I find this story noteworthy primarily because of beautiful language & unusual presentation. In some sense, it's actually a borderline genre case. Style reminded me of
Kurt Vonnegut's "
Slaughterhouse-Five". Here we have no time travel, assuming that that indeed was the case in Vonnegut's book. What we have, instead, is a picture - a group photograph, & the story is of people in the picture & of the speculative bits of their lives outside the frame.
With a suggestion that there is something sinister cooking.
Story is set in Paris.
Fact sheet.
First published: ? (in Spanish?)
Download full text of English translation by Chris Andrews from
The New Yorker.
Rating: B.
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