Proust’s Youth
A youth marked by maternal devotion, passions and epiphany in everyday beauty.
French Literature
Essays
Portrait of Baudelaire
A tragic and visionary dandy, Baudelaire transformed the misery and splendor of Paris into poetry where the abyss becomes beauty.
Book Reviews
Resonances of the Fragmented Violin
A nineteenth-century novel that, with introspective prose, criticizes the commodification of art via an obsession with a symbolic violin.
Book Reviews
‘Mouchette’: Against all interpretation
A short and radical novel about the last days of a teenager excluded from a hostile rural environment, with prose devoid of psychology, focused on the meticulous description of inevitable events.
Essays
Albert Camus’ Carnets (1935-1951)
Rebellious existentialism, moral integrity, and resistance to the absurd through notes, quotes, and reflections.
Book Reviews
A Farewell
‘I’m Gone’ by Jean Echenoz, Goncourt Prize winner of 1999, bids farewell to the 20th century through Félix Ferrer, an art dealer navigating personal trials in a dehumanized world.
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.
Loose Pages
A chair and a demon for ‘Un Coup de dés’
‘Un Coup de dés’ represented an impossible challenge for Odilon Redon, who was unable to fully translate abstract silences into images.
Book Reviews
With Rapture to Seduction
Editorial Casa Vacía publishes ‘Notas sobre André Gide’ (2025) by Roger Martin du Gard, a volume celebrating his literary friendship with Gide and his legacy. At just over 100 pages, this book reads like a novel, evoking an enduring intellectual connection.