Master Lezama’s Premonition in Monsignor Lefebvre
The Lefebvrist schism anticipates a historical reconfiguration of Catholicism, interpreted through Lezama and Transcendental Realism.
Theory of Miami
A city that exists between impossible permanence and the perpetual threat of change.
Microscopic IV
The absurd, violence, and language from a fragmentary and corrosive imagination.
Loose Pages
To Remember Leonardo Acosta
A memory of filiations reveals how an intellectual presence continues to shape readings, affections, and losses.
Loose Pages
Citario Kafka
A constellation of phrases that encircle and explore the legacy of Franz Kafka.
Essays
A Freedom Glimpsed and Elusive
Melville turned the sea into an impossible freedom: a promise of revelation, condemnation, and permanence.
Essays
A Renaissance Prince in Havana
Ferrara turned power into archive, and biography into a reckoning with History.
Loose Pages
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.
Book Reviews
The Battle of Anghiari, the Complete and the Beautiful
Beauty is born where form, power, and image are consumed in a single intensity.
Loose Pages
Sunday, Soundgarden, and the Bills to Pay…
Maturity means accepting that art, vocation, love, and bills all belong to the same vital groove.
Book Reviews
In the Interval
A Reading of ‘The Sentimental Memoirs of João Miramar’, by Oswald de Andrade.
Kabbalah and Cosmos
April 16, 2026
Kabbalah as symbolic cosmology: creation, rupture, exile, and restoration through sacred language.
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The Chibás and Cuba
November 13, 2025
Tribute to Raúl Chibás, who links his heroic lineage with the tragic failed continuity of Cuban independence.
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The Inscription that Proust (did not) Read
April 22, 2025
Du Bos writes his dedication to Proust as if Plotinus had written to Plato, more out of metaphysical affinity than material contact.
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A Venice of Shadows
April 18, 2025
Venice has been Tintoretto for me. And Tintoretto is the painter of writers, as Mary McCarthy said.
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German Beauties: About ‘Bestiario búlgaro’
June 19, 2025
A book of poems by Mario Arteca, notable for its poetic and artistic merit, as well as its profound reflection on social and political decline. ...
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Science and Silence: Reading ‘The River’ in the 21st Century
August 3, 2025
What if the origin of HIV was not just a scientific question, but an institutional one?
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