Brilliant Prose

IT WAS INEVITABLE/ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

IT WAS INEVITABLE/ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before. The Antillean […]

Keep my eyes open, for I am alone/ Lazarillo of Tormes

Keep my eyes open, for I am alone/ Lazarillo of Tormes

At that time a blind man came to lodge at the inn, who, seeing that I would do to lead him, asked for me from my mother. She gave me to him, saying that I was the son of a good father, and boasting that he had been killed at the Island of Gelves. She told the […]