Final list of "good beginnings" received for the I part of the IV Short Story Contest of the International Institute
ADULT CATEGORY – IN SPANISH:
1. 'Cain turns life over in his head“. Cain, Jose Saramago.
2. 'The problem with the unicorn is that he is not known as a female”. Cain, Jose Saramago.
3. 'In the midst of this aquatic convulsion ready to engulf everything”. Cain, Jose Saramago.
4. 'There was one, there won't be another and no one will miss her”. Cain, Jose Saramago.
5. 'So I won't be punished for my crime”. Cain, Jose Saramago.
6. 'One afternoon, in the abandonment of gentle caresses”. Pipa, Leopoldo Alas, Clarin.
7. 'no one remembers him anymore”. Pipa, Leopoldo Alas, Clarin.
8. 'Tito gulped down the impotence of his army”. The assassins of the Emperor, Santiago Posteguillo.
9. 'He started to turn away from there and…”. The assassins of the Emperor, Santiago Posteguillo.
10. 'We melted into a warm hug and he dropped his toupee”. The entanglement of life and the stock market, Eduardo Mendoza.
11. 'I don't really know anything”. The entanglement of life and the stock market, Eduardo Mendoza.
12. 'While waiting for the return of the swami”. The entanglement of life and the stock market, Eduardo Mendoza.
13. 'His father gave him an affectionate and sonorous capon”. The entanglement of life and the stock market, Eduardo Mendoza.
14. 'It was not the triumphant arrival they had imagined”. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling.
15. 'Across the dungeon was a long table”. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling.
16. 'What they saw was incredible”. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by JK Rowling.
17. 'The night was falling apart around me like an absurd playing card where no one definitely won.”. Opium in the clouds, Rafael Chaparro Madiedo.
18. 'I'm not Arnold Schwarzenegger, but my arms are stronger than they seem.” Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami.
19. 'Beautiful is the kingdom of love, but sad too”. History of the heart, Vicente Aleixandre.
20. 'I remember you as you were last summer”. Neruda, Angelina Gatell.
21. 'Climbing up the winding slope of Saint Agnes Cemetery, jumping on the bed of the old truck, Francis Phelan discovered that the dead crowd neighborhoods, even more so than the living.”. Iron Stem by William Kennedy.
22. 'I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too”. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda.
23. 'Singing partners, the time that passes will have the shape and sound of guitar and when you want to lean into the past, the transparent time spring will reveal your singing integrity.” Elementary Odes, Pablo Neruda.
24. 'That year the oranges were more abundant than usual”. The Alexandria Quartet- Clea, Lawrence Durrell.
25. 'It's a starry night”. The invisible cities, Italo Calvino.
26. 'They were both silent for a long time..” Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse.
27. 'In Chloe, a big city, the people who pass through the streets do not know each other.” The invisible cities, Italo Calvino.
28. 'I will start by saying, about the days and years of my childhood, that my only unforgettable character was the rain.” I confess that I have lived, Pablo Neruda.
29. 'I have spoken with gods, I have loved women and I have written songs that make bards cry; maybe you've heard of me.” The name of the wind, Patrick Rothfuss.
30. 'The alarm clock rang at twenty minutes to seven“. The path of the sheep, Beatriz de Mena.
31. "They slithered like snakes, camouflaged like chameleons, killed like lions, fled like gazelles.“. The altar of the gods, Beatriz de Mena.
32. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.
33. 'Halfway through our life's journey I found myself in a dark jungle.” The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.
34. 'The day dawned extraordinarily gray and cold.” Build a fire, Jack London.
35. 'Grandma didn't want to go to Florida.” A good man is hard to find, Flannery O'Connor.
36. 'At the bottom of the Atlantic there is a book.” Samarkand, Amin Maalouf.
37. 'All this happened, more or less.” Slaughterhouse 5 or the children's crusade, Kurt Vonnegut.
38. 'Since I was a child, I have had an innate impulsiveness that runs in my family and that has only created problems for me..” Botchan, Natsume Soseki.
39. 'As there is so much flu, they have had to close the University.” The gray notebook, Josep Pla.
40. 'The story had kept us listening breathlessly around the fire.” Another twist, Henry James.
41. 'And that song is our amulet.” Amulet, Roberto Bolaño.
42. 'They say that it first came from Africa, in the screams of the slaves, that it was the perdition of the chestnuts, just a whisper while a world was extinguished and another was emerging.” The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz.
43. 'Things could have happened any other way, and yet they did..” The way, Miguel Delibes.
44. 'In the workshop of the soul, desires mature, tenderness grows, fresh and lush, imitating your shadow, inventing your absence so deep and sustained.” Poetry 1935-1968, Efraín Huerta.
45. 'Green I want you green”. Sleepwalking Romance, Federico Garcia Lorca.
46. 'I know they accuse me of arrogance, and perhaps of misanthropy, and perhaps of madness” Story The house of Asterion from El Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges.
