The Rescue of a Literary Bible: the New Life of Henry Lihn's Critical and Acute Gaze

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It was the strangeness of the absence of the friend that prompted the writer Germán Marin to make a compilation of the critical work of Enrique Lihn Carrasco. He died of cancer in July 1988, and Marín, one of his great close friends in the literary world, realized that a vacuum was created that was difficult to fill. “He understood beforehand that he would miss the close friend and that the size of his absence, as he went through the places of o…