Libros raros y de uso
Jorge Enrique Lage
FICTION | 2023 | 132 pages
Like within the shredded pages of an artist’s workbook, Jorge Enrique Lage collects the flows and fluids of a blond Cuban-American writer’s diary—traces and pieces of literary texts, radioactive particles of pop culture, splinters of her own work and (perhaps) her biography. A delirious novel that takes place in the Cuba Científica bookstore, and in a Havana where the Castros aren’t even “rumored” enemies—Libros raros y de uso becomes a colloid. Lage’s papers and mixed media operate not only within art and literature criticism: through fiction, they could appear on the market as a conceptual piece. All they need is a cunning gallery owner.
—Ahmel Echevarría
RIGHTS: spanish CASA VACÍA
“In a line by Charles Bukowski, death is being unable to drink a glass of water. When changes finally come to a Havana that has never changed, this rare (and by then used) book will still be there. The most tender testament of a Cuba that is as scientific as Castroism. Saurioliterature printed on an amber sheet. An anachronistic read that asks us, ‘What are you doing here?’ and answers its own question: ‘Take a sip of water, see if it tastes different.’”
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