Sentimental Stories
Enrique Gómez Carrillo
Translated by Jessica Sequeira
Sentimental Stories by Guatemalan born Enrique Gómez Carrillo, man of letters, duelist and dandy, originally published in 1900 and presented here in English for the first time in a translation by Jessica Sequeira, is an exquisite selection of nine tales that covers the ground from desire to insanity, fulfillment in erotic love to suffering in intense anguish.
In these stories of solitary figures struggling with incorrigible sentimentality, we meet an aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with what he believes to be Cleopatra’s wig, an eccentric doctor who sells a cure for artistic enthusiasm to fictional writers and artists, and a military man who suffers from jealousy due to an anonymous letter, all told with the light touch of a writer who found beauty in surfeit and exaggeration, dissolution and extravagance.
About the Author
Enrique Gómez Carrillo (1873-1927) was a Guatemalan man of letters and diplomat, who associated and wrote about many famous writers of his day, including Oscar Wilde and Émile Zola. A prominent journalist, he contributed to numerous newspapers, in Spain, Argentina and Cuba, and was the author of over seventy books. Among his works of fiction were Maravillas, novela funambulesca (1906), and El evangelio del Amor (1922).
About the Translator
Jessica Sequeira was born in San Jose, California in 1989, and currently lives in Santiago de Chile. Her works include the novel A Furious Oyster (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), and the collection of essays Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age (Zero).
Her translations include Bernardo Couto Castillo’s Asphodels (Snuggly Books, 2020), Teresa Wilms Montt’s Sentimental Doubts (Snuggly Books, 2020), Rafaela Contreras’s The Turquoise Ring and Other Stories (Snuggly Books, 2019), Adolfo Couve’s, When I Think of My Missing Head (Snuggly Books, 2018), and Liliana Colanzi’s Our Dead World (Dalkey Archive).
Paperback, 108 pages
Release date, October 15, 2019
Price: US$13.00
Hardcover, 110 pages. Limited edition of 60 copies
Release date, October 15, 2019
Price: US$28.00