Tag Archive | La Jornada
Macedonio Fernández Profiled in La Jornada
A couple weeks ago La Jornada had several long articles about the Argentine author Macedonio Fernández one of Borges great friends and mentors. He was quite a character and his literary ideas are still unique. Open Letter Press brought out his The Museum of Eterna’s Novel a few years ago. It is called a novel, [...]
Agustín Yáñez – An Appreciation in La Jornada
It has been years since I read Agustín Yáñez’s The Edge of the Storm (Al filo del Agua), a book I quite liked when I read it. It was one of the first works of Mexican Literature I read. Roger Vilar has a nice impressionistic appreciation in La Jornada. One that gives you a sense of the [...]
Interview With Antonio Gamoneda in La Jornada
La Jornada has a long interview with the Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda. –Sé que has publicado un libro de memorias. Quiero preguntarte acerca de tu visión de España, de esa España de la Guerra civil que te tocó vivir en la más tierna infancia y después en la postguerra, en la que seguramente tuviste más [...]
Concha Urquiza A Modern Mystic Poet from Mexico’s Past
La Jornada has an long appreciation for the Mexican poet Chocha Urquiza, who died young at the age of 35. Her story is turbulent and full of activity as seems to happen with many Mexican artists of the time. At first writing poetry with vanguard poets and joining the communist party, she latter moves to [...]
Alberto Fuguet: from Film to Literature, the Hybrid Case of a Writer
La Jornada has an interview with the Chilean Author Alberto Fuguet is a younger author who as a proponent of Mc Hondo has looked to turn away from the over saturated magical realism that came to define Latin American Literature. His book Shorts is available in English and is a mix of story telling methods, [...]
José Emilio Pacheco and Elena Poniatowska in La Jornada
There is an excellent, if writterly, appreciation of José Emilio Pacheco in this Sunday’s cultural supplement in La Jornada. It is certainly worth a read if you have an interest and know Spanish. Pacheco is the author of Las batellas en el desierto (The Battles in the Desert) which I reviewed sometime ago and remains [...]
Bolaño in La Jornada
There was a good article about Bolaño in La Jornada’s Sunday supplement this week talking about Bolaño’s views of exile. According to Gustavo Ogarrio, Bolaño didn’t really believe in political exile because it made him a victim, which he was not. He also thought it was pointless to be nostalgic about the old country “Can [...]
Micro Fiction or Star Trek Fiction (sp)
I always find it fascinating when Star Trek can inspires literary art that really has nothing to do with sci-fi. A few weeks ago, or was it a month now, La Jornada published this bit of fun. 2.- Su cuerpo llega mal acomodado: debe caminar con las orejas, hablar por las uñas, orinar por la [...]
