An Excerpt from “The Laws of Motion”

Roberto Castillo Sandoval is a Chilean essayist, novelist, and translator. His works include Antípodas (Cuarto Propio, 2014), a translation of Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener into Spanish (Hueders, 2017), and a novel, Muriendo por la dulce patria mía (Libros del Laurel, 2017). He teaches Spanish and Comparative Literature at Haverford College. Los muertos del año, an anthology of fictional obituaries was published by Hueders in 2018. He is at work translating Hawthorne and Poe into Spanish.