Marginalia is a collection of micro-essays or reflections on reading, writing, the materiality of the book and the joyful conversation with the books of the past. Carlos Yushimito plays with the model of the glosses or annotations left at the edge of the page by those who read the old medieval books and thus reminds us that reading and writing are, in the end, two sides of the same coin.

His texts, which oscillate between poetic flight and profound analysis, are constructed through dialogue with luminous quotations that expand into new revelations, but also through the remembrance of books read and reread, among which we find Marcel Proust, Michele Petit, Hilda Mundy, Borges, Walter Benjamin, Peter Mendelsund or Clarice Lispector.

In this edition, Yushimito’s micro-essays merge with a gallery of archival photographs showing women and men exercising and stretching, as well as different outdoor landscapes, establishing a displaced dialogue with the text and expanding its resonances, glossing it in turn as new marginalia. Because, as Yushimito says, writing is reading backwards, an unremarkable art but one for which a curious mix of exercise, rigor and flexibility is undoubtedly needed.