by Enrique Gómez Carrillo · Snuggly Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781645250111
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«Sentimental Stories» is the short story collection by Enrique Gómez Carrillo, published by Snuggly Books in paperback (108 pages, in English).
It collects nine tales ranging from desire to madness and from erotic love to anguish. Its characters, solitary figures dominated by their own sentimentality, include a poet obsessed with a supposed wig of Cleopatra, a doctor who sells a cure for artistic enthusiasm, and a military man tormented by jealousy after an anonymous letter.
Originally written in 1900, «Sentimental Stories» is published here for the first time in English, in a translation by Jessica Sequeira.
Aimed at readers of short stories with an interest in Central American literature from around 1900 and in translations into English.
Enrique Gómez Carrillo was a Guatemalan literary critic, writer, journalist and diplomat, and the second husband of the Salvadoran-French writer and artist Consuelo Suncin de Sandoval-Cardenas, later Consuelo Suncin, comtesse de Saint-Exupéry, who in turn was his third wife; he had been previously married to intellectual Aurora Cáceres and Spanish actress Raquel Meller.
