Minerva – Keila Vall de la Ville
Vall de la Ville writes about Venezuela’s decline beautifully and honestly, just as she writes about Minerva’s changing identity as an immigrant
The Disappearing Act – Maria Stepanova
Hundreds of eyes are looking at her, seeing not the novelist but some other unknown person
Within each coupledom, clothing represents a tug of war for power
whitewards – Katarína Kucbelová
Who wants to simply disappear, no longer an individual but only an undefined part of some larger, homogenous body?
My Dreadful Body – Egana Djabbarova
For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols
The characters are diffuse, performing something of a vanishing act
The Harmattan Winds — Sylvain Trudel, Tr. from the French by Donald Winkler
So much time inside such a limited subjectivity also made me question my own. Was I right to read Hugues as pathological, even psychopathic?
The Dream of the Jaguar – Miguel Bonnefoy
Is Bonnefoy suggesting that we read these European colonial narratives as magical realist texts?
Rumi’s poems shuttle across time, place, belief, and tradition to refresh and guide our wearied spirits
[Catrileo] is interested in impurity as political potentiality