Horacio Castellanos Moya
Books and literary traditions in the Volumain atlas.
Books in the world atlas
Senselessness
A proofreader working on a report about massacres of Indigenous people becomes increasingly paranoid.
In the atlas: El Salvador
The She-Devil in the Mirror
The murdered woman’s friend delivers a monologue exposing fear, class prejudice and violence among Salvadoran elites.
In the atlas: El Salvador
Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador
A returning emigrant delivers a merciless tirade about his country and its everyday rituals.
In the atlas: El Salvador
The Dream of My Return
A writer’s planned return to El Salvador becomes entangled in paranoia, hypnosis and memories of war.
In the atlas: El Salvador
Tyrant Memory
A family’s fate unfolds between a failed coup and a strike against the dictator in 1944.
In the atlas: El Salvador