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Mauro Javier Cärdenas
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Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS (Dalkey) APHASIA (FSG) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN (Coffee House Press).
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Pleased that my review of Gabriele Tergit’s masterpiece Effingers ran in this weekend’s @wsj.com

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‘Effingers’ Review: Days and Nights in Berlin
A 1951 novel traces a German-Jewish family and its fortunes through the generations.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:41 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
I blocked everyone on Twitter who didn’t like The Longcut by Emily Hall lol
January 14, 2026 at 4:26 AM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Jonathan Moreland has been writing an amazing book on the long sentence in contemporary fiction, with chapters on Krasznahorkai, Ellman, Fosse, and my novels.

Here’s a Q&A we did recently for Global South Literary Studies. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IUZYK...
The impulse sentences: Mauro Javier Cárdenas in conversation with Jonathan Moreland
Since 2016, Mauro Javier Cárdenas, an Ecuadorian author based in the United States, has been experimenting with the most primary unit of linguistic discourse: the sentence. Across three novels, he ...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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tobiasvryan.bsky.social
Moresco on his œuvre — now @minorliteratures.bsky.social

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January 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Afinidades electivas.
January 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Testing / testing
January 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Posting some books I enjoyed in 2025 to see if anyone’s here
December 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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American Abductions by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social published by the good folks at @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
jaredwade.bsky.social Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · Dec 5
Has there ever been a work called "American ____[anything]____" that isn't bad and embarrassing?
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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theuntranslated.bsky.social
Join us for a discussion of Michael Lentz's 1001 page novel Schattenfroh with translator Max Lawton and author Mauro Javier Cardenas

Date and time

Thursday, October 30 · 7 - 9pm PDT

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Schattenfroh: Max Lawton and Mauro Javier Cardenas at Womb House Books
Eventbrite - Womb House Books presents Schattenfroh: Max Lawton and Mauro Javier Cardenas at Womb House Books - Thursday, October 30, 2025 at Womb House Books, Oakland, CA. Find event and ticket infor...
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October 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Here
July 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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thatiliazdguy.bsky.social
Finally read _American Abductions_ by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social while I'm down with covid. No disappointment. Haven't seen any blurbs mention Dostoevsky yet, but I'm ready to call it _The Sisters Brzeszczykowski_. @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
Cover of American Abductions, the third novel by Mauro Javier Cardenas, with a reproduction of Leonora Carrington's "Labyrinth" in the bottom half of the design. The painting shows a labyrinth of hedges with figures making their way through. Some are white, some black, some red. A red bird figure at the entrance looks like Max Ernst's totem. A prominent black horse with a large, wide-open, staring golden eye has a white acrobat in red socks doing a headstand on its back. Farther along are more horses, people following a pair of oxen, more Ernst-like bird figures, people bearing branches, and towards the center of the labyrinth, what looks like a white figure receiving a blessing from a black figure.
July 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Two books I’ve been reading excitedly this week:

Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener & the new essay collection by Yoko Tawada
May 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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ilanaslightly.bsky.social
Wondering what big outlet will pay me to do a small press books roundup every month or two because it seems like this is more necessary now than ever
May 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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marcobook.bsky.social
Emocionado hasta la médula @ineluctablequak.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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shonatiger.hararereview.com
Like I keep saying: It's all very American Abductions x Mauro Javier Cárdenas
March 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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agendaearth.bsky.social
Absolutely. More recent but also very excellent -and terrifying-American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas.
February 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
Blurbs from Lemony Snicket, Joanna Ruocco, Brian Evenson, Brandon Shimoda, & Carol Guess

🤯🥺😭

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February 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Hey look there’s a project on the influence of Thomas Bernhard on contemporary literature 💕
February 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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nichollsm86.bsky.social
amazing book mail from two great used book shops on Instagram, Apport Used Books and Barbed Wyre Books. Also two new releases from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and an order from a recent sale at @versobooks.bsky.social, excited to get to these books✨📚
January 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Next up is American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas—been looking forward to this one since it came out
January 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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seventydys.bsky.social
so as not to be driven mad

Thomas Bernhard, ‘Madness’, in ‘The Voice Imitator’, tr Kenneth J. Northcott
MADNESS A postman was suspended in Lend because for years he had not delivered any letter that he thought contained sad news or, in the nature of things, any of the cards announcing a death that came his way, but had burned them all in his own home. The post office finally had him committed to the lunatic asylum in Scherrnberg, where he goes around in a postman's uniform and continually delivers letters that are deposited by the asylum's administration in a letter box specially built into one of the walls of the asylum and that are addressed to his fellow patients. According to reports, the postman asked for his uniform as soon as he was committed to the lunatic asylum in Scherrnberg so as not to be driven mad.
January 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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haha I’m so fucking scared for the future
January 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
ineluctablequak.bsky.social
Fantastic close reading by @evand.bsky.social of AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel.

“It is also a book filled with humor and hard-earned joy, suffused with a rare philosophical intelligence that saves it from any hint of mawkishness.”

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Actually Pretty Good: American Abductions
On Mauro Javier Cárdenas's dispatch from the future of the deportation machine
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January 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Start your 2025 off right by tuning into the mind of the Collective! go.bsky.app/UrzZa6j
January 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better.

Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.

neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
January 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM