"Miedo" and "La esquina del mausoleo"

Abstract

In "Miedo", the first of the two stories, a young engineer flees an imminent arrest during the Stalin purges in 1937 and assumes the identity of a stranger, which lands him in the Siberian taiga, in the unfamiliar role of a hunter. "La esquina del mausoleo" is a meditation on the visual nature of memory, exile and nostalgia "La esquina del mausoleo" is a meditation on the visual nature of memory, exile and nostalgia