Jose enrique san juan puerto rico: Jose Enrique – Restaurant Review

Interview with José Enrique, Chef + Owner of El Blok| A Hotel Life

• WHAT DO YOU DO AND HOW DID YOU GET HERE?

  I don’t really know anymore, I guess I make people eat, drink, and have fun.

• TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT EL BLOK – HOW DID YOU COME TO BE INVOLVED IN THE HOTEL?

  A guy walked into my bar! Seriously though, I met the owner (Simon Baeyertz) when he arrived in Puerto Rico and we became best friends. He was still building El Blok and eventually I had to tell him that the burger at the beach concept wasn’t great, in return he made me get involved. It was the best decision for both of us…

• EL BLOK IS CERTAINLY A DESIGN FORWARD HOTEL… HOW WAS THIS CONSIDERED IN THE CREATION OF THE RESTAURANT, MENU & EXPERIENCE?

  As usual for me, the space comes first – so it shaped what I wanted to do food-wise. Ultimately, the menu reflects and in turn helps creates the feeling of the hotel.

• WAS HOSPITALITY SOMETHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO DO? WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE GROWING UP? 

  Hospitality has always been in my family and I’m still thinking about what to be. Or perhaps just waiting to grow up.

• WHO OR WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST INSPIRATION IN THE INDUSTRY? 

  Marco Pierre White for his attitude. And really my day to day life is my greatest inspiration!

• DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE HOTEL IN THE WORLD? 

  Well, I love The Gallery Inn in San Juan, it was always my getaway for a staycation. Hard question…whenever I travel it’s a different vibe. I like the Bowery in New York and I just got to stay at Golden Eye in Jamaica – that’s a new favorite.

• A CULINARY EXPERIENCE CAN MAKE OR BREAK A TRIP – ANY MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES IN YOUR TRAVELS? 

  It’s true, like Brooklyn Fare and Maison Premiere make the trip to Brooklyn worthwhile, haha. But really memorable experiences are those that you don’t expect at all. If you expect something to be great and it is, it’s not as memorable as when you don’t expect anything! Wandering alone in Bogota, hungover, hungry and I walk into a local restaurant and have an amazing Ajiaco soup – that’s memorable!

• WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHANGE YOU’VE SEEN IN THE INDUSTRY?

  With the rise of foodie and chef culture somehow we’ve lost the right to party!

• IF YOU COULD COOK FOR ANYONE, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE? 

  Well, they’re not dead or alive but I’ld die to cook for Talking Heads and if ever there had been a chance Ismael Rivera ( Puerto Rican musician, singer, writer).

• WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING TEN YEARS FROM NOW? 

  Surfing somewhere

Chef Jose Enrique, the Man Behind Puerto Rico’s Local Food Renaissance – Bon Appétit

Chef Jose Enrique grew up in a beachfront apartment in Puerto Rico, where he dusted sand off his feet before entering and frequently enjoyed 20-person meals home-cooked by his grandmother. Now, with Jose Enrique Restaurante, Miel, Capital, and other restaurants in San Juan and Vieques under his belt, he’s earned an avid following at home and on the mainland. Equipped with a flexible whiteboard menu and an obsession with fresh ingredients, Enrique’s putting a face to a movement that champions local eating and farming on an island flush with resorts and rainforests—but few restaurants serving fine Puerto Rican food.

What was eating in Puerto Rico like growing up?
Before I was born, my Cuban grandparents had a restaurant in Puerto Rico—in San Juan, in the Santurce neighborhood—in the 1960s. Growing up, food was a part of everything. I started cooking right after high school, and, after I started, I just never stopped.

What’s your favorite thing to cook?
For myself, I’ll make something if I’m going somewhere—just bread, cheese, and hot sauce, or something. When you’re cooking everyday, you don’t really want to cook in your house. My favorite things to cook are actually braises and soups because, as a cook, that’s where you really get your hands into it. But what you usually see in my restaurants is the opposite of that. Because, the truth is: I can’t improve on nature. I try to get the best ingredients around and not to mess with them at all. Put on some salt, put it on a pan, and that’s it.

