Short stories
Sendas en el abismo
Not translated into English
Mimí Díaz Lozano · 1959
Synopsis
Thirteen short stories set in a nameless city, which could be any large city in Latin America. Marginality, failure, bitterness, loneliness, hunger, selfishness and violence pass through the narrator's gaze and the inner life of the characters, as the titles announce: “Fracaso”, “Desesperación”, “Sombras”, “Convulsión”, “Al compás de la agonía”, “Ella y la noche”.
Context
The collection appeared in Mexico in 1959, from Costa Amic; it is the only one by its author, who was then a little over thirty. Critics note in it the imprint of naturalism and French existentialism. Long forgotten, it was reissued in Tegucigalpa in 2019 by the publisher Guaymuras, expanded with other stories, and one of them is included in Vindictas, an anthology of Latin American women storytellers published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Who it is for
Thirteen short stories in Spanish, untranslated; the 2019 reissue makes them accessible again.
Prizes and reception
Counted by José Antonio Funes among the ten key books of Honduran narrative; Helen Umaña sees in it a precursor of the innovations of the late sixties.
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