It will be St. John’s Eve this weekend, so it is fitting to discuss bonfires. Here is a description of a book I would really like to read. After an introduction which explains the significance of bonfires and lays out the sources for the book, the narrative begins in Iberia with a brief history of … More Very Early Mexico
Le gardien du port connaît bien Charlesia. Elle passe régulièrement devant sa guérite et se dirige vers le quai. Elle scrute l’horizon, dans l’attente vaine d’un bateau qui la ramènera dans son île natale. Diego Garcia n’est plus qu’un souvenir, la nostalgie douloureuse d’une vie simple rythmée par la production de Coprah, les jeux des … More Shenaz Patel
This is the book I forgot to bring. Perhaps I can find it here. Axé.
I hope this exposition is still on when I get to México, D.F. The Museo del Estanquillo is one I have never been to, in any case; I have also never been to the Casa de Francia and its reading room. There are now many expositions from the private collection of Carlos Monsiváis, who died … More Noticias del Imperio
We have had the Devil to pay lately, here in Maringouin. We have lost some people and a program. The above song sings to the 1964-84 Brazilian dictatorship that in spite of it, tomorrow is another day. And in life generally, we had so much advice on how to get things done. I, however, have … More The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
This is just from Wikipedia, but consider the amazing and yet typically 19th century writer´s life. Camilo was born out of wedlock and orphaned in infancy, although his origins lay ultimately in Northern Portugal’s provincial aristocracy (his father, Manuel Joaquim Botelho Castelo Branco, was the son of an illustrious household in the environs of Vila … More Camilo Castelo Branco
Apuntes breves sobre Señales que precederán el fin del mundo El territorio mítico de Aztlán es de donde vendrían los Aztecas; Moctezuma I lo buscó y lo han buscado muchos más; está al norte de Tenochtitlan pero no sabemos cuánto. Aztlán también es el territorio patria de los Xicanos; en esta novela se junta el … More Reading for pleasure: Yuri Herrera
This is from the Codex Boturini and I found it on Wikipedia. Moctezuma I tried to find out where Aztlán was and so did the 16th century Fray Diego Durán. People have been working on this ever since; Aztlán could have been near Florida, or at a Mississippian site in Wisconsin, or somewhere north of … More Viaje a Aztlán
In Eastertide, as we are. On the progress toward death as a process of healing. My new favorite film, Biutiful. Sanjinés, referring to Borda and Saenz and then back to Benjamin, on the corpse. “Everything corpse-like falls away from the body piece by piece.” Sanjinés’ book is the most truly erudite thing I have read … More Muerte. a. muerte.
Václav Havel is one of the people about whom I do not know enough. The Nation had a piece on Havel and Occupy, quoting interesting texts by him from the sixties and seventies that shed shocking light on the present moment. I would like to point to it and read it again. Eventually it will … More Václav Havel
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