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Mariana Enriquez and that known terror

2023-02-22T09:38:12.445Z


Tickets to listen to the writer Mariana Enriquez read scary stories in March sold out in no time. A newspaper editor with years of editorial work said days ago that the great literary successes are always explained with the Monday newspaper . Wizard children were before and will be after the Harry Potter saga . Who would have thought that Scandinavian police officers would be so seductive? No one in their right mind would have foreseen the event of El infinito en un junco , the doctoral thesis


A newspaper editor with years of editorial work said days ago that

the great literary successes are always explained with the Monday newspaper

.

Wizard children were before and will be after the

Harry Potter

saga .

Who would have thought that

Scandinavian police officers

would be so seductive?

No one in their right mind would have foreseen the event of

El infinito en un junco

, the doctoral thesis of the Spanish

Irene Vallejo Moreu

, published in 2019 and which has sold one million copies worldwide.

The Argentine Mariana Enriquez is the new black swan

in search of an explanation.

Mariana Enriquez, pictured last year.

Before winning the 37th Herralde Novel Prize with

Nuestra parte de noche

(2019), which

triggered its international projection

, Enriquez had what is defined as a work.

A work, moreover, of the most coherent and seductive, even for those who are not horror readers.

His first novel written when he was barely 21 years old,

Going Down is the worst

(1995), was followed by

How to completely disappear

(2004) and

This is the sea

(2017);

the tales of

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

(2009) and

The Things We Lost in the Fire

(2016);

Someone walks on your grave.

My trips to cemeteries

(2013) and

The younger sister.

A portrait of Silvina Ocamp

o (2014), among other texts.

the power of the dark

But it was that dark Argentine story linked to the life of Juan and his son Gaspar, a book of

almost 700 pages

through which the

disappeared, powerful and unpunished families circulate, the power of desire and the dark

, which made its way throughout the world.

The Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez, in Avilés (Asturias) assures that living in permanent fear of economic and political crises "paradoxically helps to create horror stories" when writing about something that is well known.

EFE/ Alfredo Oliveros

For the newspaper

El País

, Enriquez's impact is

"overwhelming, global and unstoppable"

.

The New York Times

said

these days that Enriquez is like

a rock star

.

Few more appropriate definitions of success.

"Fear is one of the oldest and most powerful emotions of mankind, and

the oldest and most powerful fear is the fear of the unknown

," writes HP Lovecraft in his essay

Supernatural Horror in Literature

.

Enriquez herself

remembers the exact moment

when she read, at the age of 10,

Pet Cemetery

, by Stephen King: an uncle who was a bit clueless about children's readings had given it to her.

"Faced with a particularly brutal page,

I threw the book to the ground

. It is my most vivid, initiatory and definitive reading memory," the author has recounted.

Cover of "Our night part", by Mariana Enríquez.

Mariana Enriquez's stories, in addition to being particularly well written, portray a near horror (too much).

Anyone is frightened by a count fond of human blood who lives in Transylvania (where is Transylvania?), but

the darkness itself

, the one that lives in our neighborhoods, the one that voses, the one that knows the villas or takes the 152 to La Boca, that terrifies without limits.

On March 16, Mariana Enriquez

will read her own and others' horror stories

at the Teatro Coliseo.

The entries evaporated in a breath.

Because?

Perhaps because the dark times that fell upon us

become a little less gloomy

if we look at them reflected in a book.

Anyway, it is a hypothesis.

We will have to wait for Monday's newspaper.

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Source: clarin

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