Keywords: Short Fiction, Multiculturalism, Autofiction, Mythology, Latin-American Literature.
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Ednodio Quintero
English
Translated from the Spanish by Rowena Hill
Commented by Enrique Vila-Matas
2021
Paperback | 204 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
My vocation and my destiny fuse in the only possible place: in writing. I write with passion, even with anger. I trace convoluted signs in which, someday, maybe as my death approaches, I will discover my true face.
- Ednodio Quintero
“This great story-writer has constructed a literary world charged with dense personal mythology, wonderfully invented, the starting point of which is always a village imagination raised to the highest power (...) Quintero is one of those ‘writers of before’, and it is possible that, in the end, being so far removed from the lens of the media has benefited him, because it has allowed him to accede to the ideal of certain purebred story-tellers: being pure text, being strictly literature.”
- Enrique Vila-Matas
Ednodio Quintero (Las Mesitas, 1947). Writer, essayist, professor, photographer, and japonologist. One of the finest voices in contemporary Venezuelan literature. His work illustrates the highest qualities of narrative as art. He has been a guest researcher and teacher at Japanese institutions.