Essays   Planeta Argentina, 2007. 227 Pages

The paths  Fabián Casas sets out in Ensayos Bonsai are generally unpredictable: he can jump from Spinoza’s concept of power to an essay by Marcelo Cohen to Argentine letters and a bit further on to something Kurt Cobain found funny to the search for a shoeshop in a neighbourhood that was invisible until he needed it.

He can talk about  Borges’  El escritor argentino y la tradición, about Gombrowicz’ prologue to Ferdyduke and Arlt´s to  Los lanzallamas, all this topped off with his dog’s age-old instinct for conscientiously digging a well.

Football World Cups and rock stars, family and friends, the poetry of Eliot and Daniel Durand, film plots and the thoughts of philosophers…all of this has its part in these thirty-five essays.

There at the intersection of Oriental wisdom, rock ‘n roll, the ideals of messianic revolutionaries, the great poets of the Americas, and football emerges Casas’ writing: Zen Boedism.

“I am greatly stimulated by being told that one thing cannot be crossed with another”: Why not? Casas wonders.

“There cannot be any more interesting writers”. Roberto Giaccaglia, Word Press

“’Literature in Ensayos Bonsai is not a body that obstructs what is said, but a natural channel in which all this flow of poetry and life becomes written text…a book that reveals the story of a life and a world of generational readings”. Mauro Libertella, Página 12

“ The texts in this book include insightful reflections characteristic of the essay, evocations and dramatic events that could form part of a short story as well as traces and characters which are repeated, so we may well be talking about the missing links of a great future novel.” Josefina Ludmer

“An exceptional knack for quoting”. Elvio Gandolfo
Published by: Planeta Argentina

Essay. La Esfera de los Libros, Spain 2008. 350 pages

What is the sense of numbers? What does the golden ratio consist of? And number Phi? And the “Fibonacci sequences”? What are the origins of the music scales? What knowledge is hidden in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids, of the Greek temples or the Christian basilicas? What does Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Vitruvian Man” symbolize?

What do musicians, mathematicians, architects, painters, designers, engineers, biologists, philologists, geologists, priests and mystical theologists have in common? The answer is, whether they themselves know it or not, that they are all geometricians.

In a world like ours, where knowledge is excessively divided and specialised, the integrating capacity granted by geometry is the best alternative to achieve a unique and true universal understanding. Reality is in itself geometric, and unravelling its mystery will enable us to comprehend the order that rules in our universe.

Jaime Buhigas initiates us in a simple and charming way in Divine Geometry, and helps us find answers to all these fascinating historical questions and enigmas. “Don’t enter if you don’t know geometry” read a notice at Plato’s School door. In order to enter this book it is not necessary to have any previous knowledge.  The wish to learn is enough.

Published by: Spanish worldwide: La Esfera de los Libros