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Tag: by Jorge Volpi

The Name of the Father

By Jorge Volpi, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero
May 2005

Cowering behind an almost idiotic silence, I avoided looking into his eyes, gripped by the same fear that must have gripped Odysseus as he ran from the singular gaze of the Cyclops.

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