Dianne Pulliza

Chef Jose Enrique. Photo: Dianne Pulliza

What are those best ingredients?
If you cook with what’s around, everything makes a lot more sense. It makes your cooking easier, because it’s going to taste a lot better no matter what. How’s anything going to be better than a tomato that was picked three hours ago? The problem is that, in Puerto Rico, agriculture was killed for a long time. So, you’re just now seeing people getting into growing; that movement’s starting. It’s still not at the point where I can have my menu be 100 percent local. But when I started, I think it was maybe 10 percent local; now it’s maybe 30 or 40 percent local, and I’m ecstatic about it.

What do you mean when you say that farming was killed?
Basically, what happened when the U.S. took over Puerto Rico: If you take away farming and agriculture from Puerto Ricans, now they become dependent. Now you have an island that has to buy everything from elsewhere. And, on top of that, with the Jones Act, not only do I have to buy from you because I don’t grow anything here, but I have to buy only from you—from ships from the U.S. that are U.S.-crewed, U.S.-flagged, U.S.-built. You’re stuck. That’s all you have.

What’s it like now?
Thankfully, now there’s a resurgence of people starting to farm. Puerto Rico’s very fertile. You have rainforests left and right; water along the coast; and mountains are 20 minutes away. The island has great land. Then you have all these young hippied-out kids who are just, ya know, living off the land, man. I told them to just start bringing me whatever they have. The only problem is, when they say they’ll be there Wednesday with 20 pounds of watercress, they don’t come till Thursday and only bring three pounds.

Dianne Pulliza

Colirubia, Jose Enrique-style. Fish is Enrique’s favorite protein to cook with, “because there’s just so much there.” Photo: Dianne Pulliza

What do you do when that happens?
The way that my restaurant runs in San Juan, I have a whiteboard menu that’s written down according to whatever I happen to have. If sardines come in, then sardines are going right on the menu. My boys have gotten accustomed to cooking like that. Really, the fact that it ever came off the boat is the crazy thing.

How do you get other Puerto Ricans on board with your philosophy?
Puerto Rican locals are easy. Whenever you say something is del país, they automatically want that. It’s hard to get a variety of things, though. For a while it was just aji dulce and lettuce that were local, but it’s not until you have variety and more things to buy that it’s exciting.

Jose Enrique

Inside Jose Enrique restaurant, which opened in San Juan in 2007. Photo: Dianne Pulliza

What would the Puerto Rican food scene look like in your dream world?
In my dream world, I’d want there to just be more Puerto Rican food at restaurants. If you go to France, what are you going to eat? French food. In Puerto Rico, so many restaurants aren’t Puerto Rican. There’s always going to be space for Italian, French, and Thai food, but we should be proud of our Puerto Rican food. It’s like, this is actually what people want to eat, so give it to them.

One thing most people don’t know about you.
I’m really good at the beach. There’s too much sun at 11 a.m., so I go around 1 p.m. then stay there till 5, 6, or 7 p.m. Always go with a beach chair, not a towel. You need a big cooler with beer, rose, and rum and coke for my dad. Then snacks: I like cheddar and sour cream Ruffles; my dad does these huge sandwiches with Serrano, gouda cheese, mustard, and pickles; and there’s always chicken salad. Music is also a huge must.

What kind of music?
I’m a huge Talking Heads fan. The Police and The Rolling Stones are also great on the beach. That whole combination right there is it.

We love Puerto Rican food, especially this mofongo.

You got yourself a whole fresh fish.

Now what?

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Andrey Fedorovich Kofman

Gorky Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Doctor of Philology. Sciences

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Academic biography

Born on 08/17/1954 in Moscow.

1971 – 1976 – studies at the Romano-Germanic Department of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University.

1976 – 1979 – postgraduate study at the Department of Foreign Literature of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University.

1982 – candidate of philological sciences. Dissertation: “Artistic originality of song lyrical genres of Mexican folklore”.

