To Remember Leonardo Acosta
A memory of filiations reveals how an intellectual presence continues to shape readings, affections, and losses.
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Memory
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A Little Before, Nothing; and a Little After, Smoke!
Old age, brushed by the vertigo of death, finds in literary memory a way of postponing the abyss.
Essays
The Precarious Lives of Natalia Ginzburg
Memory sustains an ethics of precariousness, where family, history, and mourning reveal their exposure.
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The Tolstoy Switchman
Two former Cuban lovers reunite in New York, marked by exile, memory, and death.
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Memory Weighs More
A tribute to José Luis García, a solitary writer whose literature transforms memory, exile, and authority into something enduring.
Book Reviews
Of Exiles and Obituaries: A New Book by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Chronicles and obituaries that explore exile, memory, and criticism of the Castro regime, bringing forgotten figures and Cuban ideological tensions back into the spotlight.
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‘El año del cordero’, a novel by Xavier Carbonell
An author discovers a nonexistent novel that he himself wrote.
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‘Malincour’ / or ‘unalgo’ that reverberates
Maurizio Medo’s poetic writing as a loving transition between memory, languages, migration, and a reverberating present.
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Perverting Reality
‘Malincuor’ confirms a fragmentary poetics where memory, imagination, and language pervert reality to make it more true.
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‘Malincuor’, or How I Learned Not to Forget While Reading Medo
Medo’s ‘Malincuor’ is a dense and playful book that blends family post-memory with European history in a metaphorical train journey, using humour, irony and kaleidoscopic language to create an active and lively read.