David Doherty, We Trade Our Night for Someone Elses Day The tradition of literature in, not only in Argentina, but I think in what we can call the Rio de la Plata Uruguay, too has this element of fantastic stories, and a literature that is not as close to realism as the literature of other places. WebIn effect, Enriquezs short fiction is populated by women suppressed by patriarchal necropolitics: lesbian teenagers (The Inn), girls both sexual and cruel (The Intoxicated Choi Jin-young. Trans. On her decision to mix Argentine history with the supernatural. At moments the main narratives pipe through clearly, and at others we find ourselves attuned to staticky, liminal frequencies. Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina. Even when we believe that the monsters have taken over, Enriquez reminds us that there are always human beings at the controls. It's his death that precipitates the nervous breakdown that costs Tom his job, and Savannah, almost, her life. This is a haunted story, and Enriquez has given voice to the victims of the Dirty War, and the generations that were harmed by its legacy. Maria Stepanova. The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquezs grand, eloquent, and startling new novel, Our Share of Night, begins during this crisis and unfolds across subsequent and preceding years. (Flatiron Books/Associated Press/Los Angeles Times) By Dorany Pineda Staff Writer. In an interview with the whole band, they were asked what this song really was all about was it meant to symbolize the end of the band? Trans. When a waitress at a diner asks Gaspar where his mother is, Juan feels the boys pain in his entire body. It is primitive and wordless, raw and vertiginous. Later, when Juan and Gaspar check into a hotel, we learn that Gaspar might be similarly giftedas theyre walking down a hallway, Gaspar senses an otherworldly presence and instead of avoiding it he was drawn to it and was going toward it. Juan manages to pull his son away, but he mourns the fact that Gaspar is burdened with an inherited condemnation.. The scene in which Stella adopts her White persona is a tour de force of doubling and confusion. Mayra Santos-Febres. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed,which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the M ariana Enrquez, 48, lives in Buenos Aires. She is the author of nine books, including two short story collections, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Things We Lost in the Fire, both translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell. I'm 43; I'm a bit older than the children of the disappeared, but not all of them because some have my age, some are older etc. Misha Hoekstra, The Voice Over: Poems and Essays Dangerss stress on girls and women expertly draws the profound connection between supernaturally tinged horror and the violent degradation of a cultures most vulnerable. ; Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Rita Nezami, The Divorce Ed. It turns out that a surreal event is best described in surreal terms. A DEAD BABYand her haunted great-niece open The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquezs collection of disquieting short stories. translated by So to me, when I started writing stories, I thought, How can I mix this? Bennett keeps all these plot threads thrumming and her social commentary crisp. Zhang Ling. What have the artists said about the song? Yamen Manai. Mariana Enrquezs Buenos Aires, meanwhile, is scarred by decades of austerity, squalor and inequality, deadly misogyny, and the disappearance of around Can't love if you don't. Leonardo Padura. In Angelita Unearthed, the eponymous infant wears its feet down to the little white bones as it follows the narrator into an irresolute ending. Mariana Enrquez Victims of the regimesuspected dissidents or subversiveswere abducted, tortured, and murdered, and many were buried in unmarked, mass graves. To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum. Mariana Enriquez is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. Leonardo Valencia. So to me it's a mixture that comes very [naturally] when I think about the tradition of my literature. In terms of the story, though, thats when it does shift. Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. All Rights Reserved. I don't want to write about women that are, let's say, good and angelic women, goddesses. I'm thinking about [Jorge Luis] Borges, [Julio] Cortzar, but also Felisberto Hernndez and, before, Roberto Arlt. Categories: Sonallah Ibrahim. [2] I did not try specifically to write about the dictatorship and its consequences in the present, but I couldn't hide away from it when [it] kept appearing in the stories. Originally published in 2017, this new translation by Megan McDowell follows Enriquezs lauded collection The Things We Lost in the Fire (2016, Eng. Our Share of Night features a cast of alluring characters enmeshed in a crackling story, but it is also, in so many ways, a book about how violence haunts and destabilizes a civilization. Se recibi de Licenciada en Comunicacin Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. There are two very different tales of haunted houses in The Inn, in which a tourist hotel built on a former police barracks contains forces unknown; and Adelas House, in which the title character steps through a door in an abandoned houseand is never seen again. There were a lot of echoes now, Enriquez writes. During the Dirty Waras during the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, and the genocide of Indigenous Americans, among many other examplesour worst, most unrelenting nightmares ceased to exist only within the realm of our