1980 – 1986 – member of the professional committee of writers at the publishing house. “Soviet writer”. Since 1984 – Chairman of the section of criticism, literary criticism and art history. nine0003

From 1986 to the present – member of the Institute of World Literature. A.M. Gorky RAS.

Since 1986 – Junior Researcher, since 1988 – Researcher, since 1992 – Senior Researcher, since 1998 – Leading Researcher.

1999 – Doctor of Philology. Dissertation: “Latin American artistic image of the world.”

Since 2008 – Head of the Department of Modern European and American Literature.

Since 2016 – Deputy Director for Research. nine0003

Participation in scientific societies and editorial boards.

Member of the Bureau of the Commission for the Comprehensive Study of the Culture of the Peoples of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.

Member of the Association of Russian Latin Americans.

Member of the editorial board of the journal Latin America.

Awards

Foreign Literature Award in 1991 for a story about Octavio Paz.

Latin America Magazine Award for a series of articles “Knights of the New World” (2004).

Laureate of the Russian National Prize “Cherished Dream” in the field of children’s literature (2006) for the novel “Tierra Adelante!” (M., 2003).

Bibliography

Books

Latin American artistic image of the world. M.: Nasledie, 1997. 318 p. Abstract

Chapters in collective works

Creole folklore. // History of Literature in Latin America. From the War of Independence to the Completion of National State Consolidation (1810-1870s). M., “Science”, 1989. C. 552-582.

Literature of Puerto Rico. // There. C. 267-275.

Literature of Venezuela. // History of Literature in Latin America. Late 19th – early 20th century. (1880 – 1910s). M., “Heritage”, 1994. S. 306-340.

Literature of Colombia and Panama. // There. pp. 341-377.

Literature of Peru. // There. pp. 378-416.

Literature of Ecuador. // There. pp. 417-430.

Literature of Bolivia. // There. pp. 431-461.

Literature of Chile. // There. pp. 462-492.

Literature of Uruguay. // There. pp. 534-578.

Literature of Mexico. // History of Literature in Latin America. XX century: 20 – 90s. Part one. M., “IMLI RAN”, 2004. S. 107-195.

Literature of the countries of Central America. // There. pp. 196-266.

Literature of Paraguay. // History of Literature in Latin America. XX century: 20 – 90s. Part two. M., “IMLI RAN”, 2004. S. 135-173.

Juan Rulfo. // History of Literature in Latin America. Essays on the work of writers of the twentieth century. M., “IMLI RAN”, 2005. S. 450-479.

Carlos Fuentes. // There. pp. 480-541.

Octavio Paz. // There. pp. 352-405.

Primitivism. // Artistic landmarks of literature of the twentieth century. M., “IMLI RAN”, 2001. 112-157.

Primitivist component of avant-gardism. // Avant-garde in the culture of the twentieth century. 1900-1930. Theory. History. Poetics. M., IMLI RAN, 2010. S. 157-228.

Harlem Renaissance // US Literary History. T.6. Book. 2. M., IMLI RAN, 2013. P. 490-545.

Articles in collective works

The artistic originality of the Latin American novel in the evaluation of literary criticism. // Modern problems of the novel in Soviet and foreign literary criticism. M., 1984.

Philosophical aspects of Nezahualcoyotl’s lyrics. // Historical fate of the American Indians. M., “Nauka”, 1985. S. 98-106.

Argentine tango and Russian bourgeois romance. // Literature in the context of culture. M., “Nauka”, 1986. S. 220-233. nine0003

Some problems of Creole folklore. // The problem of national identity and literature of the colonial era. M., IMLI, 1987. S. 100-106.

Spanish copla in Latin America. // Art of Latin America. M., “Nauka”, 1986. S. 39-68.

Mexican romantic song: on the question of the connections between Latin American folklore and literature. // Literature of Latin America: history and modern processes. Moscow Institute of Latin America, 1986. pp. 6-30

The problem of “magic realism” in the Latin American novel. // Modern novel. Research experience. M., “Science”, 1990. S. 183-200.

The fate of the Spanish romance in Latin America. // Iberica Americans. Cultures of the Old and New Worlds in their interaction. SPb. “Nauka”, 1991.

