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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez | Goodreads The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez | Goodreads

The Dangers of Smoking In Bed”: Of course a woman dies, but others also smoke in bed. But the chief memory here is of nocturnal butterflies.Disappearing in the context of the political history of Argentina is also integral to Enriquez’s particular Gothic. During the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s, it is estimated that between 9,000 and 30,000 people were ‘disappeared’ as part of the military dictatorship’s attempt to rid themselves of political dissidents. Many groups of people suffered from the violence, and their families still seek answers. The threat of the military state is aptly hinted towards in Spiderweb, with the appearance of three boisterous soldiers who harass a waitress, and a disturbing story later told about the military building dead bodies into a bridge. Thus when Juan Martín disappears as though he never existed, there is a sense that something underhand but totally normal has occurred, that the narrative itself swallowed him up without a need to explain. These spookily clear-eyed, elementally intense stories are the business. I find myself no more able to defend myself from their advances than Enriquez’s funny, brutal, bruised characters are able to defend themselves from life as it’s lived.”— Helen Oyeyemi It was released on DVD and HD DVD on March 4, 2008. A Blu-ray version was released on March 24, 2009. While the actual events of the dictatorship are usually implicit rather than explicit, one story that does refer to these years is ‘The Inn’. This one sees two teenage girls playing a midnight prank in a hotel that used to be a police academy. Talk about the ghosts of the past is usually metaphorical, but when you start to hear banging on doors and the deafening sound of marching feet, it’s another matter entirely. Exploring in monstrous form the true crime genre and violence against women, Enriquez’s short story collection remains relevant in 2021.

Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez Review: Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez

Los peligros de fumar en la cama es otra recopilación de cuentos, más raros que terroríficos, de Mariana Enriquez. I can easily say this is the best short story collection I’ve ever read and that’s as much as I’m going to say about it, I’m afraid, because this is not the sort of book I would lightly recommend even to my best friend. The first was Fever Dream, a brilliant novella originally published in 2014 as Distancia de rescate. The second was the collection Mouthful of Birds: Stories, largely based on an original collection Pájaros en la boca. But although the story collection came after the novella in English translation, it was an earlier work in the original (2010) and while the collection was strong, Fever Dream felt like a stylistic development of the shorter stories.In Argentina, one woman lights herself on fire. Hundreds follow. Together they create a new kind of beauty. Mariana Enrquez is a novelist, journalist and short story writer from Argentina. She has published two novels, a collection of short stories as well as a collection of travel writings, Chicos que vuelven, and a novella. She is an editor at Pgina/12, a newspaper based in Buenos Aires. Several pieces show us just how hazardous life in the capital can be. In ‘The Dirty Kid’, a middle-class woman slumming it in a dangerous part of town encounters a boy living on the streets. When she comes home one day to find the police investigating a murder, she can’t help but wonder if he’s the victim, particularly as there’s no sign of him – or his drug-addict mother.