Books of the month — January 2023
Four books, briefly reviewed: Houellebecq's Annihilation, Arturo Barea's The Forging of a Rebel, Jorge Wagensberg, and Carlos Elías on digital civilisation.
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Annihilation. Michel Houellebecq. I enjoyed it from the first page to the last. My only complaint was wanting more. Or wanting to read it again.
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The Forging of a Rebel. Arturo Barea. A phenomenal novel. Although it is part of a trilogy, it reads perfectly well on its own. Beautiful.
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Si la naturaleza es la respuesta ¿cuál era la pregunta? Jorge Wagensberg. Part short essay, part collection of aphorisms. I enjoyed it, and above all I have kept it as a reference to return to, pick something up, and chew on it.
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El selfie de Galileo. Carlos Elías. A good analysis of the challenges posed by everything we call digital civilisation. It helped me go deeper into several topics I had already read about in articles and essays by this professor of journalism, who refreshes many questions about science, truth and information by passing them through the sieve of the digital.