R. de la Lanza

R. DE LA LANZA (Mexico City, 1977) holds a degree in classics and has worked as a college and university professor teaching literature and communication. He is a screenwriter, literary editor, and fiction writer. He has also composed music for home films. He loves mythology and philosophy and is an enthusiastic reader of psychoanalysis. Eleusis: The Long and Winding Road is his first published novel.

Excerpt from Eleusis: The Long and Winding Road, Translated and introduced by James Goldberg.

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

In 2014, R. de la Lanza spent his morning commute feverishly writing. All through the long bus ride from his home in the southern part of Mexico City to his work at a university in the famed Roma neighborhood, he poured out a story that had been forming in his head for five years, he says, “like clouds gathering for the storm.”