Ignacio Padilla
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Ignacio Padilla (b. 1968) is a noted Mexican novelist and short story writer whose works have been translated into several languages. Perhaps most famous is Amphitryon, translated into English as Shadow Without a Name, a haunting tale of assumed identity and tragedy, set in Europe from the time of World War I into the early years of the Cold War. His short story collection Las antípodas y el siglo (English version Antipodes) features a more fantastical side of his writing, with evidence of the influence of Jorge Luis Borges. Espiral de artillería (2003, not yet available in English, though a short selection of the novel was published in The Anemone Sidecar 3 under the title "The Kindness of Strangers") takes place in an unnamed European country under totalitarian rule, examining the life of a doctor who creates a non-existent revolutionary hero in rebellion against the state. In June 2006 La Grutandel Toscano, which concerns the possible existence of Dante's Inferno in a cave in the Himalayas, was published.and that was that and that is all. He died later in the mountains, never to be seen again.
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