Cristina Rivera Garza: ‘Para dejar de creer en la realidad’

“Uno necesita el mar para esto: para dejar de creer en la realidad. Para hacerse preguntas imposibles. Para no saber. Para dejar de saber. Para embriagarse de olor. Para cerrar los ojos. Para dejar de creer en la realidad.”

“You need the ocean for this: to stop believing in reality. To ask yourself impossible questions. To not know. To cease knowing. To become intoxicated by the smell. To close your eyes. To stop believing in reality.”

— Cristina Rivera Garza, with translation by Sarah Booker. La cresta de Ilión (2002). The Iliac Crest (2017).

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