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Categoría: English
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On the Experience of Fiction
Long before we learn the first things about books and specifically novels, we are already fully acquainted with the most sophisticated devices of narrative fiction. Books belong in libraries and […]
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Lessons of winter
A student from Lima tells me that the chief lesson New York has taught him is the change of seasons. “In Lima the weather is always more or less the […]
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Unacceptable clarity
To canonize Camus on the obvious occasion of his centenary is to attempt what his worst enemies could not do: domesticate him, or bury him in irrelevance. The causes he […]
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Indonesian night
In a depraved parallel universe, veterans of the SS or of the death squads in Argentina grow old amid the admiration and respect of their neighbors, and appear on TV […]
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Bicycle lives and death
The bicycle is a literary machine. No sooner was it invented than it began to show up in novels. In Valle-Inclan’s Misericordia, which was published in 1887, one character rents a […]
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Parallel lives
I was reading Dionisio Ridruejo’s Russian notebooks, when by chance I found another book that is almost its exact reverse. In 1941, when Ridruejo enlisted in the Blue Division, Ferran […]
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The Lighthouse at the End of the Hudson
For some time, I went down to the edge of the Hudson, to run along a path that then reached north to 125th Street and now extends up to the George […]
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Big industry
The other day an article on Iceland brought home to me the curious fact that in Spain, with its rich cultural heritage, there is a very general contempt, public and […]
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On the trail of Juan Gris
In the grey December of Madrid, about the hottest color is the red dress of a woman painted by Juan Gris. Gris went off to Paris in 1906, at the […]
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Reluctant warriors
A book by the British historian James Matthews has reminded me of some older men I knew when I was a child, as I helped them gather olives, or dig […]