Jorge Edwards

An Envoy in Castro's Cuba

Persona Non Grata

A leading Latin American progressive writer and intellectual recalls the four months he spent in Cuba in 1970 trying to reopen the Chilean embassy and confronting the evils of the Castro regime in the process. Reprint.

A Memoir of Disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution

El peso de la noche

Nicole Martel

Emile Martel

Recherche d'une impossible vérité, la descente aux enfers du docteur Patricio Illanes se fait traversée du désir de l'autre, au fil d'une enquête acharnée qui le mène à travers Paris et les miroirs déformants du sentiment qui l'accable. Humour cinglant à l'appui, l'auteur met au jour les angoisses enfouies d'un homme arrivé au terme du désir comme au terme de sa vie et qui, confronté à l'image figée de L'origine du monde, ne peut échapper au corps vivant qui est à l'origine du mal.

Roman

L'origine du Monde

P. D. James

Jorge Luis Borges

Hugh Thomas

Marcos Aguinis

The Borges Lectures

These are real life ghosts because they live in the memory of the author, as they could live in anybody else's memory. Some are very present whereas others lie half hidden in a corner of his mind, sometimes they unfold in confusing visions and others they become shadows that appear in vague dreams and failed sensations, and they never fully appear. Eight short stories peopled by ghosts, all of them preceded by a warning in which the author seems to confess that even though he lets himself be invaded uncontrollably by these feverish presences, he owes them the fact of being a writer, since he extracts from them the sap that feeds his characters, and thanks to them he creates and recreates stories.

Fantasmas de carne y hueso

Jorge Edwards

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