Short stories
Prosas nuevas
Not translated into English
Froylán Turcios · 1914
Synopsis
Love stories in which the femme fatale dominates men and leads them towards death. Germán López, a writer, on the beach at Botafogo, in Brazil; the poet Jorge Olmedo, whom Stella de Meurice destroys; René Martín, rejected by Esther Rosal, aboard an ocean liner on Christmas Eve; in Madeira, a foreign couple bound by cruelty, hatred and a ritual eroticism of pain.
Context
The collection appeared in 1914, in Tegucigalpa according to one study, in San Salvador according to another. Several stories draw on the author's travels, to Rio de Janeiro in 1906 and to Guatemala in 1908. They belong to the decadent aesthetic: dandyism, boredom, pleasure mixed with pain, hopeless love. “Pareja exótica” reappears in the collection the author published in Paris in 1929 or 1930.
Who it is for
Stories in Spanish, in an ornate prose; there is no French or English translation of this collection.
Prizes and reception
El Heraldo regards it as its author's masterpiece; “Nochebuena en alta mar” is considered one of his most successful stories.
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