🎭 Culture Jun 8, 2026 · Tere Dávila and Rebecca Hanssens-Reed

The Summer of Lion Meat

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The Summer of Lion Meat
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Robinet Testard, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Translator’s Note: This piece uses the medieval-period translation technique of inserting metacommentary directly into the text when a detail is dubious or has no verifiably accurate translation. The technique is used here to highlight, play with, and contribute to Dávila’s own footnotes regarding unreliable facts within the autofictional narrative. This version adds another layer to the communally constructed story, first published in Spani

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