A list of all the books I read in 2021. (*) indicates a book I especially loved; (r) a repeat reading. Boquitas pintadas de Manuel Puig (*) Las mejores letras de tango (comp. Héctor Ángel Benedetti) Bolivia y Perú de Gonzalo Beladrich Los heraldos negros de...
En la víspera del Año Nuevo queríamos escuchar música alegre y alguien puso el concierto en vivo de una cantante brasileña. Facu preguntó por qué la música argentina no expresa una semejante alegría y Nacho le respondió, «Porque somos unos italianos que se arrepienten...
Here in Argentina people tell me, often enough that it’s a kind of refrain, that there’s no future for them in this country. Sometimes this takes the form of the plans they’re making – the qualification they’re working towards, the money...
This is my translation of the first two chapters of Mario Levrero’s novel The City. The protagonist lives in a perverse universe where nothing he does produces the outcome he expects and his choices keep leading him further and further from home. By his own...
Tarde o temprano en la historia de cada colonia todas las paradojas de la identidad criolla se manifiestan como un problema cultural. Los intereses económicos de los criollos impulsan su independencia política de la antigua metrópoli y su conexión con las tierras...
Juan Rulfo is one of those authors famous for only a couple of books – his reputation rests on the short story collection El llano en llamas and the novel Pedro Páramo, both published in a burst of creativity in the 1950s. For an author whose terse style evokes a...
