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Mauro Javier Cärdenas

@ineluctablequak.bsky.social
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Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS (Dalkey) APHASIA (FSG) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN (Coffee House Press).

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love this deep dive into Adam Ouston's Mine by @emmettstinson.bsky.social over at @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/written-as-a...
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Written as a single sentence, Adam Ouston’s Mine is a novel under the influence
In Mine, Adam Ouston reveals the contradictions between Tasmania’s conception of itself and its history of human and environmental devastation.
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andrea! No habia chequeado este app en mucho tiempo! Que alegria conocerte en persona. Aqui La foto:
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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In which yours truly goes to see surrealist art in Paris, then writes about it in @thetls.bsky.social . My life is not perfect but you will have to take that on faith. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Burn-out
I don’t regularly follow coverage of the Met Gala, but this year one image caught my eye. It was of an expressionless, and surprisingly small, woman in a
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Dorian Stuber @ds228.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Pleased that my review of Gabriele Tergit’s masterpiece Effingers ran in this weekend’s @wsj.com www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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‘Effingers’ Review: Days and Nights in Berlin
A 1951 novel traces a German-Jewish family and its fortunes through the generations.
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I blocked everyone on Twitter who didn’t like The Longcut by Emily Hall lol
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Jonathan Moreland has been writing an amazing book on the long sentence in contemporary fiction, with chapters on Krasznahorkai, Ellman, Fosse, and my novels. Here’s a Q&A we did recently for Global South Literary Studies. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IUZYK...
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The impulse sentences: Mauro Javier Cárdenas in conversation with Jonathan Moreland
Since 2016, Mauro Javier Cárdenas, an Ecuadorian author based in the United States, has been experimenting with the most primary unit of linguistic discourse: the sentence. Across three novels, he ...
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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Moresco on his œuvre — now @minorliteratures.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/i...
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Testing / testing
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Posting some books I enjoyed in 2025 to see if anyone’s here
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Chunkin’ Deuces✌️ @thiccceywicket.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
American Abductions by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social published by the good folks at @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Join us for a discussion of Michael Lentz's 1001 page novel Schattenfroh with translator Max Lawton and author Mauro Javier Cardenas Date and time Thursday, October 30 · 7 - 9pm PDT www.eventbrite.com/e/schattenfr...
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Schattenfroh: Max Lawton and Mauro Javier Cardenas at Womb House Books
Eventbrite - Womb House Books presents Schattenfroh: Max Lawton and Mauro Javier Cardenas at Womb House Books - Thursday, October 30, 2025 at Womb House Books, Oakland, CA. Find event and ticket infor...
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Here
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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Finally read _American Abductions_ by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social while I'm down with covid. No disappointment. Haven't seen any blurbs mention Dostoevsky yet, but I'm ready to call it _The Sisters Brzeszczykowski_. @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
Cover of American Abductions, the third novel by Mauro Javier Cardenas, with a reproduction of Leonora Carrington's "Labyrinth" in the bottom half of the design. The painting shows a labyrinth of hedges with figures making their way through. Some are white, some black, some red. A red bird figure at the entrance looks like Max Ernst's totem. A prominent black horse with a large, wide-open, staring golden eye has a white acrobat in red socks doing a headstand on its back. Farther along are more horses, people following a pair of oxen, more Ernst-like bird figures, people bearing branches, and towards the center of the labyrinth, what looks like a white figure receiving a blessing from a black figure.
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Two books I’ve been reading excitedly this week: Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener & the new essay collection by Yoko Tawada
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Wondering what big outlet will pay me to do a small press books roundup every month or two because it seems like this is more necessary now than ever
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Marco Soria @marcobook.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Emocionado hasta la médula @ineluctablequak.bsky.social
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Zimbabwe has enough problems without hadedas @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 10/03/2025
Like I keep saying: It's all very American Abductions x Mauro Javier Cárdenas
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Fergal Byrne @agendaearth.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Absolutely. More recent but also very excellent -and terrifying-American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Blurbs from Lemony Snicket, Joanna Ruocco, Brian Evenson, Brandon Shimoda, & Carol Guess 🤯🥺😭 www.neonpajamas.com/pizama-press...
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Hey look there’s a project on the influence of Thomas Bernhard on contemporary literature 💕
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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
amazing book mail from two great used book shops on Instagram, Apport Used Books and Barbed Wyre Books. Also two new releases from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and an order from a recent sale at @versobooks.bsky.social, excited to get to these books✨📚
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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Next up is American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas—been looking forward to this one since it came out
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
so as not to be driven mad Thomas Bernhard, ‘Madness’, in ‘The Voice Imitator’, tr Kenneth J. Northcott
MADNESS
A postman was suspended in Lend because for years he had not delivered any letter that he thought contained sad news or, in the nature of things, any of the cards announcing a death that came his way, but had burned them all in his own home. The post office finally had him committed to the lunatic asylum in Scherrnberg, where he goes around in a postman's uniform and continually delivers letters that are deposited by the asylum's administration in a letter box specially built into one of the walls of the asylum and that are addressed to his fellow patients. According to reports, the postman asked for his uniform as soon as he was committed to the lunatic asylum in Scherrnberg so as not to be driven mad.
