The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza

Author:Cristina Rivera Garza [Garza, Cristina Rivera]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-9973666-9-3
Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

How the woman had vomited. On the bed, beside the man’s body. How, from that vomit, from that jumble of bones and saliva and bile, from that truly nauseating smell, from that unbearable substance, those things had appeared. Those things the boy had drawn later, much later, at the request of the translator. On a sunny morning. A spectacular morning.

XIII: L’Enfant sauvage

That lumberjacks can be cautious I knew, or sensed: either way it doesn’t matter. Their proximity to sharp-toothed heavy tools must have something to do with it. Occupational hazards. Their close relationship, so paradoxical, almost organic, with the forest they kill and that sustains them. Do these thoughts pass through the mind of a lumberjack as he saws and cleaves and hacks at the tree bark? During those days, I asked myself that question frequently. And I answered: They think all this and more. Or they would.

It was the lumberjacks who walked along the edge of the cabin carrying him. It was they who led him—“dragged him” would be more accurate—to the central market where just the day before the translator and I had found salt, a little black tea, sugar, three or four potatoes. Some utensils. A pewter plate. Two cups.

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