J.R. Wilcock
Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (1919–1978) was an Argentine writer, poet, critic and translator, closely linked to Jorge Luis Borges and Silvina Ocampo. ‘Night of the Gnomes’ is a new translation, taken from Wilcock’s first collection of stories, El caos (The Chaos), published in 1974.
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Night of the Gnomes
J.R. Wilcock
‘The plan was quite simple: Güendolina would invite him into the bedroom and persuade him to make love to her until he was utterly exhausted.’