Articles by
RAFAEL ROJAS
Rafael Rojas (Santa Clara, Cuba, 1965). He is a historian and essayist. He has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Havana and a PhD in History from El Colegio de México. He is a regular contributor to the magazine Letras Libres and the newspaper El País, and is a member of the editorial board of the magazine Istor of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE). He has published the books: Un banquete canónico (2000), Revolución, disidencias y exilio intelectual cubano (2006), La vanguardia peregrina. El escritor cubano, la tradición y el exilio (2013), among others. Since July 2019, he occupies chair 11 of the Mexican Academy of History.
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Picasso in Lezama’s Eye
Pablo Picasso, an awkward totem of the 20th century avant-garde, died in Mougins on April 8, 1973....
Opinion
Houellebecq and the reactionary revolution
Anéantir (2022), Michel Houellebecq's new novel, is -as it was also the case with his previous title...
Literature
Eltit, Bolaño and the New Constitution
A few years ago, on the centennial of the Querétaro Constitution, Mexican critic Vicente Quirarte compiled a...
Articles
Juan Villoro: The Unfathomable Criminality
Juan Villoro’s latest novel, entitled La tierra de la gran promesa, like the superlative translation of the...
Literature
Juan Gabriel Vásquez: Closed Circuits of the Cold War
In the rich and growing historiography on the Cold War in Latin America and the Caribbean, it...
Articles
Cintio Vitier: A Cuban fight against skepticism
It is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Cintio Vitier (1921-2009), a fundamental essayist and poet...
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Letters from Herralde
In the spring of 1969, in a brief stupor of Franco’s state of emergency, the publishing house...
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Albert Camus on the “Media Show”
Albert Camus' articles in Combat, newspaper of the French Resistance against Nazism, between 1943 and 1949, were...
