‘The more people die, the more I want to live’: the fighter Maruja Torres
With her bones in tatters, monthly eye and bladder operations, 10 centimetres shorter and an elephant's memory, Maruja Torres keeps ...
Tag: Literary criticism
A memory of the victims of heroin in the eighties, Juan Tallón’s foray into fantasy, Joan Didion’s x-ray of the upper middle class and other books of the week
Where did the victims of heroin in the 1980s in Spain go? Nela 1979, Novelist Juan Trejo investigates the premature ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
‘Les Luthiers, from L to S’: the Lutheran Bible
The best and most rewarding way to get closer to the legacy of the Argentine group of musicians and comedians ...
Anti-democratic conspiracy against Obama, Leonidas was not from Golden Dawn, the lucid brother of James Joyce and other books of the week
In the week that Kamala Harris is crowned as the Democratic Party candidate to replace President Joe Biden, the latest ...
‘The Book of Days of Stanislaus Joyce’, a gem by Diego Garrido about the brother of the author of ‘Ulysses’
It is quite possible that the least commercial novel of the year in Spanish was written by Diego Garrido (Madrid, ...
‘Perverse Happiness’, the women of Tove Ditlevsen
About five years ago, Tove Ditlevsen was virtually unknown. But this quickly changed, thanks in part to the extraordinary boost ...