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anthofer 's review for:
The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
by Daniel Alarcón
Alarcon loves myths but doesn't let them get in the way of the cold reality of contemporary capitalism in Middle and North America. In his hands the myths and archetypes of an older tradition of literature don't mystify but reveal the possibility of resistance to the social structures that are oppressing his characters, even as they often succumb to the darkness.