If there is a type of book that I really like but that unfortunately I hardly ever have time to read, it is those of test. Why do I say that I hardly ever have time to read them? Well, because I use them almost as a guide:
- I spend much more time with them than with a normal book.
- I like to read them slowly, writing down the sublime ideas that the author has had, either in a separate notebook or on the side of the book.
- I underline them, and sometimes, there are fragments that I read and reread several times.
- I look for essay books similar to the subject of the book I am reading at the time, etc.
Even so, I do not want to stop recommending you some of these books that are quite cutting edge today and are giving a lot to talk about (some more than others).
"School world upside down" (Eduardo Galeana)
- Author Eduardo galeano
- Genre: Essay
- Editorial: 2005st century, XNUMX
- ISBN: 9788432312076
Summary
One hundred and thirty years ago, after visiting Wonderland, Alice stepped into a mirror to discover the world upside down. If Alice were reborn in our days, she would not need to go through any mirror: she would just have to look out the window. At the end of the millennium, the world upside down is in sight: it is the world as it is, with the left to the right, the navel on the back and the head on the feet.
"The genealogy of morality" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Author Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Essay
- Editorial: Alliance, 2011
- ISBN: 9788420650920
Summary
The Genealogy of Morals is Friedrich Nietzsche's darkest and most cruel work. His first treatise deals with the contrast between the concepts of "good" and "bad", as well as the subsequent transformation of their meaning by the work of the Judeo-Christian interpretation. The second treatise analyzes bad conscience, whose cause in primitive times was guilt understood not in the sense of moral responsibility, but as equivalent to material debt. The last part, announcing the new ideal of the superman, analyzes the meaning of asceticism.
"Universal history of infamy" (Jorge Luis Borges)
- Author Jorge Luis Borges
- Genre: Essay
- Editorial: Destiny, 2004
- ISBN: 9788423336722
Summary
The seven stories that make up Historia universal de la infamia extract biographies and anecdotes from various cultural and geographical realities to transmute them, by the work of an allegorical will and a baroque expression, into a properly literary substance. The volume includes "Hombre de la Esquina Rosada", one of Borges' most celebrated pieces, and "Etcétera", six notes or glosses in which the astonishing culture that marks the borders of his literary space shines. Universal History of Infamy is possibly the book that most attracts readers, since all the stories are based on real criminals.
"For the pleasure of reading" (John Cruz Ruiz)
- Author Juan Cruz Ruiz placeholder image
- Genre: Essay
- Publisher: Tusquets Editores
Summary
Juan Cruz offers us a long conversation about the professional experience and life adventures of Beatriz de Moura, founder and editor of Tusquets Editores for 45 years. It recounts the origins, difficulties and successes to build a catalog and sustain it for decades. In short, an unusual editorial trajectory in our tradition is drawn, which is born from a vocation, but also from a taste for reading. What has made that catalog look like the young woman who at the end of the sixties decided to embark on that adventure? This book explains the keys, while tracing a first-person approach to recent literary and cultural history.
"Books and freedom" (Emilio Lledo)
- Author Emilio Lledo
- Genre: Essay
- Publisher: RBA
Summary
This volume brings together some of the most outstanding texts by Emilio Lledó on one of the essential manifestations of our ability to create, to recreate ourselves: books. Books preserve memory and, with it, the possibility of going out, from the gaze of each reader, locked in the moments of their own time, into the space of dialogue, of their liberation, of their freedom. Books, language, memory, dialogue, poetry, freedom: an incomparable gift, for the being that we are, for the being that we should be. This book helps us understand what reading is and what it is for.