Για κάποιο παράξενο λόγο ο Ερνεστ Χέμινγουεϊ, τόσο ως προσωπικότητα όσο και ως συγγραφέας, μου ασκεί μια περίεργη γοητεία. Δεν ξέρω αν πρέπει να τον συμπαθήσω ή να τον αντιπαθήσω. Από τη μία η περιπετειώδης ζωή του με τα ταξίδια τις γυναίκες και τα υπέροχα κείμενά του και από την άλλη η «άγρια», ...
. . The Koran It was Ash Wednesday and, eternally punctual, a parched, choking wind swept through the barrio stirring up filth and sorrow, as if sent straight from the desert to recall the Messiah’s sacrifice. Sand from quarries and ancient hatreds stuck to rancour and fear and the rubbish overfl...
the Count calculated. He said it out loud so it seemed more credible, used his fingers to reckon up yet again the obscenely inflated figure, which represented so many, many years, and he began to accept it must be so when he felt the anxiety stirred by what had gone forever to be in denial. Then ...
Totally absorbed in blind combat from that day on, Lev Davidovich understood that the Great Leader’s macabre game still demanded his presence because his back had to serve as a springboard in Stalin’s race to the most inaccessible summits of imperial power. At the same time, he had realized that—...
But he hardly thought about hurricane Felix, which was probably just round the corner, at an obedient halt, waiting to be invoked by the Count before it took to its preferred route of the Calzada and carried through its general clear-out, but rather he scrutinized his watch, which warned there we...
If the morning sun, glinting brightly on the windowpanes, bathing the whole room in glorious light, struck them and sparked off the vital act of raising my eyelids, the slippery dough settling in my skull would be set to start a painful dance at the least movement of my body. To sleep, perchance ...
. .In your life I’ll be the best from the mists of yesterday when you’ve forgotten me, like the best poem’s always the one we can’t remember.Virgilio y Homero Expósito, Be gone from meThe symptoms hit him suddenly, like a voracious wave sweeping a child off a quiet shore and dragging him into the...