On the specifics of relations between Creole folklore and literature. // Professional art and folk culture of Latin America. M., Russian Institute of Art History, 1993. S. 43-78.

Artistic image of the Latin American space. // Iberica americans. Mechanisms of culture formation in Latin America. M., “Science”, 1994. S. 88-113.

African element in the culture of Latin America. // Cultures of Africa in the world civilizational process. M., “Eastern Literature”, 1996. S. 254-281.

Adamism is a constant of the Latin American artistic consciousness. // Iberica Americans. Type of creative personality in Latin American culture. M., “Heritage”, 1997. S. 164-171.

Alejo Carpentier: Latin American writer between two worlds. – Right there. pp. 120-131.

Cruel romance. // Encyclopedia “Russian Literature”. M.,

Avanta+, 1998, pp. 112-117.

Mexican Day of the Dead and its cultural role. // Iberica Americans. Holiday in Iberoamerican culture. M., “Heritage”, 2002. S. 229-246.

The fate of the genre: a costumbrist essay in Spain and Latin America. // Iberica. To the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote. St. Petersburg, “Nauka”, 2005. S. 202-212.

Carnival in Rio.// Carnivals. Holidays. M., “The World of Encyclopedias”, 2005. S. 29-37.

Carnival of death. // There. pp. 52-55. nine0003

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Surrealism. M., 2007. Articles:

O. Paz S. 365-367.

L. Cardoza y Aragon C. 229-231.

A. Carpentier S. 231-232.

“Contemporaneos”. pp. 254-255.

M.A. Asturias. pp. 40-41.

R. Sinan. pp. 447-448.

Culturology. Encyclopedia. M., “Rospann”, 2007. Articles:

Latin American culture. T.1. pp. 1104-1120.

Magic realism. T.1. 1210-1211.

Negr. T.2. 27-28. nine0003

Latin American civilization community in the globalizing world. T 1-2. M., 2007. Speeches in discussions. Commentary anthology.

Features of the formation of the artistic language of Latin American literature. // Literature in the cultural-historical and linguistic context. M., “Soviet writer”, 2008.

Iberoamerica in the world civilizational process. Presentation at the discussion. // Iberica Americans. Latin American Culture in the Discussions of the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries. M., IMLI RAN, 2009.

The conquistador and the mastery of the space of the New World. // Iberica Americans. Latin American Culture in the Discussions of the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries. M., IMLI RAN, 2009. S. 277-299.

The problem of synthesis in Latin American culture. // Iberica Americans. Latin American Culture in the Discussions of the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries. M., IMLI RAN, 2009. S. 392-403.

Avant-gardism and work with the word. // Faces of time. Moscow, Moscow State University, pp. 271-286. 2009.

Features of the formation of the artistic language of Spanish American literature. // Ibero-romanistics in the modern world. Scientific paradigm and actual problems. M., “Max-press”, 2010. S. 64-65. nine0003

Spanish conquistador: a personality at the crossroads of eras, spaces and cultures. // Issues of Ibero-Romanistics. Issue 11. M., “Max-press”, 2011. S. 16-28.

The role of the stereotype in the development of the artistic language of Spanish American literature. // Cultural-historical paradigm and language processes. M. , 2011. S. 372-402.

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. M., 2011. V. 2. 18 articles:

Landa Diego de; Montejo Francisco de; Nunez de Balboa Vasco; Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Alvar; Ordaz Diego de; Orellana Francisco de; Alonso de Ojeda; Pizarro brothers; Ponce de Leon Juan; Sahagun Bernardino de; Sarmiento de Gamboa; Soto Hernando de; Cieza de Leon Pedro de; Federman Nikolaus; Fernandez de Oviedo and Valdes Gonzalo; Jimenez de Quesada Gonzalo; Ercilla y Zúñiga Alonso de. nine0003

Great Russian Encyclopedia. Articles: Nicaragua literature; Paz Octavio; Roa Bastos Augusto; Rodo José Enrique.