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 08/01/2025
haha I’m so fucking scared for the future
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Fantastic close reading by @evand.bsky.social of AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel. “It is also a book filled with humor and hard-earned joy, suffused with a rare philosophical intelligence that saves it from any hint of mawkishness.” evanreads.substack.com/p/actually-p...
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Actually Pretty Good: American Abductions
On Mauro Javier Cárdenas's dispatch from the future of the deportation machine
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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Start your 2025 off right by tuning into the mind of the Collective! go.bsky.app/UrzZa6j
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Fantastic book pile
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Dramatically, melodramatically, or obliquely: American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2024/12/29/d...
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Dramatically, melodramatically, or obliquely: American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
. . . no, Antonio says to his daughters during dinner, Americans can’t imagine the conditions, and if they can’t imagine the conditions, they can’t imagine themselves as refugees, and if they can’t…
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PK @pklawton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Fav SciFi - Roadside Picnic Fav Crime - forgot to include Derek Raymond’s “He Died With His Eyes Open” but that Best book that got an ugly cry out of me: Satantango Best 2024 release: American Abductions by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Someone should write a Compendium of Writers Attempting to Self-Induce New Circuitries.
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Daniel Saldaña París @dsparis.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Lo mejor de estas fechas es la manera en que la convivencia familiar borra de un plumazo el paso del tiempo y los años de terapia y te regresa al mismo estado de ansiedad y frustración de la infancia y adolescencia. Y la ensalada de manzana.
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I saw this once in Berkeley as a Merce Cunningham dance 💕
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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My new bookmark. Sorry, Greg Ginn…
American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas (Dalkey Archive, 2024) with an SST Superstore catalog used as a bookmark.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/12/2024
DOGE is a fake government agency designed to provide flimsy "innovative efficiency" cover to corrupt robber barons as they dismantle federal corporate oversight and sell the country for scrap off the back loading dock any politicians or journalists helping the performance should be laughed at
Ro Khanna praising DOGE in a tweet
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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Small press recommendation. From the mighty @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social, American Abductions, by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social. Read this book for so many reasons: for a sense of what sentences can do, for an important reflection on the state of the rotten world, for the best kind of challenge.
The cover of the book American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cardenas
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James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Nice allusive text dude, very erudite. Maybe next time you’ll be able to come up with your own ideas
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is the way
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speedy ortiz ÷ sad13 ÷ sadie dupuis ÷ haunted guy @sad13.horse · 01/12/2024
september-october-november dispatch 🐰💦 ft. Sarah Gerard @annakornbluh.bsky.social Blythe Roberson, Wei Tchou @sarahmanguso.bsky.social Barbara Molinard, Anne Carson, Nora Lange @samheaps.bsky.social Kathy Acker @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social Walter Scott @ineluctablequak.bsky.social & Bianca Xunise
92. Carrie Carolyn Coco by Sarah Gerard (Zando Projects)
93. Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism  by Anna Kornbluh (Verso)
94. America the Beautiful? by Blythe Roberson (Harper Perennial)
95. Little Seed by Wei Tchou (A Strange Object)
96. Liars by Sarah Manguso (Hogarth)
97. Panics by Barbara Molinard (Feminist Press)
98. Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions)
99. Us Fools by Nora Lange (Two Dollar Radio)
100. Proximity by Sam Heaps (Clash)
101. Great Expectations by Kathy Acker (Grove Atlantic)
102. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
103. The Wendy Award by Walter Scott (Drawn & Quarterly)
104. American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas (Dalkey Archive Press)
105. Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise (Viking)
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I hereby promise never to go on vacation abroad again unless it is for research for a book. 👹
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Gonna be hilarious when the AI complains the New York Times didn’t cover their books 🤖
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Every day of tourism is at least 100 words I didn't write
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
All I wanted was to have more followers than my nemeses.
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
What are some of the great anti-privatization films? Touch of Sin by Jia Zhangke comes to mind. 🔥
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
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My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS
Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...
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Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Okay select your favorite USA writer: 1) Gerald Murnane 2) Yoko Tawada 3) Antonio Lobo Antunes
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Israel A. Bonilla @israelbonilla.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Alvin manages something extremely difficult here: the sustainment of narrative momentum and the meticulous vigilance of language. There are passages that are overwhelming in their energy. Eminently made to last.
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