Delfina Cabrera is a literary critic currently working at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, where she curates and studies the photographical archive of Mexican writer Mario Bellatin. In addition to publishing numerous scholarly articles, she is an active literary translator and the author of Las lenguas vivas. Zonas de exilio y traducción en Manuel Puig.
The images of St. Jerome repeat themselves, identically, on a small altar. A lamp that must remain lit illuminates them. The devoted one, Antonio, is ill and the woman who assists him sees to it that...