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| Revista de Libros | |
|---|---|
| Title | Revista de Libros |
| Category | Literary and cultural criticism |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Revista de Libros is a Spanish literary and cultural review that publishes criticism, essays, and interviews on books and intellectual life. Founded in Madrid, it has engaged with Spanish and international writers, scholars, and public figures, situating itself within debates involving literature, history, philosophy, and politics. The magazine has interacted with institutions, publishers, and cultural forums across Europe and Latin America.
The magazine emerged in the context of debates influenced by figures such as Miguel de Unamuno, Benito Pérez Galdós, José Ortega y Gasset, Federico García Lorca, and Antonio Machado, while responding to currents represented by Mariano José de Larra, Leopoldo Alas, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Ramón Pérez de Ayala. Early years saw contributions and references to international currents associated with George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Debates within the magazine reflected controversies involving Francisco Franco, the Transition, the 1978 Constitution, and cultural moments linked to La Movida Madrileña, Felipe González, Adolfo Suárez, Santiago Carrillo, and Manuel Fraga. Editorial choices have been shaped by comparative readings of texts associated with Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, Giacomo Leopardi, Dante Alighieri, Homer, Homer Simpson notwithstanding, and modern intellectuals such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, and Isaiah Berlin. Throughout its history the review engaged with publishing houses like Editorial Planeta, Anagrama, Alianza Editorial, Tusquets Editores, and Galaxia Gutenberg while participating in cultural festivals such as Hay Festival, Festival Internacional de Literatura de Barcelona, and forums at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
The editorial line blends considerations linked to authors such as Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Góngora, Borges, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Allende, and Pablo Neruda. Critical essays often reference philosophers and theorists including Plato, Aristotle, Søren Kierkegaard, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, and Karl Popper. The review covers literary history, modernist and postmodernist currents tied to Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, Orhan Pamuk, Elena Ferrante, and J. M. Coetzee. It publishes long-form reviews, comparative studies referencing Rene Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and contextually engages with events like World War I, World War II, Spanish Civil War, Cold War, and postcolonial debates associated with Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Published in Spanish from Madrid, the magazine has distribution networks involving bookstores such as Casa del Libro, FNAC, El Corte Inglés, and independent bookshops in cities like Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Malaga, Granada, Valladolid, and in Latin American capitals including Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago (Chile), Bogotá, Lima, Quito, Caracas, Montevideo, Asunción, and La Paz. It has collaborated with cultural institutions such as Instituto Cervantes, Real Academia Española, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Centro Dramático Nacional, Teatro Real, Palacio de Cibeles, and universities like Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de Granada, Universidad de Sevilla, and international partners including University of Oxford, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University, and Universität Heidelberg. Periodic special issues have addressed topics linked to publishers Penguin Books, Random House, HarperCollins, Faber and Faber, and collections like Biblioteca Breve.
The magazine's reception spans coverage in outlets such as El País, ABC, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, La Razón, El Periódico de Catalunya, Diario de Sevilla, El Correo, La Voz de Galicia, and international reviews in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, and The Washington Post. Its influence is noted in academic citations within journals like Hispania, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Revista de Occidente, and institutional bibliographies of Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The review has been discussed in relation to awards such as the Prince of Asturias Awards, Cervantes Prize, Premio Nacional de Literatura, Premio Planeta, Premio Nadal, Premio Herralde, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and Nobel Prize in Literature. Cultural impact extends to radio and television programs on Radio Nacional de España, Cadena SER, COPE, Televisión Española, LaSexta, and streaming conversations at venues like Biblioteca Pública Miguel de Cervantes and literary salons in Casa de América.
Contributors have included intellectuals, novelists, historians, and critics connected to names like Antonio Muñoz Molina, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Soledad Puértolas, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Fernando Savater, Javier Marías, Carmen Martín Gaite, Antonio Gamoneda, Álvaro Pombo, Emilio Lledó, María Zambrano, Victoria Camps, José Luis Sampedro, Fernando Rey, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and international figures such as Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Günter Grass, Orhan Pamuk (also mentioned above), V. S. Naipaul, Amos Oz, Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Amin Maalouf, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Ismail Kadare, Patrick Modiano, Annie Ernaux, Stephen Greenblatt, Tzvetan Todorov, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, and Daniel Kahneman. Notable interviews and profiles have featured politicians, intellectuals, and writers linked to José Saramago, Mario Benedetti, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes (mentioned above), Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Bolaño, Antonio Tabucchi, Ryszard Kapuściński, Svetlana Alexievich, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie (also above), Jorge Luis Borges (also above), and historians or public figures associated with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Eric Hobsbawm, Niall Ferguson, Orlando Figes, Mary Beard, Simon Schama, Juan Goytisolo, Pedro Almodóvar, Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Pau Casals, Enrique Vila-Matas, Clara Janés, and Lucía Etxebarria.
Category:Spanish literary magazines