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202 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1964
鈥業 wonder what someone who could read my mind would think, if he were walking beside me now.鈥�
This was a question he often asked himself. Occasionally, he would even play at making up problems for the unknown mind reader to solve. He would say all kinds of things to him; sometimes telling him the truth about himself, and at other times just being crude and insulting. Then, as if he were talking on the telephone, he would pause suddenly in his narrative and listen for a reply. Quite obviously he never got one.
鈥楬e would probably think that I鈥檓 homosexual.鈥�
But he wasn鈥檛 homosexual, he didn鈥檛 have a sufficiently religious mind for that. Every homosexual is a sort of would-be Christ. And Christ, Trelkovsky thought, was a homosexual whose eyes were larger than his belly鈥檚 appetite. People like that simply wanted to bleed for humanity; it was nauseating.
鈥業 suppose I think that way because I am a man, after all. God knows what I might think if I had been born a woman鈥︹€�
丕诏乇 讴鬲丕亘蹖 讴賴 賲蹖 禺賵丕賳蹖賲 亘丕 囟乇亘賴 丕蹖 爻賳诏蹖賳 亘賴 噩賲噩賲賴鈥屬呚з� 亘蹖丿丕乇賲丕賳 賳讴賳丿貙 趩乇丕 亘丕蹖丿 丌賳 乇丕 亘禺賵丕賳蹖賲責 讴賴 卮丕丿賲丕賳 讴賳丿責 賲丕 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳蹖賲 亘丿賵賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕 賴賲 卮丕丿 亘丕卮蹖賲. 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 賲丕 丕丨鬲蹖丕噩 丿丕乇蹖賲 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏й屰� 爻鬲 讴賴 賲孬賱 賵丕賯毓賴 丕蹖 賵丨卮鬲賳丕讴 亘乇 賲丕 賳丕夭賱 卮賵賳丿. 賲孬賱 夭禺賲 賲乇诏 讴爻蹖 讴賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 禺賵丿賲丕賳 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕乇蹖賲 蹖丕 賲孬賱 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 噩賳诏賱鈥屬囏й� 禺丕賱蹖 丕夭 丕賳爻丕賳 诏賲 卮丿賴鈥屫й屬�. 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏� 亘丕蹖丿 丿蹖賱賲蹖 亘丕卮賳丿 亘乇丕蹖 卮讴爻鬲賳 蹖禺 丿乇賵賳鈥屬呚з�. 讴丕賮讴丕
鈥溾€� un joven de unos treinta a帽os, correcto, educado, que detestaba por encima de todo las complicaciones鈥�Sobre la trama, mejor que se conformen con lo que se cuenta en la sinopsis, no quiero hurtarles ni una sola de las posibilidades que ofrece la novela. Sobre el tema principal, no hay uno solo, yo dir铆a que es la sumisi贸n al parecer ajeno y el miedo al otro, lo cual no puede estar m谩s de actualidad. Sobre lo que se van a encontrar si toman la buena decisi贸n de leerlo, solo les puedo decir lo que ya puse en mi comentario a 鈥淎costarse con la reina y otras delicias鈥� (perd贸n por la autocita, pero me parece una estupidez intentar buscar otra manera de decir lo mismo que, bien o mal, ya dije all铆):
鈥淎 fuerza de tenerle por una v铆ctima, pod铆an llegar a convertirse en sus verdugos鈥