Life Elsewhere

Guadalupe Nettel

Guadalupe Nettel’s short story, Life Elsewhere, translated by Rosalind Harvey, was published in the March 11, 2025 issue of the Yale Review.

“I’d been working for two years in a ministry for the Generalitat of Catalonia. According to Anna, I should thank heaven for my crappy job and leave acting to my spare time, as she did with her illustrating. But that autumn, I devised a new strategy to get back into it: spending time around the youngsters who still had respect for actors of my generation. I organized various dinners in order to meet directors. Our dinner guests congratulated us on the apartment, but they never offered me any work in their plays, not even as an assistant set designer. Winter was approaching and the situation remained the same.”