When reality convulses before our eyes, Ethel Krauze clings to the creative act. The result of this exercise of imagination and intelligence are the twenty stories that make up The impertinent fragment, disturbing fictions charged with eroticism and lucidity.
“Repairing the original fracture had been the business of her life. She knew well how to survive with the broken pieces, separating them into compartments, so that they would not know about each other, so that they would not miss each other, so that each of them would sprout new branches that would give rise to different, distant, parallel flowers, simultaneous.
She knew how to clean the blood so that no trace of the crime remained, she could leave the crime scene impeccable, as if it had never taken place. She was an expert in erasing the memory of all but one of the crystal shards. There was a stubborn one, there ...read more
