Sleep Decades:
An Incomplete List of Sources, Intended for the Obfuscation of the Reader
A Biography in Ten Objects:
Luigi Pirandello, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Czesław Miłosz, Milosz’s ABCs
Draft:
John Updike, “Dear Alexandros”
Carlos Monsiváis, Scenes of Modesty and Frivolity
Alive and Well:
Henry James, “Europe”
Katherine Anne Porter, “Old Mortality”
A Threefold Cord:
William Trevor, “Teresa’s Wedding”
D. H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
As the Waters Fail from the Sea:
Donald Barthelme, “A Manual for Sons”
Antisophers:
Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift
Henry James, “The Author of Beltraffio”
All the Works That My Hands Had Wrought:
Anton Chekhov, My Life
James Joyce, “A Little Cloud”
Remnant:
Eduardo Lizalde, “This Negligible Creature Dies”
Roulette:
José Enrique Rodó, The Motives of Proteus
Boca de Iguanas:
J. M. Coetzee, Youth
Ernest Hemingway, “Ten Indians”
Love—:
Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought
Wilhelm Stekel, Disguises of Love
Luna, Agueda, Lulú:
R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
Bloom:
Julia Kristeva, New Maladies of the Soul
Edward Carpenter, Love’s Coming of Age
Loneliness by the Window:
Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil
Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus
Confessions of an American Marihuana User:
Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane
Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel
Basement Blues:
Maurice Friedman, To Deny Our Nothingness
Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Margins:
Otto Weininger, Sex and Character
Arthur Schopenhauer, “The Metaphysics of Sexual Love”
Levity:
José Asunción Silva, “The Day of the Dead”
Sleep Decades is available now from Malarkey.
Praise for Sleep Decades by Israel A. Bonilla:
"My sense is that Sleep Decades will be regarded one day as the memorable debut of its celebrated and important author. As in Dahlberg, the writing achieves its convulsive effects from a sonorous baroque style set against the low life, in this case the milieu of teenagers, receptionists, activists, beach partiers, and potheads, among others. As in Cortázar, its heart lies firmly in sympathy with the unwieldy passions of young people. And as in Carpentier, its erudition is daunting, but relieved by a streak of mordant humor and classical form."
―Alvin Lu, author of The Hell Screens