imagination. Vera and I are going to be beautiful and light, nocturnal and earthy; beautiful, the crusts of earth unfolding us. Trans. A Surgery of a Star An infinite scroll of carnage and death plays in the background of this book: Juan and Gaspar observe a succession of ghostly presences (including one who had no hair and wore a blue dress), and Tali, Rosarios half sister, sees spirits while consulting her tarot deck. How? "I was a bit lonely when I was little and fiction is very important in my life. Trans. In the opening story, The Dirty Kid, a graphic designer becomes obsessed with a homeless pregnant woman and her son, a mania that worsens when the decapitated body of a child is dumped nearby. Tr. McDowell notes, Mariana Enriquezs particular genius catches us off guard by how quickly we can slip from the familiar into a new and unknown horror (Enriquez, 202). In line with this observation, McDowells translation is often almost mundane in tone, which increases the shock effect when it comes. My dear, 'cause I'd stay near. Web1Mariana Enrquez (Buenos Aires, 1973-) is a journalist and writer who combines in her horror fiction the reality of Argentine history with elements of the gothic horror style while maintaining a sharp focus on social criticism. Each provocative tale elicits shudders and, often, repulsion. By the end of the day, it all came down to terrible characterisation, dreadful dialogue, the wrong approach regarding structure and what it seems to me lacking the required skills when trying to put all the pieces together. There may be a barely-glimpsed smaller novel buried in all this succotash (Tom's marriage and life as a football coach), but it's sadly overwhelmed by the book's clumsy central narrative device (flashback ad infinitum) and Conroy's pretentious prose style: ""There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. This period of state terror, the so-called Dirty War, has left a legacy of trauma that bedevils Argentina to this day. In Things We Lost in the Fire, Enriquez explores the darker sides of life in Buenos Aires: drug abuse, hallucinations, homelessness, murder, illegal abortion, disability, suicide, and disappearance, to name but a few. Through these characters, Enriquez develops the interpersonal effects of Argentinas larger socioeconomic landscape. Jessica Cohen, Slipping Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Trans. This novel operates as a kind of radio, constantly switching among stations. The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secretsfirst in her lauded debut, The Mothers (2016), and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line. End of Term is an account of a students violent self-harming, with an inevitable twist. Robin Moger. WebMariana Enrquez ( Buenos Aires, 1973) is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. I'm coming Trans. Trans. Dark, haunting and raw. The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez shows how violence can haunt and destabilize a civilization. Grandmother Finds Grandson, Abducted In Argentina's Dirty War, Justice For Argentina's 'Stolen Children;' 2 Dictators Convicted. Its interesting that Natalia ends up appealing to the Virgin for her revenge. Spiderweb: 1/5 End of Term: 3/5 No Flesh Over Our Bones: 1/5 The Neighbors Courtyard: 3/5 Under the Black Water: 4/5 Green Red Orange: 1/5 Things We Lost in the Yet the wonder of this book is that she shows us, time and again, that the supposedly impersonal forces of terror that act on our lives arent as remote as they seem. Constantin Severin & Slim FitzGerald, Wild Swims: Stories Se recibi de Licenciada en Comunicacin Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Vanessa Prez-Rosario, Kazbek She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.Our Share of Night was awarded the prestigious Premio Li Juan. Anna Kushner, The Pleasure Marriage The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquezs grand, Magdalena Mullek, Out of the Cage This passage clearly evokes the experiences of those who were killed throughout the Dirty War, sacrificed to serve a god they could never appease. Mariana Enriquez is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed , which was short-listed for the Inter- national Booker Prize. Vera and I will be beautiful and light, nocturnal and earthly; beautiful, the crusts of earth enfolding us. ", On what inspired her to write about Argentina's dictatorship. Juan and Gaspar eventually arrive in Puerto Reyes, where Juan has been called to channel a force known as the Darkness, a supernatural entity that feeds on humansin Juans words, a savage god, a mad god. He and Gaspar are in town to participate in the annual Ceremonial, a ritual during which the most potent occult families in Argentina attempt to summon the Darkness and draw power from it to maintain their status. 405-325-4531, Translating the Wandering Birds of Shuri Kido, Somos Voces: A Bookstore That Brings Books out of the Closet, Writing the Almost Nothing of Life: A Conversation with Nomi Lefebvre, Giving Voice to Words: Translation as Collective Transformation in Zoque, Four Trickster Tales from Lwapula Province, Zambia. When she asks to see Maybe they expected pain. Trans. 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110 Each story is unsettling, but the collection is incredibly readable. Trans. Hyam Plutzik. A writer whose affinity for the horror genre is matched by the intensity of her social consciousness, Enriquez was kind enough to answer my questions about Argentine literary history, the occult nature of totalitarian regimes, the evil pleasures of Clive Barker, and much more.
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