Author: Roque Dalton
Cited by
- Joe Gannon (1)
- IN: The Last Dawn (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Once again the deep abyss, the old customs! What shall we do, then, with our laughter, with our freedom, with our morals based on anger?
FROM: The Prodigal Son, (1996), Poem, El Salvador
- Santiago Gamboa (1)
- IN: Night Prayers (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Do not utter my name when you learn that I have died, from the dark earth it would come through your voice.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, El Salvador
- Castellanos Moya, Horacio (1)
- IN: The Dream of My Return (2013) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: You can't spend your life returning, especially to that cesspool of a country of yours, that disaster they've turned your parents' home into, just so you can say hi or bring us words of consolation.
Here, every act of pity is cruel if it doesn't set something on fire.
Every sign of maturity must prove its capacity for destruction.
FROM: "The Prodigal Son", (1996), Poem, Salvador