Genres > Non-fiction > Literary
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The Unauthorized Biography of 1910
NON FICTION, 2010
Balmaceda immerses himself in the year of the country's centenary to tell in his accessible, engaging style the incredible stories that took place during the lavish celebrations, including the...
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NON FICTION, 2006
If a technological genius were ever to invent a time machine, the journalist and historian Daniel Balmaceda would be its most frequent user. He'd never stop accumulating time miles researching...
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The Initial Manifestation. Conversations at Princeton
ESSAY, 2015
In the recent essays, conversations and interviews that make up this volume, Piglia uses conversation, which he sees as the initial manifestation of any intellectual endeavour, to explore some...
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Egocides: Macedonio Fernández and the Destruction of the Self
ESSAY, 2003
Macedonio Fernández believed that literature is an encounter between a reader who doesn't read with an author who doesn't write. I.e: a misunderstanding in which author and reader end up...
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NON FICTION, 2015
Manguel writes about his new work, Curiosity: “Our education systems today refuse to acknowledge the second half of our quests. Interested in little else than material efficiency and...
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NON-FICTION, 2007
These aren’t success stories, although its protagonists could well compile an inventory of days, months and even years of glory. Neither is this an informative book. Anyone seeking to learn...
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NON FICTION, 2013
In this essay, Yushimito presents "a re-reading of the social crisis in the short fiction of Alonso Cueto, Guillermo Niño de Guzmán and Jorge Valenzuela". The story of the...
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