“…This book analyzes the process of building the space that permeates the novels São Bernardo (1934), by the Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953), and Pedro Páramo (1955), written by the Mexican Juan Rulfo (1918-1986), explaining the analogies and contrasts between the two works, from the perception that both project, in the process of building space, places that reveal social, psychological and existential conflicts of man in confrontation with his origin and destiny. …”

“…In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists re-set its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953. What pushed its hands was, however, not just the threat of nuclear weapons, but also other global environmental risks that the Bulletin judged to have risen to the scale of the nuclear, including climate change and innovations in the life sciences…”