Dragoman

Through Cervantes’s invented Arabic historian Cide Hamete Benengeli, the piece reads narrative memory as something mediated by authorship, transmission and translation rather than simply recorded.

Reviewing Gabriele Tergit’s The Effingers, Hofmann argues that even when characters blur, the novel can become an ideal way to understand social and cultural history.

This Italian piece frames Vercellone’s aesthetic philosophy around how images and the human body register the oppressions of time.

This French art essay sees af Klint’s movement between abstraction and figuration as an original symbolic vocabulary where fluidity unsettles oppositions.

This Spanish piece treats national myths as living material that persists through literature, folklore and nationalist imagination.