Centroeuropa – Vicente Luis Mora

The situation could not have been more frustrating, because I hadn’t the slightest idea of what I was saying and my inner Helmut and Peter were howling and grunting, demanding nature follow its course. Thankfully tiny Regina, wisely silencing the other molecular voices and reminding my other parts, selves, and excited glands and organs that I could not, in any way, talk or act in an uncontrolled manner and risk revealing myself and losing everything I’d achieved so far, and once more I blessed that tiny portion of my psyche that managed to impose sense in the midst of that chaotic whirlwind of heat and desire that were already ravaging the lower two thirds of my body, allowing an excuse to escape from my mouth: What an idiot!

I came to buy something but I’ve forgotten my money. I put kilometers of distance, deserts of time, and oceans of space between myself and that sinuous portent of nature. Despite Ingeborg’s friendly shouts, rapidly fading in volume due to the speed of my flight, assuring me that money wasn’t necessary, that she could trust me, asking why I was leaving so quickly, had she said or done something that might have annoyed me, the poor thing, what an enchanting woman, what a nightmare of a woman, I fled her dominion like a soul being taken by the devil—something I was all too familiar with—promising to never again set foot in this part of Szonden.

At least not until a few years had passed. Or a year, I was unfamiliar with local mourning customs. Or six months, if it was in secret, nothing less.

© 2020 by Vicente Luis Mora Originally published by Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. in Spanish as Centroeuropa First published in English in 2023 by Peninsula Press Translation © 2023 by Rahul Bery This is a work of fiction. Characters, organizations, events, and places (even those that are actual) are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Cover photograph © Keith Corrigan / Alamy Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Mora, Vicente Luis, author.

| Bery, Rahul, translator. Title: Centroeuropa / Vicente Luis Mora ; translated by Rahul Bery. Other titles: Centroeuropa. English Description: First edition. | New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2026. Identifiers: LCCN 2025006991 | ISBN 9781954276529 (paperback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781954276536 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Europe, Central–History–19th century–Fiction. | LCGFT: Historical fiction. | Novels.

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STENDHAL, The Pink and the Green (1837) The people at the top are again busy making world-history. T. FONTANE, Before the Storm (1878) Through all the solitudes, through ocean-wide chaos, she has brought me back again to land! J. W.

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