‘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.
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.
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.
The Russian novel, where history and reality merge into symbolic narrative.
‘The Magic Mountain’: the heroism of weakness in the face of the European crisis.
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.
A novel that explores love, sacrifice, and faith through an Artificial Friend in an ambiguous future, from a minimalist and universal narrative.
An ambivalent reading of ‘To the Lighthouse’ reveals its hypnotic and devastating power, where inner vision and sensory experience replace conventional plot.
A diary-novel that, with nonchalant brilliance, blends the trivial and the profound, challenging literary conventions while reflecting daily life and the reader’s condition.
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.
