Naranjo the Muse: A Collection of Stories

by Omar S Castaneda, Omar S Castaaneda

These stories are not just about stories, but about how each of us envisions our life as storyteller. Naranjo the Muse also deals with resisting the oppression of everyday existence.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Mari · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sometimes the short stores were difficult to read and felt that they dragged on. Then I did research on the author themselves and discovered that Omar Castaneda had died from a drug overdose, particularly Heroin. The short stories began to make sense afterward in their construct, sometimes being farfetched in existentialism and hallucination. With that in mind, to make sense when your mind is not making sense, and to construct a collection of short stories investigating the human experience in sometimes not the best of light, the female who was sleeping around with other men, the professor who was being inappropriate with his students, the neighbor who was killing the towns dogs in the middle of the night, the artist who was exposing the truth of the towns people in her art work, the old musician who captured the life of the town in his music, but never thought himself as important. I enjoyed some of the stories, but to read this all over again in its entirety, no.