Point of Contact 1976

This third issue of Point of Contact features a wide-ranging selection of critical essays and literary explorations addressing literature, art, politics, and translation. It includes contributions from Warren Dean on the USIA Book Program and the covert subsidization of translated books in Latin America; Fernando del Moral López’s “Cinco códigos para leer Don Quijote”; drawings by César Paternosto accompanied by Pedro Cuperman’s “Notas Sobre Paternosto”; and essays by Kalman H. Silvert, Nicolas Calas, George Yudice, Noé Jitrik, and Octavio Armand, whose notes ask, “¿Seremos al fin capaces de pensar por nuestra cuenta?”

In its early years, Point of Contact emerged as an independent editorial project, producing a rare bilingual literary journal dedicated to interdisciplinary exploration. Emphasizing that literature, criticism, art, and social thought are interconnected reflections shaped by language and historical circumstance, the journal published essays, visual works, reviews, notes, and critical discussions across cultural and national boundaries.

This digital version of the original Point of Contact edition is accessible in digital format here, or in print, available for purchase through Punto Shop.