Fantastic, horror and dread, dreamlike and supernatural, reign of the incongruous, social wandering, moral poverty, sexual misery, spiritualism, against a backdrop of dark rock or saturated and demonic guitars… Such is the universe of the Argentinian virtuoso Mariana Enriquez , 49, nicknamed in her country the "princesa del terror", revealed to the French public with the translation in 2017 of her masterful collection of short stories,
What we lost in the fire
.
Eight years earlier, she had published a set of twelve stories, collected under the title
Les Dangers de Smoking au Lit
, now presented to the French public.
Already, there was a crazy talent, that of an uninhibited novelist, admirer of Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Brontë and Hubert Selby, Nick Cave and David Cronenberg.
A young woman who was already presenting herself as the leader of this new wave of Latin American talent, marked by the dark reverse side of the decor and behind the scenes of violence: among them…
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