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The duration of the story is brief as everything happens over the course of three days. The first six chapters happen in two days and the last occurs three or four days later. But the most significant thing is the chronological disorder, as facts are not told in the manner which they happen.
Auxilio was already featured in a chapter of Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives (1998), where she narrates her stay in the restroom of the besieged university. However, as Francisco Goldman has noted, Amulet "sings an enthralling and haunting ode to youth, life on the margins, poetry and poets, and Mexico City.
"The Wait" (original Spanish title: "La espera", sometimes translated as "The Waiting") is a 1950 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in the collection The Aleph . David Foster Wallace referred to the story as "marvelous".
"The Gospel according to Mark" (originally in Spanish "El Evangelio según Marcos") is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the short story collection Doctor Brodie's Report (originally in Spanish El informe de Brodie), first published in 1970.
"The Immortal" (original Spanish title: "El inmortal") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in February 1947, [1] and later in the collection El Aleph in 1949. The story tells about a character who mistakenly achieves immortality and then, weary of a long life, struggles to lose it and writes an account of his ...
La muñeca menor (1972), also known as, The Youngest Doll is a short story written by Rosario Ferré.The story is told in third person narrative, and is part of a larger group of published work in her book of short stories, "Papeles de Pandora", this is one of the most famous of those short stories.
It is considered one of the shortest stories in Spanish, [1] and its whole text is the following: Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí. Meaning: When he/she/it woke, the dinosaur was still there. It is a simple sentence that forms a flash story, probably the most famous of all those published by Monterroso throughout his career.
The Revolver (El revólver) is a short story by Emilia Pardo Bazán, which was first published in 1895. [ 1 ] Ángel Flores later translated it from Spanish to English in 1960. [ 1 ] It became one of Pardo Bazán’s classic works in feminist literature .