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.
Essays
Novel
Book Reviews
‘Wuthering Heights’: Passion and Storm
A romantic classic that explores destructive passions, revenge, and obsession between Catherine and Heathcliff in the Yorkshire moors.
Book Reviews
Novelizing the Great Felo Ramírez: a Daring Biographical Exercise
‘Y la noche doblaba por tercera’: a daring fictionalized biography of Cuban baseball narrator Felo Ramírez, where reality and fiction merge.
Inquisitions
Efraín Rodríguez Santana: “My novel delves into the inner workings of that entity with absolute powers”
‘Mi último viaje en Lada’ pursues a truth that can never be captured, as if crime and literature were, at heart, versions of the same unfinished fable.
Bookspel
The Million-Euro Prize or How the Premio Planeta Lost the Novel and Won Prime Time
If the twentieth century believed in the solitary genius, the twenty-first prefers the television author. And the Planeta is a faithful mirror of the market.
Loose Pages
Among the Banyans
A woman negotiates with a homeless man to retrieve a collector’s magazine that he is using to mark his shelter among the roots of a tree.
Essays
Russia or the Novel as Destiny
The Russian novel, where history and reality merge into symbolic narrative.
Essays
Thomas Mann and ‘The Magic Mountain’: There is no Heroism Greater than that of Weakness
‘The Magic Mountain’: the heroism of weakness in the face of the European crisis.
Inquisitions
Nelson Llanes: “I don’t believe in the honesty of writers”
Nelson Llanes delves into how his novel establishes the pig as a central symbol to explore, through a sober and fragmentary style, the unyielding violence and ambiguous human condition without promise of redemption.
Book Reviews
See how it can be done? (About ‘Klara and the Sun’)
A novel that explores love, sacrifice, and faith through an Artificial Friend in an ambiguous future, from a minimalist and universal narrative.