Palos de la Crítica. Revista Trimestral: Nos. 1 (Julio/Septiembre 1980) to 5 (Junio/Agosto 1983) (all published).

Five issues in four fascicles, 135,343,192,199 pp., comprising a complete run of the Mexican literary - critical - philosophical journal, illustrated throughout. 8vo. Very good. Illus. stiff wraps. [1392]

A fascinating and much overlooked magazine founded and edited by Latin American leftist intellectuals including Bolivar Echeverria, Guy Rozat, Manuel Lavaniegos, Rafael Segovia, and Alan Arias. The journal is inflected with a darkly humorous and subversive spirit, leavening new Spanish-language translations of George Bataille, Ernst Bloch, Rudi Dutschke, and Max Horkheimer with original articles and works of graphic art by members of the Palos circle. Echeverria has remarked that the Palos collective sought to use the serial as a platform for cultural resistance in Latin America, in the search for an "alternative modernity, that is, a non-capitalist modernity." International collaborators and friends cited in the masthead include Henri Lefebvre, Armin Shoenberger, Luis Gómez, Michele Alban, Esther Cohen, and Paul Mattick. As of January 2022, we cannot locate a complete run of the serial in OCLC, with only scattered issues available at fewer than five institutions in North America.