Translating Violence and Silence.

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  • Author(s): Snyder, D. P.
  • Source:
    World Literature Today. Jul/Aug2022, Vol. 96 Issue 4, p37-37. 3/4p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Silence; Penance (Short story); Civil war; Confessors; Church buildings
    • Abstract:
      The author discusses violence and silence in short story "Penance" by Octavio Escobar Giraldo and mentions that the story provides portrait of scars of social violence through tranquil depiction. Topics discussed include death of several people in the civil war from 1946 to 1964, ritual language between parishioner and confessor, and vandalized LGBTQ-friendly church.