Naranjo the Muse

Naranjo the Muse

  • Author: Castañeda, Omar
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558851924
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518501944
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2017
  • Pages: 176

“My life is a nightmare of predictability,” bemoans one character in this collection of lyrically interwoven stories. Out of the banality of existence comes magical realist accounts, fantastic events and aerial lives that, through their storytelling and through the force of story-telling itself, forge new ways of being. These stories are not just about the stories, but about how each of us envisions our life as storyteller. Naranjo the Muse also deals with resisting the oppression of everyday existence. As in the labyrinthian The 1001 Arabian Nights, this collection reveals how stories save lives and seduce the mind away from an awareness of death, be that death actual, moral, political or death in the desperation of everyday living.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • I. Wounds
    • Misunderstanding Prufrock, With Some Cummings
    • My Comrade Podvig
    • Love's Lost Labor: Male
    • Dogs of Clowerston
    • The Discovery Channel
    • The Rabbit War
    • God's Polyp
    • High on the Precipice
  • II. Into Pearls
    • The Sone of Ishkik
    • The Grackle
    • Under a Blinding Sun
    • The Odd Time of Raúl Sombra
    • Office Games
    • Mything Linda in the High Window
    • The News of The Author
    • The English Professor

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