David Huerta believes in the subversive mood of people who read books. The certainty that there is something revolutionary in the reader's relationship with the written page animates this collection of essays and reviews, published between 2001 and 2008 in the supplement Sheet by Sheet, clear examples of how yesterday's works can be placed at the juncture present or what must be done to turn an isolated paragraph, an orphan verse, into the key to understanding a fragment of reality. With ingenuity and skill, these messages from another world are a loving invitation to reread Shakespeare, Whitman, Quevedo, Gorostiza, Rulfo, Lezama Lima and García Márquez, among many others, and to reassess comics, dictionaries, self-demanding criticism, the translation. As Huerta has expressed regarding an admired colleague, “the lessons of a book are or can be, at the same time, the subject of a teaching and the object of a literary journey: the reader becomes a student, reading becomes intellectual enlightenment ”. Check out this volume to see for yourself.

"Huerta introduces us to the dialogue of books through a conversational [...] and playful language, precise and with winks of humor in not a few passages. Although he sometimes speaks of scholarly books, he does not resort to the terminologies that academics almost always use of carnival way. "
Felipe Vázquez

"Thus the books: they go away and we stay to read, reread, do utopian reading projects (impossible to fulfill). But also to remember those we read, and to forget them and to think that impunity will always have its addictive materials not far from our hands, from our eyes, from the days that are gone. "
David Huerta