The Image of Russia in Spanish American Literature. Film “”At the Turning Point”: the Image of Russia Past and Present in the Culture and Literature of Europe and America (late 20th – early 21st centuries)”. M., “New Chronograph”, 2011. S. 540-599.

Articles for the Encyclopedia of Latin America. M., ed. “Economics”, 2013:

The era of the conquest. pp. 60-63.

Latin American Literature. pp. 287-293.

Guatemalan Literature. pp. 522-524.

Honduran literature. pp. 539-540.

Costa Rican Literature. pp. 603-604.

Mexican Literature. pp. 671-674.

Nicaragua literature. pp. 692-694.

Panama Literature. pp. 708-710.

Paraguayan literature. pp.723-724.

El Salvador Literature. pp. 763-764.

Spaniard on the border of cultural worlds // Problems of cultural borderland. Book of memory of V.B.Zemskov. M., IMLI RAN, 2014. S. 323-348. nine0003

Origins of Magical Realism in Latin American Literature // Magical Realism. Tradition and modernity. Omsk, Omsk State University, 2014.

Valery Zemskov’s discoveries: the worlds of Latin America. // Valery Zemskov. On the literature and culture of the New World. M.-SPb. “Gnosis”, 2014. S. 5-8.

Russian literature through the eyes of Spanish American writers of the 20th century. // Russian literature in the mirrors of world culture: reception, translations, interpretations. M., IMLI RAN, 2015.

Journal publications

Spanish and Mexican tradition in Mexican lyrical folklore. / Latin America, 1980, No. 3. C. 114-127.

Juan Rulfo and the evolution of an ancient story. / Latin America, 1981. No. 7. C. 121-132.

Speech at the discussion “Experience of the Latin American novel and world literature”. / Latin America, 1982. No. 6. S. 72-76.

José Guadalupe Posada and folk tradition. / Latin America. nineteen83, No. 10. C. 110-125.

José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican carnival of death. / Decorative Arts, 1983, № 2.

On the specifics of the contemporary Latin American novel. / Questions of Literature, 1984, No. 7.

Tango song: folklore or literature? / Latin America, 1986, No. 3. C. 111-122.

A new word in cultural studies. / Latin America, 1986. No. 8. C. 119-122.

The evolution of the novel in the literature of socialist Cuba. / Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Literature and Language Series. Volume LXV, No. 4. C. 341-346. nine0003

The magical epic of Carlos Fuentes. / Latin America, 1988, No. 11. C. 84-92.

A new Latin American historical novel. / Latin America, 1989, No. 1. C. 88-92.

Octavio Paz’s Utopia. / Foreign literature. 1991. No. 1. C. 236-240.

Alberto Sanchez. / Literary Armenia, 1991, No. 1.

Between two worlds. / Latin America, 1991, No. 9. C. 101-108.

Africans and the culture of Spanish America / Latin America, 1992, no. 9. C. 111-119.

Latin American type of mythological consciousness. / Latin America, 1993, No. 5, pp. 83-87.

Opposition “top – bottom” in the Latin American artistic consciousness. / Latin America, 1994, No. 9. C. 74-81.

Constant of Adamism in the Latin American artistic consciousness. / Latin America, 1996, No. 4. C. 94-99.

Features of the formation of the artistic world of Latin American literature. / Latin America, 1999, No. 4. C. 102-107.

Iberoamerica in the world civilizational process. / Latin America, 1999, nos. 5-6. pp. 134-136.

Paradise in the New World. Truth and life. 2000. No. 11. S. 31-36.

Experience of analogy. On the work of Octavio Paz. / “Questions of Literature”, January – February 2003. C. 242-272.

True and imaginary secrets. / Latin America, 2002, No. 4, pp. 105-108.

Results and prospects. / Latin America, 2002, No. 6. S. 108-112.

Miracle of the conquest. / Latin America, 2004. No. 2. S. 73-88.

“Pink” and “black” legends. / Latin America, 2004. No. 3. S. 64-78. nine0003

Spiritual image of the conquistador: the Spanish dimension. / Latin America, 2004. No. 4. S. 48-61.

Spiritual image of the conquistador: cultural heritage and American space. / Latin America, 2004. No. 5. S. 70-85.

