Arriaga, writer of Iñárritu’s “Trilogy of Death,” the films, Amores perros, 21 Grams & Babel, his immersive novel, The Untameable, some lines from it illustrated with works by David Gremard Romero

With pain, at least it feels as though that part of the body is still alive. Numbness is a near certainty that something in you has died. — Guillermo Arriaga, The Untameable, translated by Frank Wynne & Jessie Mendez Sayer, 2021, p.13 the story of David and Absalom … Faulkner had
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