The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, published originally in 2009, was Mariana Enríquez’s first major collection of short stories, laying the groundwork for a transformation of Latin American literature’s relationship with the horror genre. Gone is the wonder and inventive positivity, replaced with the misery of putrefaction and pain, unrelenting pain. Mariana Enríquez’s Buenos Aires, meanwhile, is scarred by decades of austerity, squalor and inequality, deadly misogyny, and the disappearance of around 30,000 people during the dictatorship. GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ’S Macondo was wondrously haunted by the whimsical phantoms of authoritarianism and imperialism, conjuring up magical visions of lemon and silver that enchanted US readers.
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