Other words for “Horror”
The current issue of Words Without Borders, the online magazine of international literature, is devoted to Horrors. Included are works from Germany, Italy, Japan, Finland, France, Serbia, Spain and Brazil, newly translated into English.
I’ve never associated the work of Edward Hopper with horror, though one could say isolation is a form of horror (Not to me, I’m of the “Hell is other people” school).
The Visitor Edward Hopper Received Two Years before His Death
By Mario Sabino. Translated by Clifford E. Landers
It was at the start of the winter that’s ending now. I was returning from my evening walk when I spotted a stranger sitting at my table in the bar in the piazza—more exactly, in my chair. As I could do nothing about the undue appropriation other than direct a look of disapproval at him, I occupied a table at the far end of the awning-covered veranda. He must be a lost tourist. I didn’t pay him any great attention and left once I had finished my wine.
The next afternoon, I saw the same man in my space. I installed myself beside him, dragging the chair and table in an irritated demonstration. He didn’t move, but I noticed the shadow of a smile on his lips, which looked as if they had been shaped by a palette knife. That bothered me so much that I decided to forgo the glass of wine. . .
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