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.

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

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.”