Nocturno Urbano: relatos y poemas
Short stories, Poetry
Human-narrated audio
Summary
"'Language belongs to those who rule,' asserts a story in this book by Cristina Peri Rossi. They, the powerful (as they ride over their victims, as narrated in "La Cavalcade"), are the ones who give names to things and who… create a syntax from whose nets it is difficult to escape. Difficult, but not impossible if one practices fantasy (see the author's prologue), if one celebrates each act as if it were the first time ("The Amnesiac Club"), if one believes in details ("Lovelys"), if one is clear that any decision is partially wrong ("The Club of the Undecided"), if one understands that words are the only company that does not fail ("My house is writing"), if one discovers in time that the center of the world is in the periphery ("The Outskirts"), or if one tunes in with the castaways, the uprooted, the suicides, the insomniacs, the martyrs, those who float in the air, those who stop to talk in a city with no future, those who watch over the weapons of love or those who still prefer orgasms to sleeping pills. " -- Translation provided by NLS