The most beautiful love letters in Spanish, the memories of Marguerite Duras and other books of the week

Dorothy Allison is 73 years old today and lives with her wife in California.

When she published her first book, she was compared to both Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Harper Lee.

It was said that he described a southern post-gothic southern gothic or, better, an unfiltered southern gothic, which actually inaugurated, in some way, what we know today as

Her first book, this Bastard, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 1992, was a powerful yet uncomfortable

in which she herself, turned into the tough Ruth Anne, the daughter of a 15-year-old , makes its way to blows of all kinds in America in the fifties, nothing idyllic for those who had left the American dream in the ditch.

Felisberto Hernández was a man with a complex personality, judging not only from the testimonies collected, but also from what was expressed in his work.

Without yet having a comprehensive biography, it is known that he was marked by a harsh and authoritarian childhood where his main references were two women, his mother and his grandmother.

The first overprotected him, while the second treated him with a harshness that the writer would never forget.

Felisberto needed female protection and believed he fell in love over and over again, as is proven by the fiery love letters gathered in the correspondence we are discussing,

's critics

are reviewing outstanding titles this week such as

by the Chilean Mercedes Valdivieso, a text on female emancipation of enormous modernity and courage both for its date of publication, 1961, and for the country of author's birth

In

, Álvaro Enrigue abounds in history and its echoes;

and

, by José Balza, is a novel that refers to the possibility of remembering the future.

More titles?

The poetic anthology

the collection of poems by Pere Gimferrer

essays on language

by Mariano Sigman and

by Ramón Alemán and the memoirs of Marguerite Duras,

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