Critics of the ‘Babelia’ review, in addition to the new publication about the Uruguayan writer, titles by Mario Cuenca Sandoval, Berna González Harbor, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, Sophy Roberts and Alicia Vallina.

The publishing of the ‘Cuentos completos’ by the Uruguayan writer Armonía Somers shows her desire to always be different, with a prose that can be both delicate and violent, but always mysterious and fascinating.

The stories of Armonía Somers (Pando, Uruguay, 1914-Montevideo, 1994) are aimed at a reader willing to play, interested in going beyond the obvious and one-dimensional. She was looking for it conscientiously, if we believe in what she stated during an interview with Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos in 1985, when she had already written practically all of her work: “There is always something more important than the anecdote, so often dispensable. I like that they trace that something else, because just as there is a profession of writing, there is also a profession of reading ”. It is not a naive statement: the profession of reading is manifested when the subject is indiscernible from the treatment, as it happens in the decisive part of the twentieth century narrative.

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