Who exactly is Eduardo Torres?
Any proper answer would have to come in phases. For starters, Torres is (or was—his existential standing is a matter of debate) a provincial literary critic hailing from San Blas, Mexico; an enemy of some and and mentor to many; the scripturient founder of the Sunday Cultural Supplement of El Heraldo de San Blas, “a daily paper that, much like the light of those stars still observable by the telescopes of astronomers after millions of years of extinction,” as his brother recalls, “continues to illuminate the hearths of the residents of San Blas even fifteen or twenty minutes after having been read.”
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