The Mexican writer Lucila Navarrete presents, in the form of an essay, a cycling autobiography

The Mexican graduate in communication science con journalism specialty and Doctor of Latin American Studies, Lucila Navarrete Turrent just published “Rotary Care” (Collection Viento y Arena, 2023), a book of essays that constitute a kind of cycling biography in which the author stands out the figure of his bike.

On this occasion, he forgets cultural journalism and, between pedaling and pedaling, navigates through texts that delve into the virtues of cycling.

Navarrete qualify your vehicle as “the most noble machines that mankind has invented” and from there, she reflects on subjects as dissimilar as motherhood while addressing the particularities of mobility in large cities and reflects on the possibilities of emancipation that the velocipede promotes.

In “Rotary Care” the author meticulously reviews cycling manuals, asks her “I’m riding a bike” and its impact on the identity and explores the links between letters and bicycles. This selection of essays gives you the opportunity to share ideas, books, music and films related to your object of inspiration.

The writer shared that all the texts were written during the pandemic, some with literary purposes oh journalisticwhile others seek only to exalt the bicycle, those where he is shown as a cyclist in front of a teacher, a writer, a journalist.

the author of “Rotary Care” is Professor and Doctor of Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Since 2016, he has been working as a journalist for local and national media such as house of time, ditches, Millennium, Lagoon, Avant-garde, network is power there the public square. He was three times winner of the State Award for Cultural Journalism who grants the Autonomous University of Coahuila in the categories article, chronicle and column.

She is the author of the books “Return from Silence” there “Rotary Care”. His first text brought together a series of works published in different media, conferences, book presentations, literary reviews and works published in different media, including an unpublished interview with the Cuban writer Elisha Albert.

Now with “Rotary Care” reaffirms that she is a writer focused on academics, especially essays, her fields of interest are Latin American literary criticism and theory and in this second publication she develops a relationship between the journalistic and the literary with the presence of the bicycle as a central axis.

Lucila Navarrete He has various publications in peer-reviewed and indexed journals, including the journal American notebookssthe magazine Southern furrow there Notebooks of Caribbean and Latin American literature. She is co-founder of the seminary Mobilities, borders and anthropological narrativesbased in the Dr José Maria Louis Mora Research Institutewhere he develops a research dissertation on mobility and migration in the thought of the Uruguayan critic angel branch.

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