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A view of a blank wall within a bookshop that has an interior window through which books and shelves filled with books in the next room are visible, to the left are two framed hand-drawn portraits. — *Fig 1. At the Wilborada 1047 Bookshop in Bogotá.*

Blood in the Machine (Brian Merchant). Resisting at the altar of automation.
La casa de Bernarda Alba (F. García Lorca). The grip of conformity.
Le città invisibili (Italo Calvino). A ruler and an explorer imagine empire.
Den allvarsamma leken (H. Söderberg). Love in Dear Old Stockholm.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt). The banality of evil.
L'Étranger (Albert Camus). Ennui, the sun, a revolver.
Faithful and Virtuous Night (Louise Glück). A journey, a winding path.
Heart Lamp (Banu Mushtaq). The coarse twists and turns of life.
L'Homme-au-Bâton (Ernest Pépin). Guadeloupe, haunted by violence.
The Invisible Computer (Donald Norman). When computers take-over.
An Island to Oneself (Tom Neale). Is no man an island?
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison). Exile and personhood in Black America.
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë). Hardship, freedom in the Moorlands.
King Lear (William Shakespeare). Folly, tempests, responsibility?
Madame Bovary (G. Flaubert). Naïvité and caprice, easy prey to disillusion.
Les misérables (Victor Hugo). Injustice, redemption, sin, sewage.
La muerte de Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes). Ambition and revolution.
Le mythe de Sisyphe (Albert Camus). A life lucidly lived.
Il nome della rosa (U. Eco). Within a labyrinthic library, the forbidden fruit.
The Passions and the Interests (A. Hirschman). Sin, virtue, capital.
Salón de belleza (Mario Bellatin). Epidemics, fish tanks, and limbo.
Solange (Willy Kyrklund). When one only wants to dance.
Space Invaders (Nona Fernández). Childhood and dictatorship in Chile.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (R. Pirsig). Chautauquas.

Selected Short Stories

"Axolotl" (Julio Cortázar).
"La forma dello spazio" (Italo Calvino).
"El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan" (Jorge Luis Borges).
"La luz es como el agua" (Gabriel García Márquez).
"La spirale" (Italo Calvino).