Review: Incas, Spies, and Astronauts.
Essays and Nonfiction Prose by Rafael Dumett. Lima: Debate (Penguin Random House)
Abstract
In Incas, Spies, and Astronauts, Rafael Dumett brings together a series of essays, nonfiction prose pieces, and personal reflections that dialogue with his well-known novels The Inca’s Spy and Comrade Jorge and the Dragon. The volume is organized around three thematic axes: counterfactual histories as a tool for interrogating historical trajectories; the figure of the spy as an ambiguous actor situated between individual loyalty and the state; and the exploration of space as a metaphor for free thought in adverse contexts.
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