Dreams Older Than Memory

Esther Seligson

1973

The alphabet doesn’t have enough letters, you say, to form the names of so many inexpressible feelings, unexpressed for lack of words, and I say to you that we don’t have enough life, that too much longing weighs on us for such a short time, that too many worries seethe in so little space. Perhaps it’s not the letters’ fault but the fact that, as…

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Esther Seligson

1941–2010

Born into a family of Orthodox Jews in Mexico City, Esther Seligson had a prolific writing and teaching career that began in her twenties. She wrote prize-winning novels, short stories, and poetry, contributed to periodicals, and translated literary and philosophical works by authors such as Yourcenar, Woolf, and Cioran into Spanish. Having studied at various academic institutions in Mexico, France, and Israel, Seligson became a teacher of wide-ranging subjects including theater, Jewish philosophy, medieval art, and comparative religion. Her work was furthered and focused by foreign travel, with visits to or residence in many parts of the world, including Paris, Lisbon, and Jerusalem. She died in Mexico City.

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