Arts for the 21st Century

Naín Nómez

Naín Nómez

Philosophy Teacher from Universidad de Chile and University of Toronto Ph. D. He was a Full Professor and Academic of Excellence in the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He has published around twenty books of criticism, poetic works and anthologies of Chilean and Latin American poets, besides some one hundred articles of his speciality. The lasted book of poetry it is a new printing of Historias del reino vigilado (2018).

Baldío

Cuando despertó la pandemia todavía seguía ahí y recordó el cuento de Monterroso con algo de ironía con algo de pavor Durante los días anteriores tuvo varias pesadillas pero ninguna comparada con ésta Como toda persona letrada

Waste Land

Translation by Keith Ellis

“I had not thought death had undone so many.”

  1. S. Eliot

When he woke up, the pandemic was still there,

and he remembered Monterroso’s short story

somewhat ironically, somewhat terror struck.

In previous days he had suffered several nightmares,

but none compared to this one.

Like all learned people

he recalled Camus’ The Plague, Defoe’s The Plague Years

and Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness;

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