Tag Archives: Latin American Literature

June 28

The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector speaks on life, death and the question ‘Who am I?’

  Everything in the world began with a yes.  One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes.  It was ever so.  I do not know why, but I do know the universe never […]

January 05

Hypothermia – Álvaro Enrigue’s journey through hell (Book Review)

As I was leaving his office, my right hand touched the gold fountain pen in my shirt pocket, a gift from my sister when I finished my BA. We call it la pluma de Dumbo, which is to say – because pluma is plume is feather is quill is pen – Dumbo’s feather, because until […]