Short stories
Sombra
Not translated into English
Arturo Martínez Galindo · 1940
Synopsis
Twelve stories, the longest of which, giving the volume its title, is divided into six chapters. They take their characters to cities in the United States, Washington, Baltimore, New York, New Orleans, and follow them into their inner lives: violence and injustice, a degraded sexuality, vice and prostitution, love between women or between men. The collection also includes “En el tren”, “Amores baldíos” and “El padre Ortega”.
Context
The collection appears in Tegucigalpa in 1940, the year of its author's death, who did not see it brought together. The title story was first to be called “Larva”, and it is seen as the sketch of a novel. In 1996, the author's Cuentos completos include these twelve texts and six lesser-known others. Sources disagree on the title, in the singular in most, in the plural in a few.
Who it is for
Twelve stories in Spanish, with no French or English translation; they are now read mostly in the 1996 edition of the complete tales.
Prizes and reception
Selected by José Antonio Funes among the ten key books of Honduran narrative, as the first to introduce the psychological story there.
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