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We’re Only Words is a literary glimpse into our world from the eyes of the Zapotec People. Beautifully written, the ten stories that make up this book narrate the present and future of the Zapotecs, both inhabited by the memory of their traditions. Despite their apparent particularity, each story is a work of extraordinary universality and creativity that continually reminds us that we’re only words; we’re just the memories stored in other people’s heads.
Sergio Loo’s Nightmare in Narvarte is a formally original, if self-consciously imitative, novel. Sergio, the protagonist, is a childish creature whose murderous psychopathy originates in the experience of love and rejection. As Sergio's story develops through a dense web of intertextual citations from both high and low culture, it takes on the shape of a twisted psychoanalytic parable. We have here a story of the phallus: of, quite literally, Sergio’s giant cock, which transforms him into the “phallic messi
“This book is not an exorcism,” the narrator warns. Nor is it a confessional story or a lamentation. "This book is a declaration of friendship, written on behalf of my demons.” With poignant lucidity, the narrator reflects on the nature of addiction in Mexico at the turn of the century, in which one can already anticipate the social debacle caused by drugs. Among deep reflections on Buddhism, psychoanalysis and philosophy, each chapters is a tribute to Depeche Mode's most emblematic album, Violator . To ful