By CELSO FREDERICO: The First Congress of Soviet Writers echoed as a paradox: a song of artistic freedom under the shadow of socialist realism. Bukharin, with his defense of plurality, and Gorky, with his revolutionary romanticism, symbolized the tension between creation and control.
By ADELTO GONÇALVES: Recent work by English historian Kenneth Maxwell recovers the history of the reconstruction that London, Lisbon and Paris underwent
By CELSO FREDERICO: Under Stalin, Soviet literature underwent a metamorphosis, where artistic creation was directed to serve the construction of socialism, resulting in a literary production marked by monotony and political propaganda.
By URARIAN MOTA: The next time you meet a poet, remember: he is not a monument, but a fire. His flames do not light up halls — they burn out in the air, leaving only the smell of sulfur and honey. And when he is gone, you will miss even his ashes.
By JORGE LUIS BORGES: Irish genius in Western culture does not derive from Celtic racial purity, but from a paradoxical condition: dealing splendidly with a tradition to which they owe no special allegiance. Joyce embodies this literary revolution by transforming Leopold Bloom's ordinary day into an endless odyssey
By ANNATERESA FABRIS & MARIAROSARIA FABRIS: Considerations on Anna Bella Geiger as a video artist, on the occasion of her retrospective exhibition in São Paulo, which presents this lesser-known facet of her work