Theory and laws of conquest: first steps. / Latin America, 2004. No. 6. S. 56-70.

Theory and laws of conquest: confrontation. Latin America, 2004, No. 8, pp. 60-75.

Conquistador expeditions. / Latin America, 2004. No. 9. S. 66-82. nine0003

The military aspect of the conquest. / Latin America, 2004. No. 10. S. 66-83.

Conquest and miscegenation. / Latin America, 2004. No. 12. S. 75-91.

The conquistador and the mastery of the space of the New World. / Latin America. 2007, No. 6. S. 57-65.

Areola and Rulfo: dissimilarity of similarities. / Latin America, 2007, No. 10, pp. 100-102.

The image of Soviet Russia in Spanish American literature. / New Russian Humanitarian Studies. 2007, No. 2. S. 12-23.

Balboa is the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean. Pedrarias Davila. / History Illustrated, 2007, no. 3. pp. 4-25.

Diego de Ordaz – conqueror of the Orinoco. / History Illustrated, 2007, no. 4. pp. 24-37.

Mendoza in search of the Silver Kingdom. / History Illustrated, 2008, no. 3. pp. 48-63.

Knight of El Dorado / History Illustrated, 2008, April, No. 4. . C. 4-19.

The story of how the governor of the island of San Juan gained eternal youth. / History Illustrated, 2008, May, No. 5, pp. 50-65. nine0003

How California got its name. / History Illustrated, 2008, June, No. 6. pp. 92-108.

Why the Orellana River became the Amazon River. / History Illustrated, 2008, July, No. 7. C. 4-19.

Human monsters of the Old and New Worlds. / History Illustrated, 2008, September, no. 9. pp. 34-41.

Francisco Vasquez’s report about the rebellion of Lope de Aguirre. / Latin America, 2010, No. 5. S. 87-99.

Francisco Vasquez’s report about the rebellion of Lope de Aguirre. Continuation. / Latin America, 2010, No. 6. S. 75-89.

Francisco Vasquez’s report about the rebellion of Lope de Aguirre. Ending. / Latin America, 2010, No. 7. 2010. S. 67-81.

Review of the book by S.I. Piskunova “Spanish and Portuguese Literature of the 12th – 19th Centuries” / Questions of literature. No. 3, 2010, pp. 500-501.

Pre-revolutionary Russia in Spanish American Literature. / Latin America No. 2. 2011. S. 63-73.

The Soviet Union in the Literature of Latin America. / Latin America, No. 3. 2011. S. 61-75.

Perestroika and the post-Soviet era: a view from Latin America. / Latin America, No. 4. 2011. P. 48-59.

Spanish conquistador in the flow of history // Historical journal: scientific research. No. 3, 2011. S. 64-72.

The German Dawn of Venezuela. / Around the world. No. 10. 2011. P. 156-168.

Artistic space and time in Chekhov’s dramas “The Seagull”, “Three Sisters”, “The Cherry Orchard”. // “Literature and Art”. 2013, No. 5. C. 516-524.

Gonzalo Pizarro, pioneer and rebel. // Latin America, 2014, No. 6. S. 79-93.

The origins of magical realism in Latin American literature. // Latin America, 2015, No. 1. P. 90-100. 1.a.l.

Literary trends. To the project “Dictionary of trends in literature of the twentieth century. Europe and America”. // Studia Literarum. 2016. No. 1-2. pp. 26-46. 1.3 a.l.

The theme of barbarism in Spanish American literature. // Literature of the two Americas: Historical and literary journal. – 2016. – No. 1. – P. 8-49. 2.4 a.l.

“I strove in my work to proceed from a mythological or symbolic vision of reality…”: on the centenary of the birth of Augusto Roa Bastos // Literature of the Two Americas: Historical and Literary Journal. – 2017. – No. 2. – P. 413-431. nine0003

El problema del realismo mágico en la literatura latinoamericana. / Cuadernos Americanos. Mexico. Julio-Agosto, 2000, no. 82, vol.4. P. 63-72.

