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A collection of short stories by 12 contemporary Spanish writers
including Javier Cercas and Paloma Diaz-Mas. The settings vary from
the exotic (Salome at the court of King Herod, the palace of a
Moorish king with a half-mermaid daughter) to the historical (a
little boy's experience of life in rural Spain under Franco), the
fantastic (travelling the world through a labyrinth of built-in
wardrobes) and the Chandleresque "film noir." Each of the stories
follows a traveller or travellers, who, in the course of the tale,
become lost to reality in some way, or alientated from their
expectations and ideals. Sometimes these escapes are temporary, and
the protagonist has to return to the everyday world. Sometimes they
are permanent. Sometimes the travel is geographical as well as
mental. In each case these fugues are metaphors; for contemporary
Spanish life in some instances, for the whole of modern experience
in others.
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