The Jaguar Sun
Fiction, from 1983: “I sat there facing her, but at the same time it was as if a part of me, or all of me, were contained in her mouth, crunched, torn shred by shred.”
Italo Calvino, "The Jaguar Sun": "Olivia spoke. She said, 'I would like to eat chiles en nogada.'" Love, death, and appetite intertwined in Mexico, sensory experience as ultimate knowledge.