Los estereotipos artísticos y la autoformación de la literatura latinoamericana. / Cuadernos americanos. Mexico. Vol 6. No. 90, Noviembre-Diciembre de 2001. P. 119-125.

El conquistador español y el espacio latinoamericano. – / Cuadernos Americanos. Mexico. Vol. 4. No. 100. Julio-Agosto, 2003. P. 103-112.

El problema de la syntesis cultural en Latinoamérica. / Coatepec. Mexico. Toluca. No. 5. Julio-Diciembre, 2003. P. 2-8. nine0003

El milagro en la conquista. // La Colmena. Mexico. Toluca. Julio-agosto, 2006.

La conquista y la literatura latinoamericana. // La Colmena. Mexico. Toluca. No. 50. abril-junio 2006. P. 74-81.

La copla española en América Latina. La Colmena. Mexico. Toluca. No. 79. julio-septiembre 2013. P. 65-78.

Las fuentes del realismo mágico en la literatura latinoamericana. La Colmena. Mexico. Toluca, 2015. No. 85-enero-marzo. P. 9-17. 1 a.l.

Prefaces to books

Fabian Dobles. Tales of Tata Mundo. M., 1986.

M. Vargas Llosa. Who killed Palomino Molero? M., 1989

F. Herrera Luque. Doctor Faust’s moon. M., 1999.

H. Cortazar. Exam. M., 1990

M. Puig. Betrayal of Rita Hayworth. M., 1992.

Folk tales of Argentina. M., 1994

Carlos Fuentes. Days in disguise. M., 2001

Juan Rulfo. Stories. Pedro Paramo. M., 2001.

Grants and scholarships

Soros Foundation travel grant for participation in the Second European Congress of Latin Americanists. 1998.

Travel grant from the Soros Foundation for participation in the World Congress of Hispanics. 1999.

Genaro Estrada Scholarship for Mexicanists from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. March-July 2000.

Genaro Estrada Scholarship for Mexicanists from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. May – August 2003.

RHF travel grant for participation in the World Congress of Hispanics in Rome, 2005.

Course “The Artistic Image of the World in Russian Literature of the 19th Century” for graduate students of the Slavic Department of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Sao Paulo. (10 lectures in Spanish)

2009. Brazil. Course “Images of Time and Space in Russian Literature of the 19th Century” for graduate students of the Slavic Department of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Sao Paulo. (10 lectures in Spanish)

2012. Brazil. The course “Theory of Literature and the Analysis of a Literary Text” for postgraduate students of the Slavic department of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Sao Paulo. (10 lectures in Spanish).

2013. Mexico. Course “Problems of the history and theory of Latin American culture” for graduate students and teachers of the University of Mexico State (Toluca). (12 lectures in Spanish).

“I strove in my work to proceed from a mythological or symbolic vision of reality…”: on the centenary of the birth of Augusto Roa Bastos // Literature of the Two Americas: Historical and Literary Journal. – 2017. – No. 2. – P. 413-431. nine0003

Annotations of books:

Latin American artistic image of the world. M., “Heritage”, 1997.

The book represents one of the approaches to the study of the artistic code. On the basis of comparative textual analysis, constant images, myths, themes and plot elements of Latin American literature are revealed. Their culturological interpretation allows us to identify some essential features of Latin American artistic thinking that are important for understanding the typology of Latin American culture. nine0003

America of unfulfilled miracles. M., “Profobrazovanie”, 2001.

This entertaining popular science book presents the history of the exploration of America in a new and unusual perspective – as a history of the search for non-existent miracles that left traces on the map of the continent: the Amazon, Patagonia, Brazil, California, Antilles… The reader will learn where ideas about mythical lands and their outlandish inhabitants came from, get acquainted with curious excerpts from ancient chronicles and documents, trace the exciting and tragic ups and downs of pioneering expeditions and be able to better understand the amazing spiritual make-up of people of the era of great geographical discoveries. Written in a living language, the book is designed for the widest range of readers, despite the fact that many of the facts collected will be new even for professional historians. The book is richly illustrated with old maps and engravings. nine0003

Knights of the New World. M., “Pan-press”, 2006.

