Her works include the novel A Furious Oyster (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), and the collection of essays Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age (Zero). Jessica Sequeira was born in San Jose, California in 1989, and currently lives in Santiago de Chile. Among his works of fiction were Maravillas, novela funambulesca (1906), and El evangelio del Amor (1922). A prominent journalist, he contributed to numerous newspapers, in Spain, Argentina and Cuba, and was the author of over seventy books. In these stories of solitary figures struggling with incorrigible sentimentality, we meet an aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with what he believes to be Cleopatra’s wig, an eccentric doctor who sells a cure for artistic enthusiasm to fictional writers and artists, and a military man who suffers from jealousy due to an anonymous letter, all told with the light touch of a writer who found beauty in surfeit and exaggeration, dissolution and extravagance.Įnrique Gómez Carrillo (1873-1927) was a Guatemalan man of letters and diplomat, who associated and wrote about many famous writers of his day, including Oscar Wilde and Émile Zola.

Sentimental Stories by Guatemalan born Enrique Gómez Carrillo, man of letters, duelist and dandy, originally published in 1900 and presented here in English for the first time in a translation by Jessica Sequeira, is an exquisite selection of nine tales that covers the ground from desire to insanity, fulfillment in erotic love to suffering in intense anguish.

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