Notes
1 “Entrevista de María Josefina Tejera a Revueltas,” El Nacional (Caracas, 09/01/1968), 4.
2 Literally, “the dying side,” referring to moments of emotional intensity, particularly the pathos of love and violence in popular Mexican songs.
3 Malcolm Lowry, Bajo el volcán, trans. Raúl Ortiz Ortiz (Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1964).
4 José Revueltas, Los muros de agua (Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1961), 25.
5 José Revueltas, El luto humano (Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1980).
6 José Revueltas, Los días terrenales (Mexico City: Ediciones Stylo, 1949).
7 Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (London: Penguin Books, 1962), 355-6.
8 Wikipedia contributors, "Under the Volcano," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Under_the_Volcano&oldid=1163029314 (accessed July 3, 2023).
9 Lowry, Under the Volcano, 41-2.
10 Revueltas, Los muros de agua, 23.
11 Harold Bloom, The Invention of the Human (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998).
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Julián Herbert
Julián Herbert (Mexico, 1971), admired for the “historical fiction” of La casa del dolor ajeno (2015; The House of the Pain of Others, 2019), is also the author of three short story collections, including Cocaína (manual de usuario) (2006; Cocaine [User’s Manual]) and Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino (2017; Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino, 2020). He has published several poetry collections, two other novels—Un mundo infiel (2016; Unfaithful World) and the widely praised Canción de tumba (2011; Tomb Song, 2018)—and a nonfiction selection, Algunas estúpidas razones para volver a Berlín (2013; Some Stupid Reasons for Returning to Berlin).