Retiro Station. Buenos Aires.

Retiro Station in Buenos Aires belongs to Argentinian national heritage. It was used in some scenes of the film The Secret in Their Eyes (2009, El secreto de sus ojos) directed by Juan José Campanella following a screenplay based on the novel The Question of their eyes (2005, La pregunta de sus ojos) by Eduardo Sacheri. The station is the localization of endless waits of the victim's husband in order to find the murderer, the travels of main caracter and the perfect and emotive farewell scene on the platform. The scene can be seen on Youtube.
The film, which won the Oscar for best foreign film 2010, used as a stage the central nave, in which a train was maked up to 1974 liverie, and the lobby, that was tricked to the appearance of the year of  the action.

New issue of Des Rails

The new issue of Des Rails, the French web magazine on railway literature, is available on its website from April 15th 2013. Includes stories, poems and photographs. It can be read or downloaded here.

Tracks on the cover

The railroad tracks burst on the cover at its base and converge at the middle or top area. In some of them we can see the destination, in other the pathway fades in the horizon. Sometimes there is a station or a human figure waiting for the train or perhaps regreting his departure. After this kind of covers, we hope to find novels about the flow of life, a personal story, a fate inescapable. The tracks spread always the feeling that the future is written, you can not get out of the rails of your fate... unless you want to star an heroic story, and this is the field of literature.