Byung-Chul Han and the hopeful mind
Hope is a matter of theology and Marxism. It can be transcendental or historical. For the Greeks it was a ...
Tag: Literary criticism
‘The best in the world’, by Juan Tallón: I know who I am or so I think
The subject of this novel could not be more timeless and fascinating: what we could have been and are not. ...
‘Nela 1979’, by Juan Trejo: Where did the victims of heroin go?
We are going to review a book, Nela 1979which, without being a great book, offers valuable suggestions and curiously the ...
‘First there was the sea’, by Tomás González: we are particles with impossible projects
A review places a book in the cultural field and also in the market. Beyond utopias of independence of the ...
Josep Pla: an encyclopedic biography
Until now there was a Josep Pla; From this ungovernable volume there is another Pla, truer, more authentic, millimetrically followed ...
‘A handful of arrows’, by María Gainza: writing to tell something else
It happens in a random bar, well into the early hours of the morning. Buenos Aires summer and it is, ...
‘Face to power’, by Martin Baron: chronicle of the war between politics, technology and the media
The memoirs of journalist Martin Baron about his years at the head of the newspaper Washington Post They are the ...
The terrible daily life under the Israeli occupation, the adventures of the Count of Villamediana, the mantras against immigration and other books of the week
Our (excellent) book of the week addresses a specific drama, the tragedy that occurred on February 16, 2012, for a ...
A comic about sexist violence, a chronicle of trafficking in women, the glorious disorder of the world and other books of the week
Moth, by Barcelona-born Alba Muñoz (1985), is our book of the week. This is a remarkable novel, halfway between a ...
Franz Kafka’s centenary books
The centenary of Franz Kafka's death is commemorated in Prague and throughout Europe because few contemporary literary works have embodied ...
