Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords

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Recorded06 Dec 2025

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Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist of the 20th century,” so why is it likely that you haven’t read or even heard of Elena Garro before now? And given that Garro was, like her fantastical stories, not beholden to the truth when accounting her own life, […] The post Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords appeared first on Tin House.

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