A través de la alegoría que representa el puzzle, omnipresente en toda la novela y punto conductor de ella; se cuenta la historia de un edificio de París, de la vida que ha habido en cada una de sus habitaciones a través del paso del tiempo. Así nacen cientos de historias, cortas o largas, que na...
It was a very small family business which he had inherited after the 1914–18 war and which he’d run in relaxed prosperity with three cheerful woodworkers at his side whilst she kept the books in big, black-cloth-bound registers with ruled paper and pages she had numbered in violet ink. The rest o...
The familiar half-light of the bedroom, a dark volume broken by details, where your memory can easily identify the paths your eyes have followed a thousand times (retracing them from the opaque square of the window, eliciting the washbasin from a shaft of reflected light and the shelving from the...
I grabbed him by the armpits and went backwards down the stairs to the laboratory. His feet bounced from tread to tread in a staccato rhythm that matched my own unsteady descent, thumping and banging around the narrow stairwell. Our shadows danced on the walls. Blood was still flowing, all sticky...
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All of us know of this anonymous abomination that acts upon us without any of us knowing just how it acts upon us, all of us know, alas, that, by continually barring our path, continually obliging us to adopt unidiomatic circumlocutions, roundabout ways of saying things and dubiously woolly abstr...