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Field of Battle
The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario, establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control. In times of war the law is silent. —from Field of Battle Field of Battle presents the world today as nothing less than a war in progress, with Mexico an illustrative microcosm of the developing geopolitical scenario: a battlefield in which violence, drug trafficking, and organized crime—as well as the alegal state that works alongside all of this in the guise of fighting against it—hold sway. The rule of law has been replaced by the dominance of alegality and the rise of the “a-state.” This war scenario is establishing a form of global governance...
The Femicide Machine
An account and analysis of the systematic murder of women and girls in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez. In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn't just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guarantee impunity for those crimes and even legalize them. A lawless city sponsored by a State in crisis. The facts speak for themselves. —from The Femicide Machine Best known to American readers for his cameo appearances as The Journalist in Roberto Bolano's 2666 and as a literary detective in Javier Marías's novel Dark Ba...
The Iguala 43
Examines the disappearance and presumed murder of forty-three students in Iguala, Mexico, in 2014.
The Sorrows of Mexico
With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient p...
El vuelo
Una novela situada en México a inicios de la década de 1960, cuyos ejes temáticos son el narcotráfico, la decadencia social y las encrucijadas de la identidad. Rafael Asunción Vizcaya es un traficante de cocaína del barrio La Merced y trabaja para El Señor, quien es comprador de droga en Panamá. El Señor debe transportar grandes cantidades de droga desde aquel país sureño, y para ello lleva miles de dólares, un nombre y un domicilio en un papel escritos a lápiz dentro de su pasaporte. Esta novela, que se nos presenta como desconcertante y onírica, es también una inmersión a los horrores y excesos de una época.
El hombre sin cabeza
Una pesquisa insólita y un tejido narrativo de múltiples resonancias culturales y políticas sobre el clímax de la violencia en el mundo contemporáneo: las decapitaciones que realizan los sicarios del tráfico de drogas en México, o los fundamentalistas musulmanes, ambas difundidas por internet u otros medios, donde el acto de decapitar representa la pérdida de la razón en su sentido más extenso. El autor estudia también los fenómenos de la brujería y los sacrificios humanos vinculados a los traficantes de drogas, el uso de los cuerpos de las víctimas con mensajes crueles de gran alcance. Y la emergencia de un culto criminal como el de la Santa Muerte. Una crónica que presenta incluso el testimonio de un sicario y cortador de cabezas, y entrelaza la perspectiva del propio narrador a través de su refinada alternancia de la crónica, el ensayo y los apuntes autobiográficos. Este libro deja en claro que la materia periodística puede acceder al estatuto de historia contemporánea, y ésta transformarse a su vez en una práctica literaria de carácter excepcional.
Dark Back of Time
From one of Spain's greatest writers—and the international bestselling, award-winning author of The Infatuations—comes an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time that weaves together fact and fiction into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. "Stylish, cerebral...Marías is a startling talent...His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate." —The New York Times Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"—the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves"—fiercely maintain to be a roman à clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed," Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marías weaves together autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico.
The Iliac Crest
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.
Vamos a la vida
Cuando se cumple un año de la ausencia de Sergio González Rodríguez (03 de abril de 2018) en nuestras vidas y de la falta que nos hace el amigo, su complicidad vital y su deseo imparable de escribir la verdad del país y decirla, queremos difundir y acercar a todos los que lo siguen extrañando y a los que no lo conocen estasencilla compilación de textos que algunos de sus amigos leímos en público el 25 de abril de 2017, pocos días después de su muerte y ante la presencia de su querida familia en primera fila. El acto de despedida y homenaje tuvo lugar en el Museo de la Memoria y Tolerancia de Ciudad de México y fue para todos nosotros un encuentro personal y colectivo con Sergio, quien murió de "su propia muerte" (Rilke) en un país de desaparecidos.
Violence and Naming
Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array of literary artifacts, from works by journalists such as Elena Poniatowska and Sergio González Rodríguez to the Zapatista communiqués to Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and 2666, this examination demonstrates that Mexican culture takes place as a struggle over naming—with severe implications for the rights and lives of women and indigenous persons. Through rereadings of the Conquest o...
