“The elegant terrorist ”by Mia Couto and José Eduardo Agualusa. Edhasa, 68 pgs., $ 12,500.
This small volume written in collaboration by Couto and Agualusa is one of the first of a very special collection launched by the Edhasa label. It is called postdata and, although the stories that it gathers can enter the category of “object book”, the edition plays a special emphasis on reading. In principle, texts by Roberto Arlt, Scott Fitzgerald, David James Poissant and others are announced. All are illustrated by an artist who interprets the story (in “The elegant terrorist” is Florencia Bohtling) and include the recommendation of a bookseller (in this case, Irina del Valle Peña de Station Book, Adrogué). The final touch is a mehed flap where the reader can write whatever, keep it or give it away. “Reading. That unites us,” says the editors as a slogan.
“Ricardo Romero’s book of biases. Godot, 120 pgs., $ 20,999.
“Bias” is a fashion term and describes something that we all know for a long time: that we can only look at reality from an angle, ours. So describing a “bias” is almost how to undertake a trip to the interior of our mind. That is what Ricardo Romero tries to tell us in “The book of biases”, subtitled “How and why our head makes us believe what you want.” Perhaps because Romero is a novelist, makes this essay (or set of essays) a very easy to read text, which feeds on popular genres to be better explained and entrusted, from the beginning, to the spirit of David Foster Wallace. With illustrations by Juan Maffeo and design of his editor, Víctor Malumián, is also a good book, a beautiful object.
“A film is all the cinema ”by Andrés Di Tella. La Crujía and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 256 pgs. $ 28,500.
The filmmaker Andés Di Tella is in charge of the film program of the Torcuato Di Tella University. And to this program are important guests to talk about their poetics and their works. “A film is all the cinema”, a book edited by the University and the Editorial La Crujía and compiled by Di Tella, brings together the contribution of these directors. The edition is luxurious with images of the main films of these filmmakers. They are Lucrecia Martel, Joao Moreira Salles, Marta Andreu, Pedro Costa, Mariano Llinás, Radu Jude, James Benning and Albertina Carri. In a brief final manifesto, Di Tella says he expects her films to illuminate “a little” the lives of the spectators. The texts of this book “illuminate” any reflection on art, whatever gender or place from which we live the experience.
“The next time I see you, I kill you ”by Paulina Flores. Anagrama, 200 pgs., $ 27,600.
It is one of the most interesting writers of their generation. And although he is very young (36 years old), his literature caught attention from his first book, the volume of stories “what shame.” Granta magazine was distinguished by Junro to 25 other narrators, in 2021, as a literary promise. And the awards began to arrive and also a second novel, “Island disappointment.” Although he was born and formed in Chile, today it is installed in Spain. Precisely, in “next time …” he talks about his status as an immigrant at the same time that he exposes the sky and hell of his love for Manuel, his “Room Mate.” The language is explosive, delusional, crossed by the language of Chile and Spain. Critics say that it is also sexy. It is worth discovering it.
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Source: Yenny Libraries and Athenaeum.
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