HACIA LA NOVELA COMO CRITICA!
wildly grateful to @pavelandrade.bsky.social for the honor of his Spanish translation of this essay from the 50th anniversary of NOVEL: A FORUM ON FICTION, about the novel's intrinsic faculty for critique @novelforum.bsky.social
revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/nu...
A page from Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. Quote reads: Work needn't be suffering, it could unite folks. A bright child like Chester might thrive and prosper, as Molly and her friends did. A mother raise her daughter with love and kindness. A beautiful soul like Caesar could be anything he wanted here, all of them could be: own a spread, be a schoolteacher, fight for colored rights. Even be a poet. In her Georgia misery she had pictured freedom, and it had not looked like this. Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare.
Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare.
currently writing a book on the countertopographical imagination of the Mexican novel of the long sixties
is this a first as tragedy, then as farce-type situation
