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Lucía Lijtmaer · Anagram · 2023
Perhaps encouraged by the success of Lucia Lijtmaer's latest novel, Cautery, Anagrama recovers this text from 2015 in which the author beats genres, stories and protagonists. Travel to Argentina, your country of birth, to scratch in the story of Jorge and Simón, a couple who sold high-flying imported fashion to the wealthy women of Buenos Aires in the eighties from a chic and revolutionary store called La Colorada. It's the excuse to tell, sideways, the political and economic drift of the country and the dualities and contradictions of Argentine families that, like yours, They migrated to Spain in the time of Videla. He does it by resorting to the first person, changing scenery lightly and hybridizing genres, with rhythm and without stridency. S.M.
See the house: The power of Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich · Full · 2023
See the house: The power of Emily Dickinson it is a short essay, written after a visit by Adrienne Rich to Amherst, hometown of the poet. A provocative and intelligent text that awakens emotions and sensations, and which sheds light on Dickinson's poetry and life. Writes Carme Manuel in the introduction: "This essay changed the way of reading the work of the most avant-garde poet of the Anglophone 19th century". Indeed, apart from the legend of a lonely woman, inaccessible, and reclusive in herself, Rich presents Dickinson as a “creator aware of the extraordinary dimensions of her talent, who chose to distance themselves from the world in order to build a space of artistic freedom". The volcanic images of Dickinson's poetry are interpreted by the American essayist and poet as "a fundamental symbol of her poetry. LOURDES TOLEDO
