Roberto Bolano





Twilight in Barcelona


What can be said about the drowning Barcelona twilights.  Remember
The Rusiñol painting Erik Satie en el seu estudi?
The magnetic Barcelona twilights are like that, like Satie's eyes and
Long hair, like Satie's hands and like Rusiñol's affection.
Twilights inhabited by supreme silhouettes, magnificence
Of the sun and the sea over these hanging or subterranean abodes.
Built for love.  City of Sara Gibert and Lola Paniagua,
City of slipstreams and completely gratuitous secrets.
City of genuflections and cords.


trns. by Laura Healy


Catalog





Benjamin on the Novel vs Storytelling- Information - the novel-information as debased

 From the storyteller:  [this was written in the 1930s, amazing] Every morning, news reaches us, from around the globe.  And yet we lack rem...