Critical Praise for

The Friend of the Desert and Pablo d’Ors

“A sublime performance. At the outset The Friend of the Desert occupies the beguiling territory of Robert Walser, Jane Bowles, or Georges Perec, but soon develops an allegorical intensity all its own; as it reaches its remarkable climax, each gesture seems to stand absolutely for itself, and also for the reader’s unnameable desires.”

—JONATHAN LETHEM, Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn

“The particular intensity of d’Ors’ writing recalls the best of Bolaño.”

—PABLO M. ZARRACINA, El Correo Español

“Since Bolaño there has been no new novelty in the Spanish narrative, nor a more original literary approach.”

—MIHÁLY DÉS, Lateral

“Pablo d’Ors is a sublime writer.”

—GABI MARTÍNEZ, Qué Leer

“Pablo d’Ors is the most European of all Spanish writers—his works are ontologies.”

—DIEGO MEDRANO, El Comercio

“The books written by Pablo d’Ors are not like any other books…. His is a traveled and cosmopolitan literature.”

—ELOY TIZÓN, Velocidad en los jardines