A Farewell
‘I’m Gone’ by Jean Echenoz, Goncourt Prize winner of 1999, bids farewell to the 20th century through Félix Ferrer, an art dealer navigating personal trials in a dehumanized world.
Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Alberto Garrido
A variation on the “Proust Questionnaire.” For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social ...
The polygamous reader: bigamy and libraries in rural Florida
Henry Betsey Jr., a Floridian passionate about 19th-century literature, maintained three simultaneous marriages and vast libraries in each home until his bigamy was uncovered.
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Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Joaquín Badajoz
A variation on the “Proust Questionnaire.” For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social ...
Bookspel
Byung-Chul Han, or how philosophy became an airport bestseller
Byung-Chul Han, winner of the Princess of Asturias Award, turns philosophy into a bestseller with existential aphorisms that seduce the urban creative class.
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Second Neo-Realist Manifesto (From Peirce to Lezama Lima)
Transcendental Realism understands reality as an aesthetic and relational experience, resolving oppositions through a trichotomous function that transcends binary logic.
Bouquiphiles
Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Luis Felipe Rojas
A variation on the “Proust Questionnaire.” For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social ...
Loose Pages
Berliozianas: Rigoletto
Rigoletto, the opera in which Verdi shows that there is no revenge, curse, or master plan that can stand against the enormous force of human ...
Loose Pages
A Small Apocalypse
Writing here today, in this city, on this street, in this dark apartment, is an irrational act of stubbornness, an old man's pastime.
Bookspel
The Unemployed Reader’s Wet Dream
Two years have passed since Luna Miguel's performance of reading in silence for 48 hours, turning reading into a challenge to banality.
Essays
Venerable images: 60 years after ‘Les Choses’
In 'Things', Georges Perec creates a domestic utopia for a young couple, a refuge of books and dreams in a world of unattainable aspirations.
Bouquiphiles
Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Sergio Luis Pérez Hernán
A variation on the “Proust Questionnaire.” For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social ...
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The books we are missing
In 1925, Mañach lamented the cultural decline of Cuba; today, in the throes of agony, there is a lack of critical and historical books that ...