The decay of our physical selves, the fears of an afterlife, and sudden surges of sex ignite these stories with a blue flame her exploration of female self-pleasure is both erotic and chilling. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīut Enríquez is also a clinician of the body, dissecting her characters-sometimes literally-with a surgeon’s scalpel. Their spirits are low, but the stakes couldn’t be higher. (Like Flores and Schweblin, Enriquez's work is translated into English by Megan McDowell.) As in her previous collection, Things We Lost in the Fire, Enríquez mines her inner Poe: Her characters grapple with ghosts and their own hauntings. Now, Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez joins their ranks with a ravishing new story collection, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, a volume that reimagines the Gothic and gives it a wholly original spin. Theirs is a whole new canon.Īrgentina’s Samanta Schweblin, Chile’s Paulina Flores, and Brazil’s Carola Saavedra are a few who collapse the walls between the real and the imagined. They are tapping into the richness of the magical realism tradition most associated with Gabriel García Márquez and the surrealism of Jorge Luis Borges, but with entirely unique styles and takes on the world. But there’s a new generation of women writers poised for literary prominence in the U.S.
Isabel Allende looms large as the doyenne of Latin American literature.
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