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Javier Marías Franco (20 September 1951 – 11 September 2022) [1] was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. [2] Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White (Corazón tan blanco, 1992) and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, 1994). [3]
"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 ...
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer.. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive.
El árbol de oro (English: The Tree of Gold) is a short story (roughly three pages) by Ana María Matute (1925-2014), written in Spanish. It is part of her collection of short stories, set in the Spanish countryside, called Historias de la Artámila (1961).
"Death and the Compass" (original Spanish title: "La muerte y la brújula") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). Published in Sur in May 1942, it was included in the 1944 collection Ficciones. It was translated into English by Anthony Kerrigan and published in New Mexico Quarterly (Autumn 1954).
Last Evenings on Earth (Llamadas Telefonicas in Spanish) is a collection of short stories by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, published in 1997 [1] with a translation into English by Chris Andrews published in 2006. The stories in this volume were selected from two Spanish-language collections, Llamadas Telefonicas (1997) and Putas Asesinas ...
[88] The love of old people is based on a newspaper story about the death of two Americans, who were almost 80 years old, who met every year in Acapulco. They were out in a boat one day and were murdered by the boatman with his oars. García Márquez notes, "Through their death, the story of their secret romance became known. I was fascinated ...
El llano en llamas (translated into English as The Burning Plain and Other Stories, [1] The Plain in Flames, [2] and El Llano in flames [3]) is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The stories were written over several years for different literary magazines, starting in 1945 with They Gave Us The Land. [4]