unfold in our existence as aletheia, the ‘unconcealing of truth’.
Essays
Baudelaire and the Prose Poem
Baudelaire, creator of the prose poem, transformed the modern city into a subjective and metaphysical language. His «flâneur» gaze captured «spleen» and elevated it to art, anticipating decadence and the avant-garde.
Essays
The Measure of Pleasure
Montesquieu explores how taste, beyond the sensory, is educated and refined through curiosity and judgment, inviting readers to question their own complacencies in a dialogue that is still relevant today.
Essays
Vargas Llosa or the Fate of the Novelist
If everyone is talking about Vargas Llosa, about his legacy, recalling how and when they read his books, and also bringing up his miseries, it is because someone truly important has left us.