The Order of Forms

Victoria Baena is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her research focuses on the novel between realism and modernism across Europe and Latin America.

Victoria Baena

Institution Building: On Anna Kornbluh’s “The Order of Forms”

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Happiness, as Such

The Dry Heart

What Is Not Said: On Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart” and “Happiness, as Such”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

I Didn’t Talk

Revisions of Resistance in Beatriz Bracher’s “I Didn’t Talk”

Victoria Baena is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her research focuses on the novel between realism and modernism across Europe and Latin America.