by CBQ_claudia | Sep 18, 2017
This book is the story –in the shape of an intimate diary- of a man –a writer- that looks for his lost destiny in a spot beyond the border between adolescence and maturity. He tries to find a job, falls in love and loses interest, watches his mother get sick, fights...
by CBQ_claudia | Jun 4, 2017
Andrés, main character of this short novel lives with his father and brother. His mother, who brought some order to all their lives and gave them some connection, has died. Andrés locks himself up in his room almost entirely cut off from the world listening to...
by CBQ_claudia | Apr 15, 2017
The paths Fabián Casas sets out in Ensayos Bonsai are generally unpredictable: he can jump from Spinoza’s concept of power to an essay by Marcelo Cohen to Argentine letters and a bit further on to something Kurt Cobain found funny to the search for a shoeshop in a...
by CBQ_claudia | Apr 15, 2017
What is hidden behind the cover photograph of the Beatles’ album Abbey Road? What do the films Rumble Fish, Stalker and The Night of the Hunter have in common? What manifests the genius of great writers like Roberto Bolaño, William Faulkner and Samuel Beckett? All the...
by CBQ_claudia | Apr 15, 2017
“There we were, like ants in their cubicles, running up and down the hallways, smoking, writing, seducing one another, hating one another, blessed and cursed all of us journalists, those lost causes that feed people like Robinson.” Andrés Stella, a young writer at a...
