Nice photocopies of books, that I’d actually like to have in the library, going because they’re photocopies and they’re dated, although still good, useful, classic: Mariaca, El poder de la palabra (and my photocopy was from the 90s, not this edition, and you can get PDFs of this book, too, from ResearchGate and places like that); Rama, Rubén Darío y el modernismo. My edition is from 1985 but it was originally published in 1970 as Rubén Darío y el modernismo: circunstancia socioeconomica de un arte americano, and they have it at Tulane; you can also get used copies of the edition I have as real books in Spain. Finally, there’s a set of essays on Hijo de hombre published by Poitiers (Sicard and Moreno, eds.), that’s hard to get and a memento, and I like that novel, but again it’s dated. If I need it in the future, it’s at the University of Chicago library, 840 miles away.
Finally, among other tattered books I am donating is Jack Weatherford’s Indian Givers. This is a very smart book from 1988, and you can still get it new. I am not mentioning all the books I am dropping, classic works of criticism and translation, they have been the wallpaper of my identity, but they’re tattered.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 