Contributions by Mariana Dimópulos
Mariana Dimópulos translates both fiction and philosophy from English and German. She occasionally writes for the press. She has published two novels, Anís (Entropía, 2008) and Cada despedida (Adriana Hidalgo, 2010). Her relationship with the literature of the United States and Canada? A long and intense relationship with Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, and, going a little further back, with Melville. A somewhat less defined one with the writers of the second half of the twentieth century. A longstanding relationship with the English language, full of admiration, of surprise and sometimes—though only sometimes—of exasperation.
The Mothers of Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, and Jorge Luis Borges Meet in Heaven
Mary Gordon
An angel in a golden robe escorts the last of three ladies of a certain age into a well-appointed sitting room. It is tenderly lit; there are bowls of scentless cream-colored flowers on tables of a heartbreaking polish. Clearly arranged to the greatest possible conversational advantage are three upholstered chairs, covered in a lemon-colored silk. Two of the chairs are already filled; in one, a stoutish woman sits, an iron-colored bun on the top of her head, her hands folded quietly on her lap. Her face is contented; it would be wrong to say that she is smiling. The woman in the chair across from her has her hair done in a knot at the nape of her neck; threads of grey stand out in the chignon, but far fewer than her companions. The third, escorted by … Read More »
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