The Doctor in Zürau
Suffering from tuberculosis, Kafka retired to Zürau, where he wrote his Aphorisms, an enigmatic work of metaphysical reflections.
Essays
Literature
Book Reviews
Identity and Body Transplantation. A Reading of ‘The Hands of Orlac’
When the body becomes alien and science breaks down identity.
Bouquiphiles
I left it in your mailbox ‘Con la vida por detrás. Fines de la literatura’
An elegant, twilight meditation on literature, which, already aware of its own mortality and limits in the face of pain, finds its dignity when it inhabits the ruins of language and memory.
Bouquiphiles
Reading to Escape
I read to save myself. I read everything, Greek theater and Sholokhov’s trash. Marcel Proust and the terrifying Chapaiev.
Bouquiphiles
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.