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Las ideas no se matan: reflexiones sobre la literatura latinoamericana II - “No mires hacia abajo, sino hacia fuera”: En busca del mito de la figura caída

In the second instalment of her column Izzie Hackett reflects on the thin lines we craft between fiction and reality, the diverging paths that entangle these lines, and the stories we tell ourselves through some of the most famous Latin American writers and their stories.

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Las ideas no se matan: reflexiones sobre la literatura latinoamericana I - La ‘espectralidad’ de la imagen y el arte del negativo

In the first instalment of her column Izzie Hackett explores the spectral undertones of Juan Rulfo’s Mexico by looking at the author’s photography and its relationship to the novel Pedro Páramo.

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