Two biographies and a classic graphic novel reach bookstores

Perhaps for those associations to those who take a taste for the new and the love of poetry, Guillermo and Jorge Luis They met in a coffee in Madrid, when – like the century – they were twenty years old. This is the story of how two friends are no longer. Although they continue to see, because Guillermo marries Jorge’s sister, and with the brother -in -law, gentlemen, the relationship is something else.

Many of the criticisms that Jorge is kept, tells his friend Adolfo when he invites him to eat at home, and he writes them. Jorge and Guillermo’s is a relationship game of those “That imposes the mysterious order of chance when living”. Turos that make a writer until that moment failed to become a star of world literature, and a celebrated Fuste essayist leaves his creative impulse to put behind a desk at the service of cultural diffusion.

History could be called The brothers -in -lawbut those images are just an approach to “The order of chance”, The admirable biography of Guillermo de Torreand his life among the Borges -Jorge Luisthe giant of our letters, and Norahthe revalued Argentine artist- that after years of an endless investigation published the professor Ródenas de Moya. Work that recovers and vindica to Towerexciting, scholarly and revealing biography of secrets. It goes from the life of the protagonist to the cultural world that surrounds him.

Love and exile brought from Torre to Buenos Aires. He married Norah and for a while he lived at the Borges house. At 29 he had published a praised “History of avant -garde literature.” He was still a friend of Picasso, García Lorca, Buñuel, Gómez de la Sernanor to notice with Marinetti, Pound either Bretonamong others. But here it changed. Without leaving the literary critic, one of the most relevant of his time, became director and editor of publications. After creating the Austral collection for Espasa, it was the brain of the legendary Editorial Losada.

Old Republican had in his catalog his exile partners. Apart from Victoria Ocampo directed the south magazine. I never stop being attentive to the new. Commenting discrepancies with Borges, Ródenas de Moya maintains: Torre remained faithful to what “Art evolves thanks to the impulse of aesthetic exploration, to the courage of those who dare to transgress the limits of ankylosing language, often incapable artists of producing great works, but whose work of clearing and zapa is essential for the creators with more talent to reach perpetrable achievements”.

Guillermo de Torre serves Ródenas de Moya To discover and illuminate the two currents that encouraged the twentieth century, which values ​​rigor, precision and the best of the past, and the one that shares aesthetic insurrections and projects future.

*Domingo Ródenas de Moya, “The order of chance. Guillermo de Torre among the Borges” (Anagrama, Barcelona, ​​2025, 579 pp.)

The Oesterheld

“On April 29, one day before Netflix premiered the dramatic series’ The Eternalut To Darín, the sale increased.he points out Tomás Linchcomic editor, graphic novel and non -fiction of planet on Argentina.

In 2022 planet hired the cartoon of Héctor Oesterheldwhich later had various editions, began in 1957 in the magazine Hora Zero, illustrated by Francisco Solano López. The second and last stage was in 1969, when he began to leave in the people’s magazine, with drawings of Alberto Brecciaand he stopped publishing before the end “because he had mixed science fiction with him terror along with the very conjunctural,” he argued. If in the first stage Oesterheld Follow the Borgian, personal, cult of courage, in the second consider, by his experience, that no one is saved alone.

“Today in the bookstores there are two types of editions, the luxury and the economic one. We thought at the time and the readers. There were people who bought the book to get ahead and know that it was going to happen in the series, others to see the changes that had been made. The highest quality of the edition could be achieved thanks to the fact that Martín Oesterheld, filmmaker and grandson of the narrator, gave in Turin with the collector who had the originals, and that allowed us to scan. Point out Linchand add “By the editorial the book is in Spain, the United States in Spanish, and in Latin American countries”.

And from what is known about other countries, also in books “The Eternaluta” It is an international phenomenon. The American edition of Fantagraphics of “The Eternal”which conquered the Original Best Collection Award, and comments: “One of the most exciting comics that ever read” (The Guardian), “just like Tarantino makes poetry with trash cinema, Oesterheld builds a political allegory from a science fiction series” (Av Paste Media), “Borgian quality in a graphic novel” (The Boston Global).

What was achieved by the Netflix series, -which Jorge Carrión Gálvez considers “the first great Argentine world success” – made while “The Westheld” of Fernanda Nicolini and Alicia Beltramiextraordinary coral biography, remarkable research published by South American in 2016, returned the bookstores for the general and media conversation about the fate of the Oesterheldkidnapped and missing during the dictatorship (the writer, four daughters, three sons -and two grandchildren).

*Héctor Germán Oesterheld- Francisco Solano López “El Eternalauta” (Bs. As., Planet, 2025, 376 pages,)

*Fernanda Nicoilini and Alicia Beltrami “Los Oestreheld” (Bs.AS.; South American, 2025, 416 pages)