The first book in Russian dedicated to the epochal event in the history of mankind – the conquest of America. It is still amazing how the Spaniards were able to explore the vast territories of the two continents and conquer highly developed peoples in such a short time and with such small forces. On each page of the book, the reader is waiting for discovery. He will understand the peculiarities of the Spanish national character, learn about the legal and ethical justifications for the conquest, how the expeditions were organized, and what explains the amazing victories of the Spaniards over superior enemy forces. The book overturns the established ideas about the Spanish conquest of America and about the conquistadors, which used to be painted with black paint. In a wide range of problems, the main one is raised – the spiritual image of the Spanish conquistador, a man born at the crossroads of eras, spaces and cultures. This entertaining and informative book is written in a lively language, richly illustrated and intended for the widest range of readers. nine0003

Cortes and his captains. M., Pan-Press, 2007.

In the history of the Spanish conquest of America, there is no episode more adventurous, exciting, dramatic than the story of the discovery and conquest of Mexico, so interest in the main character of this story, Hernan Cortez, will never dry out. The peculiarity of this book, created in the biographical genre, is that, along with Cortes, it presents biographical portraits of five of his associates – these are Bernal Diaz del Castillo, the author of the wonderful chronicle “The True History of the Conquest of New Spain”, captains Cristobal de Olid, Pedro de Alvarado, Francisco de Montejo, and Diego de Ordaz. The last four organized their own research and conquest expeditions and firmly inscribed their names in the history of the conquest. The amazing fates of the six heroes of this book are intricately intertwined, and the background of these biographies is the exciting story of the Spanish conquest of Central and North America. The author tried to renounce biased interpretations, to create an objective and multidimensional image of the Spanish conquistador, to show the originality of the spiritual image of the movers and the brightest representatives of the era of great geographical discoveries. The book is written in a living language, richly illustrated with old engravings and drawings from Indian manuscripts and is intended for the widest range of readers, including high school students. nine0003

Conquistadors. Three chronicles of the conquest of the New World. SPb., “Symposium”, 2009.

The book contains three texts of the conquistadors: the second message-relation of Hernan Cortes to the king (translated by E. Lysenko), the chronicle of Pedro Pizarro (nephew of Francisco Pizarro) about the conquest of Peru (translated by A. Kofman) and the report of the soldier Francisco Vazquez about the notorious rebellion of Lope de Aguirre (translated by A. Kofman). Why were these particular texts chosen for publication? There are several reasons for this. One of them is to arouse the reader’s interest by presenting the most fascinating historical texts full of extraordinary events, which, for all their factual reliability, read like adventurous stories. nine0003

Spanish conquistador. From the text to the reconstruction of the personality type.

М., IMLI RAS, 2012.

This monograph is an attempt to identify and unbiasedly assess the personality of the conquistador, considering it in the spiritual context of the era of great geographical discoveries. The peculiarity of the study is that the author goes to understand the type of personality of the conquistadors, based on the analysis of their chronicles and relations. A comparative analysis of these texts made it possible to identify a number of formulas and stable motives, which together give an idea of ​​the models of perception of the New World that exist on top of individual differences. In addition to the fact that the mode of perception itself is the most important characteristic of a person, perception is interpreted as a creative and transforming process. In the New World, the experience of perceiving reality becomes an experience of personal transformation – this moment of spiritual transformation is the main object of attention in the monograph, because it concentrates what distinguishes the Spanish conquistador from his compatriots and contemporaries living in Europe. nine0003

Under the patronage of Santiago. The Spanish Conquest of America and the Fates of the Famous Conquistadors .

St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2017.

The work of A. Kofman “Under the patronage of Santiago” is the first book in Russian that recreates the history of the Spanish conquest of America. This book attempts to answer the question of how the Spaniards were able in such a short time and with such small forces to explore the vast territories of the two continents and conquer highly developed peoples. The conquistadors themselves explained this miracle by the patronage of Santiago (St. James), who helped the Spaniards in their centuries-old war with the Moors.