“The difficulty of the ghost ”by Leila Guerriero. Anagrama, 144 pages., $ 19,000.
Just after finishing “The call”, Guerriero went to the Costa Brava, in Spain, determined to look for material for a story about Truman Capote. The writer resided there, in the ’60s, in the town of Palamós while trying to conclude the final version of “Cold Blood.” As you will remember, the book tells the murder of the clutter family in Kansas and the subsequent capture of their murderers. Capote, who followed the investigation step by step and maintained a relationship with the criminals, had to wait until his execution to close the story. The stay on the Costa Brava, therefore, did not serve to meet its initial objective. A similar “failure” had a guerriero who looked in vain accurate tracks on cape in the area without finding them. The only thing they found were versions, contradictory data when not inventions on Truman’s intimacy. And Guerriero went empty or almost. He had to face the toughest task that can touch a chronicler: write an interesting text with nothing; Neither first, nor data, nor history. Of course, he far exceeded the test.
“The frequent darkness of our days ”by Rebecca Donner. Asteroid books, 672 pgs., $ 44000.
Mildred Harnack was born in Wisconsin in 1902 but her adult life passed in Germany, her husband’s homeland, economist Arvid Harnack. Both were members of the resistance in Hitler’s times and even collaborated as spies for the Soviet Union. Cocked by the Gestapo, in 1943 they were executed.
Mildred’s story was well known in the United States and Germany, but the biography “the frequent darkness of our day” does true justice to the character by dedicating a careful and deep investigation. Written by Canadian Rebecca Donner, member of the Mildred family, the book relies on a diversity of documents and, especially, on the correspondence of the protagonist who arrives at the author through her grandmother.
Excellent period picture that teaches us aspects of very little disseminated antizi Germany, biography is also a moving portrait of a remarkable woman. With impeccable edition, “the frequent darkness of our day” (Mildred translation of a Goethe verse on which he worked until his death) is an unexpected literary piece that inevitably resonates in the present.
“Full poetry ”by Julio Cortázar. Alfaguara, 824 pgs., $ 44,999.
“I love you, country, dirty handkerchief, with your streets/ covers of Peronist posters, I love you/ without hope and without forgiveness, without return and without right,/ nothing more than from far and bitter and at night,” says Julio Cortázar in his poem “La Patria”, included in the volume “Complete poetry” that Alfaguara has just edited. This is the most exhaustive meeting of his poetic work held so far. It includes an unpublished book, “Fable of Death” of 1941, written with the pseudonym Julio Denis and a group of scattered texts, also unpublished.
Although Cortázar never stopped writing poetry, this gener is the least traveled by the readers of his work. In fact, he only published 3 books with his poems. The rest appear loose or within their narrative. Look in its entirety, his poetry reflects an attempt of forms and issues, oscillating from the sonnet to the free verse and from politics to love. A fundamental book to achieve a complete vision of your literary project.
“The infernal nest ”by Mónica Müller. Vinilo, 72 pgs., $ 14,000.
With a long career as a publicist, Müller decided to change his profession, studied medicine and today is dedicated to his office and literature. In this essay it brings together its various knowledge to affirm that the world is biologically feminine and that marriage is a dark nest where we “crush” in slow motion. Safety pin. It is accompanied with a match box.
“Complete stories ”by Diego Angelino. Eternal Cadence, 160 pgs., $ 24,900.
It is a pleasure to discover this secret author, entrerriano by birth and Patagonian by decision, which praised the great Argentine writers from Borges to Walsh. He wrote 5 novels and two stories books and in this volume all his stories meet. Its places are the countryside and the town. Very short narratives where tragedy asordine nature.
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“This pain is not mine”
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“Recipes to live better and more time”
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Source: Yenny Libraries and Athenaeum.
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