False cosmopolitanism | Some Good Books

Synopsis:

Study of comparative history of intellectuals, first-rate literary research or family novel with Borges, this essay is based on the relentless review of the figure of Guillermo de Torre to illuminate the contradictions, paradoxes and tensions that, since 1927, such a statement still generates controversial as “Madrid, intellectual meridian of Latin America.” The concept of false cosmopolitanism is the backbone of these pages and synthesizes the inability of Spanish nationalism to understand American complexity, the true background of the entire controversy and still today a source of intellectual discord.

Author biography:

Antoni Martí Monterde (Torís, Valencia, 1968) is a professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Barcelona. He has published articles on Walter Benjamin, Victor Klemperer, Joan Fuster, Josep Pla, Eugeni d’Ors, Santiago Rusiñol, Peter Altenberg, Joan Estelrich and Charles Maurras, among others. He has edited and prefaced works by Xavier de Maistre (Journey around my room), Victor Klemperer (Essays, Culture), Ernst Robert Curtius (The German spirit in danger, Crisis of Humanism), Stefan Zweig (The World of 1914, Petita crónica) and Joseph Texte (Writings on Comparative Literature). As an essayist, JV Foix has published The Solitude of Writing (Premio Joaquim Xirau 1997), A European Dream. Intellectual History of Comparative Literature (2011), Løndstrup Lighthouse. Essay on moral memory spaces (2015). He has also published narrative: The erosion (2001, 2019), The erosion (2019). His latest books are Joan Fuster: The word essay (2019), Paris, Madrid, New York: Josep Pla’s distant cities (Joan Fuster Award, October Awards 2018), Stefan Zweig and the suicides of Europe (2020) , We the Europeans (2022) and Joseph Texte. A Sad History of Comparative Literature (2023). H&O Editores has published Poética del Café. A space of European literary modernity (2018).