Author: Francisco Umbral

Cited by

• Dimitri Verhulst (1)
  • IN: The Misfortunates (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Why do I no longer dream about my mother? Perhaps because I have written too much about her, even distributing her beautiful profile on the cover of a book. Without meaning to exorcise anything, I exorcized her presence. My mother wasn't bothering me, I summoned her up myself by writing so much about her, but I suspect that in the end I created a literary character -- complex, artistic, complicated -- and lost the real mother, the dead mother, as a result. I am the orphan of a dead mother because I wrote too much about her.
    FROM: A Creature of Distance, (None), Book, Spain