Dreamfences
Blanca Quinteras Indice’s first and only surrealist novel, which many consider led directly to her decision to return to the “certainties of poetry.”
I’m Reading…
Quinteras Indice alludes to the little she knew of Maya imagery as her desperate protagonist stumbles through a jungle of ‘glaring shadows’ and ‘cats a hundred strong.‘
I’ve Read…
In the final pages, Kukulkan presents the protagonist with a riddle, to which the only answer is her name. But as she is an unnamed protagonist, she fails. A two-headed serpent slithers from her head and devours her in four bites. **Effect: **Confounding Parable **Mastery: **Lesson: Serpents & Venoms
Aspects
- Mystery: Sky 4
- Subject: Serpents & Venoms
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Colegio de Santa Potenciana