47. 'For some strange reason I had made up my mind that the day my soul died"The Lost Angel, Javier Sierra.
48. 'A week ago, my grandmother hugged me without tears at the airport"Maya's notebook, Isabel Allende.
49. 'The place where she huddled was dark, but the little girl did as she was ordered."The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton.
50. 'The ghosts that followed her stayed behindImpostures, John Banville.
51. 'It was useless, nothing equaled the flavor of life that is in the booksDifficult loves, Italo Calvino.
52. 'There is a constant challenge between heaven and earthly interestsEugénie Grandet, Honore de Balzac.
53. 'Silence has long been our most frequent conversation"The Silence of the Tartars, Dino Buzzati.
54. 'One of the advantages of this world is being able to hate and be hated without knowing each other.” The bride and groom, Alessandro Manzoni
55. 'Traveling was his way of getting drunk. Thus, the flight became his homeland"Escape and End of Joseph Roth, Soma Morgenstern.
56. 'If people laugh at you for being innocent and sincere, then this world has no solution.Botchan, Natsume Soseki.
57. 'Because, no matter how you looked at it, last night she had him crucified” Dream story, Arthur Schnitzler.
58. 'Don't stay there. Come on, come in, we're all here."The Dark Room, Isaac Rosa.
59. 'My optic nerve pulled the parking brakeDies Irae, César Pérez Gellida.
60. 'One day in August, perhaps still July, perhaps in early September” Inés and joy, Almudena Grandes.
61. 'The colonel uncovered the coffee pot and found that there was no more than a teaspoon”. The colonel has no one to write to him, Gabriel García Márquez.
62. 'The gentlemen of the jury retired to deliberate“. The queen of evil, Wilkie Collins.
63. 'I just visited the owner of my house, the only neighbor I will have to suffer.” Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë.
64. 'One day, already advanced in years, in the lobby of a public building, a man approached me.” The lover, Marguerite Duras.
65. 'With silver tintin and crystals in her clenched hands, the maid looked at the patroncito, doubtful, questioning..” Tirano Banderas, Ramon del Valle-Inclan.
66. 'Aureliano witnessed the execution, because not doing so was confessing guilt.” Theologians, Jorge Luis Borges.
67. 'The end of the story is only referable in metaphors, since it happens in the kingdom of heaven, where there is no time."The Theologians, Jorge Luis Borges.
68. 'That day, the Yellow Emperor showed his palace to the poet.” Parable of the Palace, Jorge Luis Borges.
69. 'From early Friday morning, I felt the relief of being on the final day and the remorse of feeling no remorse.. "The unworthy, Jorge Luis Borges.
70. 'He said those things and didn't take his eyes off her. Now she was sporting a knife in her right hand. Man of the pink corner, Jorge Luis Borges.
71. 'His days and nights were the same, but they weighed heavier on Sundays.Avelino Arredondo. Jorge Luis Borges.
72. 'And keep your ill-earned coin"The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl.
73. 'I will chew the sound that names you” Where the world is called Celanova, Celso Emilio Ferreiro.
ADULT CATEGORY – IN ENGLISH:
1. 'Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston.
2. 'The next day wasn't much different than the previous.” "Dance, dance dance", Haruki Murakami.
3. 'There wasn't a sound inside the emaciated chest cavity.” Slaughter House 5. Kurtz Vonnegut.
4. 'A telephone was ringing in the darkness- a tiny, unfamiliar ring”. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown.
5. 'He did not remember when he had first started to talk aloud when he was by himself.” The old and the sea, Ernest Hemingway.
6. 'I first met Dean after my wife and I split up.” On the road, Jack Kerouac.
7. 'Congratulations! Today is your day”. Oh the places you'll go, Dr. Seuss.
8. 'The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him "Wild thing!" »”. Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak.
9. 'I can decide for myself whether I'm offended or not”. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
10. 'If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and Thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable.” The End, Lemony Snicket.
11. 'Don't say another word, your grace, because if you were to hear all this you'd go out of your mind with happiness”. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes.
12. 'It began one day in summer about 30 years ago, and it happened to four children.Half Magic, Edward Eager.
13. 'Call me Ishmael” Moby-Dick or The Whale, Herman Melville.
14. 'Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen houses for the night, but was too drunk to shut the pop-holesAnimal Farm, George Orwell. (proposal received twice)
15. 'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.”The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood.
CHILDREN/JUVENILE CATEGORY – IN SPANISH:
1. 'It was a cold winter day and the snowflakes were falling like white feathers..” Snow White, Brothers Grimm.
CHILDREN/JUVENILE CATEGORY – IN ENGLISH:
1. 'The sun did not shine it was too wet to play so we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day” The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss.
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The jury will deliberate this week and decide on the award next Monday, November 25.
One winner per category will be selected from among all the proposals received, who will receive as a prize a set of books from the Siruela publishing house, editorial collaborator of the contest.
See more details at:
http://bibliotecaiie.wordpress.com/i-concurso-de-microrrelatos-del-instituto-internacional/
