Teoría de la gravedad
Leila Guerriero
NON FICTION | 2019 | 212 pages
In this collection of columns, published throughout the course of over five years in El País, Leila Guerriero—one of the greatest names in Latin American narrative journalism—positions herself in her sharp point of view. With her fierce and precise prose, the author dives into the subtle to shed light on the things that remain hidden within us, with the same wonder she uses to illuminate everyday reality.
What are these texts about? Among many other things, “the size of the barrenness in our hearts. About cabbage and kings and why the sea boils and whether or not pigs have wings. About the horror of love when it ends. About all the things that were made to be forgotten that we’ve never forgotten; the things that were made to never be forgotten (pain, dead loved ones, that afternoon on the sand), and that, however, we’ve forgotten forever.”
A collection of texts that, aside from forming a beautiful constellation of her memories, readings, and reflections, hits the reader with the force of the best literature.
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“Guerriero writes with an extraordinary ease. Everything flows (...) She is, perhaps, the best journalist in Latin America. (...) A great writer.”
“Linguistic architecture that is elevated with mastery. (...) This isn’t a book to forget oneself and float in faraway places—it’s a book that makes us fall right into the center of our own existence.”
“You may not know it yet, but you need to read Leila Guerriero.”
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La llamada
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Zona de obras
ESSAYS, 2014/2022
La otra guerra
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Frutos extraños
NONFICTION, 2009/2020
Teoría de la gravedad
ESSAYS, 2019
Opus Gelber
NONFICTION, 2019
Plano americano
NONFICTION, 2013/2018
Una historia sencilla
NONFICTION, 2013
Los suicidas del fin del mundo
NONFICTION, 2004