The destruction of libraries and other essays

The destruction of libraries and other essays is a collection of miscellaneous literary essays in which personal reflection engages in dialogue with literature and the arts, based on specific aspects of everyday life and culture. The formal diversity of the texts ranges from the traditional essay (as conceived by Michel de Montaigne) to autobiographical texts, more conceptual or experimental proposals, and even aphorisms.

The text entitled "The Essay as Syntax" was originally published in July 2018 on the Tierra Adentro website. The text "The Limits of the Flesh" was published in issue 55 of Rio Grande Review magazine, dedicated to "Illness." Finally, "Nostalgia for Machines" was included in the anthology Ciudades aprehendidas y otros apegos. Ensayo literario joven en México (Veracruz Literary Institute, 2019). The rest of the texts had remained unpublished until now. This entire book was written during the author's stay as a fellow of the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas from 2017 to 2019.