Malditos . Rabito nació en el año 2002 en las proximidades de la estación Coghlan, en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Muy joven fue atacado por un perro y en ese trance perdió la cola. Tras recuperarse sin ningún socorro veterinario, su particular silueta comenzó a volverse familiar en el barrio, ya que a diferencia…
Edgar Brau The President’s Blessing Translated by Donald A. Yates and Joanne M. Yates (complete short story) . Our Presidential residence is situated in the very center of the Capital, and two or three blocks of luxurious mansions surround it like protective rings. Continuing outward from these homes, the humbleness of the outlying dwellings accelerates…
Edgar Brau THE LAMP AND THE MEMORY Aphorisms Translated by Elizabeth Dell Malvon (selection) Quien alza su lámpara lee en la memoria.He who raises his lamp reads in memory. I El ser es aquello que no puede ser ocultado por la sombra ni revelado por la luz. Being is that which cannot be concealed by…
Edgar Brau Bárcena’s Dog Translated by Donald A. Yates (excerpt) I “So, my Colonel, what do we do with the savage?” One-Eyed Bárcena, officer in charge of a division of Oribe’s forces that was bivouacked at that moment in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, felt a twinge of anger and with his one good eye…
Edgar Brau The Golem Project Translated by Andrea G. Labinger (excerpt) . Now, slightly more than a month since the Council announced the conclusion of The Golem Project, it is possible to verify that the outrageous suppositions and groundless allegations provoked by the revelation at the time still persist, creating a state of anxiety in…
Edgar Brau The Journey Translated by Donald A. Yates (excerpt) Étonnants voyageurs!Baudelaire, Le voyage, III I At the hour when night seems to gather in its tapestries to the tinkling of frozen crystal, and the weakest of the stars throw themselves toward the still-darkened earth, terrified by the inminent catastrophe of daybreak, at that hour, propitious…
Edgar Brau ARGENTINE SUITE Grimaldi’s Christ Translated by Donald A. Yates (excerpt) . INTRODUCTION Around 1969, encouraged by the examples of Cuba and Vietnam and with the pretext of combating the military government that had assumed power three years earlier, the first guerilla groups became active in Argentina. In 1973, when the dictatorship handed over…
Edgar Brau Casablanca Translated by Andrea G. Labinger (excerpt) . It happened toward the end of March, on the road to Mar del Plata. At the close of a very warm day, the sun was slowly setting. In the western sky, a blend of pinks and grays distracted me from the solitary route and the…
Edgar Brau The Forgotten God Translated by Donald A. Yates (complete short story) There are four legends concerning Prometheus… According to the third, his treachery was forgotten in the course of thousands of years, forgotten by the gods,the eagles, forgotten by himself.KAFKA, Prometheus I There were no longer wounds, nor eagles, nor chains. The rock…
Edgar Brau: Imaginación y poesía Por Kelly Kim University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) (La presente entrevista fue realizada en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, en agosto de 2004, mediante una beca otorgada a la autora por el Latin American Center de la U.C.L.A. En ese entonces la profesora Kim preparaba su tesis doctoral, basada…