The Dream of Goslar

Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Category: Literature · Subcategory: Literary fragments · Year: 2012 · Authors: Javier Hernández-Velázquez

Published in the collection G21 Nuevos novelistas canarios ( G21 New Canarian Novelists ), The Dream of Goslar develops its plot around Henry Moore's sculpture The Warrior of Goslar . Javier Hernández-Velázquez manages to turn the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife into a noir novel setting.

[...] «It costs me no effort to reconstruct the moment I first saw you, standing in the middle of the Rambla de Santa Cruz. If any work of art is prophetic, you were more so. Suddenly you were not just a beautiful statue, but a fearsome one. Behind the bronze you contained a world I felt incapable of imagining. Touching you, I guessed my future. The ghost of the bronze took hold of me, allowing me to hear a distant echo that consecrated the time of myth and condemned me, in the name of the past, to think of things that were not of this world.» [...]

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