Azorín’s modernism refers to the vast international and cosmopolitan movement that developed in the first third of the 20th century. That is, on the dates that the writer produced his main works. In the same decade of the sixties of the XIX century in which Unamuno and Valle-Inclán were born, Italo Svevo saw the first … Read more
Premiered on November 12, 1976 at the Teatro 11 de Julio in Mexico City, with a cast headed by Augusto Benedico, Pituka de Foronda, Leonardo Daniel and José Elías Moreno, the play “What’s happening here?” marked the professional debut of Guadalajara playwright Oscar Trejo Saragossa; and made him, in turn, the youngest playwright (21 years … Read more
In September 1835, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a letter to the editor Thomas Willis White. A year earlier, White had founded in Richmond, Virginia, the Southern Literary Messengera magazine where some of the Poe’s best short stories and essays. The reason for that letter was a full-fledged apology. The writer wanted to be readmitted to … Read more
AGI – She is young, beautiful, nice. She revealed her identity from Fabio Fazio to “Che tempo che fa” Erin Doom, the writer who until now had hidden behind a pseudonym, like Elena Ferrante. She too has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Italy. On Fazio’s stage she said to call herself Matilda, is … Read more
Dear Aldo, the Murgia works very hard to appear outside the pack, makes deliberately extreme statements, takes pleasure in scandalizing with the arrogance typical of the counter-current role it practices. I found it unacceptable to talk about cancer as a very kind disease. And I sympathize with cancer patients who will have read this ridiculous … Read more
Dril, the iconic Twitter persona known for his absurd and cryptic tweets that have captivated a massive audience, has kept his true identity a mystery for over a decade. However, in a recent interview, Dril revealed his legal name and spoke about the possibility of working outside of Twitter. Fans of Dril were surprised and … Read more
“This is the time of hype and bombs. Of automatism versus intelligence, of standardization versus differentiation, of advertising values, of serial thinking, of quantity versus quality. And half of humanity continues to devote itself to the exploitation of the other half. Everything is dehumanized. We live surrounded by countless madmen set up as heroes.” Anyone … Read more
The Spanish writer Marta Sanz (Madrid, 1967) believes that Spanish authors pay more and more attention to Latin American literature and assures that the “stylistically more intrepid” books written in our language are those that come out of that region. In an interview for her participation in the festival Central America account which has reached … Read more
It is announced and presented. The 26th Lima International Book Fair – FIL LIMA 2022 will open its doors from July 22 to August 7, in person at the Parque Próceres de la Independencia de Jesús María. According to information from its directors, it will offer more than 140 stands that will bring the largest … Read more
The recent publication of Mónica Lavín, Last days of my parents (Planeta, 2022), a book that was presented at Casa Lamm last Wednesday, June 8 with a full house, accompanied by Rosa Beltrán and Ricardo Raphael, has been a surprise. It turns out that in this chronicle Mónica does not deviate from the central theme … Read more