Short Stories
Street of Death/La calle de la muerte
Why does General Francisco Franco's wife have the love letters of Spanish realist Benito Pérez Galdós (in photo at left) to Countess Emilia Pardo Bazán, a novelist, critic, and a married woman?
Barr has researched and taught about these iconic figures, and now she is reimagining them in ultrashort stories about saints, sinners, prelates, pícaros, painters and poets from Spain and beyond.
You'll find St. Teresa of Avila, the grand niece of dictator Anastasio Somoza, the daughter of prolific playwright Lope de Vega, Frida Kahlo, and the guru of molecular gastronomy Ferrán Adriá.
120 page manuscript available as is 200 page Spanish-English version.
Sample a story in English at Ekphrasis:
Or in Spanish at Letralia: