Mauro Javier Cardenas

Sep 19, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Mauro Javier Cardenas |Julio Cortázar |Carlos Fonseca

You could waste hours—and, potentially, your life—searching the writer Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s sophomore novel Aphasia (2020) for a sentence that clocks in at under a thousand words. In works like Aphasia (2021) and The Revolutionaries Try Again (2016), Cárdenas has evolved a philosophy of the long sentence uniquely suited to his investigations of community, identity, memory, intertextuality, the narrativization of trauma, and more.

May 4, 2024 | entertainment-mag.com | Mauro Javier Cardenas

AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, by Mauro Javier CárdenasIn this brief, intricate novel on deportations of Latin Americans during the regime of a U.S. president called Racist in Chief, Mauro Javier Cárdenas creates what I’ll call an art-polemic — a melding of play with political purpose. From it, the cruelty of American immigration policy emerges: How else to capture such surreal inhumanity other than with the intractable capacities of art?

May 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Mauro Javier Cardenas

AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, by Mauro Javier CárdenasIn this brief, intricate novel on deportations of Latin Americans during the regime of a U.S. president called Racist in Chief, Mauro Javier Cárdenas creates what I'll call an art-polemic - a melding of play with political purpose. From it, the cruelty of American immigration policy emerges: How else to capture such surreal inhumanity other than with the intractable capacities of art?

Jan 12, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Nick Hilden |Valeria Luiselli |Mauro Javier Cardenas |Chuck Palahniuk

We’re attempting to unravel the tangled web of literary influence by talking with the great writers of today about the writers of yesterday who inspired them. This month, we spoke with two standout figures from the Latin American avant-garde. Mexican author Valeria Luiselli (Lost Children Archive, The Story of My Teeth) explores the new translation of Juan Rulfo’s landmark text Pedro Paramo.

May 18, 2023 | brazosbookstore.com | Mauro Javier Cardenas

American Abductions (Paperback) Product Details ISBN: 9781628975185 ISBN-10: 1628975180 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Publication Date: February 27th, 2024 Pages: 350 Language: English Categories