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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 4 2o18 Graciela Susana Boruszko | Transliteratures 121 spaces could become challenging. At this point, the networks are introduced again in a new metaphor that brings a hint of hope: the communication networks. “Cuesta que las redes de comunicación, por muy sofisticadas que sean, propicien el diálogo profundo entre quienes son dif- erentes; ya sea por lengua, por cultura o por realidad socioeconómica.” (Cerezales 2004:11) “Pero el viento de su literatura (que trae enredados los sueños, la memoria y el afán de sus espíritus)sí puede colarse, y acaso contribuir a que los lectores de este lado se tomen la molestia de concebir, como una posibilidad halagüeña, un futuro en el que la red que nos separa caiga, inservible, a los pies de una red más fuerte que nos una. Un tejido de emociones compartidas y de humanidad que, sin hacernos iguales, con- siga que nos veamos, nos escuchemos, nos entendamos y dejemos de sernos extraños.” (Cerezales 2004:11) “It is difficult that the networks of commu- nication, even if they are very sophisticated, would promote a deep dialogue between those that are different; being that they speak different languages, belong to dis- tinctive cultures or due to a diverse socioec- onomic reality.” (Translation by the author) “But the wind of their literature (that brings entangled their dreams, their memories and the eagerness of their spirit) can infiltrate and maybe contribute that the readership of this side could take the trouble to conceive, as an auspicious possibility a future when the net that separates us will fall, useless, to the feet of a net stronger that will unite us. A weave of shared emotions and humanity that without making us equals, allow that we see each other, that we listen to each other, that we will understand each other and stop being strangers to each other.” (Translation by the author) The transliterature carries not only a shared message but it also constitutes an example for other exchanges where those hospitable spaces could take place between people, that even keeping their differences of culture, all inhabit the Mediterranean Sea. The key of this enterprise is deposited in the dialogue where all that share the will to accept “the other” meet. The stories narrated in this compilation as well as the individuals that venture to cross the sea are incited by their dreams. The last net mentioned is the net of human warmth that brings people closer, thus sheltering all other encounters under this unifying aspect that resides in the shared humanity. It would seem that even if it would be easier to distance ourselves rather than become closer, literature keeps on offering us the spaces where stories are told and listened so that also keeps on bringing “the other” closer and thus, allowing for a moment, to listen and understand each other, so that we can meet “the other” that brings inside a treasure, the treasure of “otherness,” that keeps on attracting us because it has our name, our same nature and it is there where “the other” stops being a stranger and we see him or her, as an extension of “the self” and we realize that we nee- ded “the other” in order to complete “the self.” The title of the story Amé…Rick introduces a verb followed by a noun that functions as a direct object pronoun. The explicit subject “I” hides in an action that is the most human action