A single bed with blood in it. Blood on the pillow and on the sheets and even on the enameled metal of the bed frame. Pink rags in a basin. Half-unrolled bandage on the floor. The nurse bustles over a...
A fourth door, and a fifth, on and on until you reach a thirteenth, a little locked door no bigger than a shoe. The children lean forward. And then? Behind the thirteenth door—the guide flourishes one...
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
Мари-Лора уже ничего в своей жизни не увидит. Самые знакомые места – их с папой четырехкомнатная квартира, скверик в конце улицы – превратились в опасные лабиринты. Шкафы не там, где думаешь. Унитаз –...
Мальчики входят в полутемный вестибюль. Перед ними двустворчатая дверь. Фредерик нажимает кнопку, высоко внутри дома что-то лязгает, и Вернер шепчет: – У вас есть лифт? Фредерик улыбается. Лифт с грох...
Лишь кусок каменной кладки отделяет Мари-Лору от края Бретани, самого дальнего подоконника Франции.
Ентропия е степента на безпорядък в една система, господин докторе...Хауптман пише на черната дъска, курсантите го преписват в тетрадките си:Ентропията в една затворена система никога не намалява. Вся...
Диамантът, напомня си ключарят, е само къс въглерод, престоял цяла вечност под огромното налягане в недрата на Земята и е изхвърлен на повърхността през някой коминот лава. Някой го изравя, друг го шл...
Yourself to sleep at night. Bleed your weasel.
What are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.
Walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the
Vitrine. Upstairs his wife runs a vacuum cleaner; he can
Too cold even to snow—that winter presents a strange and haunted season during which Werner prowls the static like he used to prowl the alleys with Jutta, pulling her in the wagon through the colonies...
The voice seems to echo in the architecture of his head
Souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like starlings? That g...
Smoldering skeletons of the seafront
Smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxid...
She opens her bedroom window and listens to the evening as it settles over the balconies and chimneys, languid and peaceful
Puede ser que el cerebro, que jamás conoce una chispa de luz, construya en nuestro interior un mundo lleno de luces?». Si
Pilaster, probably meant to anchor a