Christy Edwall
@christyedwall.bsky.social
writer • reader • HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT (Granta, 2023) • contributor @ TLS @Review of Sussex Arts •
Augusto Monterroso! What a discovery.
'The novel’s title is shared by its epigraph, which, in being attributed to The Tempest rather than a dying Hamlet, suggests that readers would be wise to be on their guard.'
Christy Edwall: Revisiting a send-up of ‘literary pomposity’
Christy Edwall: Revisiting a send-up of ‘literary pomposity’
Revisiting a send-up of ‘literary pomposity’
Is Augusto Monterroso’s “The Dinosaur” (“El dinosaurio”, 1959) really one of the shortest stories in literature? It reads, in its entirety, “When he
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January 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Augusto Monterroso! What a discovery.
Slice of South African history c. 1978 found in Shoreham by Sea
January 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Slice of South African history c. 1978 found in Shoreham by Sea