When I finished the book I remembered the first time I smelled a rose. It’s strange, of course, because who keeps a memory like that? One remembers his first kiss, or the first time he traveled alone, or the first time he thought of death, and not the first time he smelled a rose. But...
Martín Lombardo, the cinema and the apple, by Verónica Nieto
Two stories intersect here: on the one hand, a man who remembers the letters his uncle Robert sent him, obsessed with Willhem Tell’s lineage and the cinema. On the other hand, a professor of Spanish for foreigners who lives in France and receives a detective assignment from one of his students: to find the whereabouts...
“Em devia a la pàtria de la imaginació”, by Matías Crowder in Diari de Girona
The pages of Tell are filled with a universe of history intertwined in the cosmos of the famous and fictional arch of Swiss independence, with the ambition of a sexagenarian filmmaker who reviews his life from his track or the young man he hires to write the fish in this endless puzzle. With the...
Buenos Aires, bad air, by Jordi Gracia in El País
Article by Jordi Gracia in the culture supplement Babelia, El País Carlos A. Colla signs a disturbing story that ties together the social upheaval of Argentina’s ‘corralito’ with his personal and family decomposition The shadow of the misfortune that strikes Argentina again may turn out to be for many a worse nightmare than the first...
Magma editorial, the eruption of the novels, by Matías Néspolo in El Mundo
Article by Matías Néspolo in El Mundo Trained in Philology at the UB and with a PhD from Brown University under the direction of Julio Ortega, the Catalan Pepa Novell is a ubiquitous editor. It is difficult to guess where she is in the world at any given time, even though her permanent residence is...
Theological virtues of the editor, by Domingo Ródenas de Moya, in El Periódico
Article by Domingo Ródenas de Moya, in El Periódico Hercules could not face his twelve works without enthusiasm, nor Herralde the creation and command of a publishing house, our Anagram, which now celebrates half a century! Enthusiasm is the engine of great companies and the airbag that prevents a breakdown when a bump comes. It...