Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories

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Self, John (2018-11-02). "Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez review – gruesome short stories". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-08-01.

Things We Lost in the Fire - Box Office Data, DVD Sales, Movie News, Cast Information". The Numbers . Retrieved 2012-11-06. Joe Morgenstern (2007-10-19). "Del Toro Rescues 'Things We Lost,' A Tale of Grief". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2007-10-27.Young women in Enriquez’s stories have a distinctly irreverent shade to their characters, often rebelling against societal expectations, explicit instructions, and parental guidance. In Adela’s House, a young girl enters an abandoned house against the advice of her parents and her own instincts, and never resurfaces, ‘not alive or dead’. Once again, her disappearance is never solved, and the people who loved her are destroyed by the loss. In The Inn, two girls experience a ghostly encounter while trying to set up a prank in empty guest rooms. When about to lie down together, a symbol for the sexual relationship that the main character, Florencia, would like to pursue with her friend, Rocío, they are interrupted by the cacophony of men shouting, car motors, boots stomping – the ghostly sound of state terror and horrific political crimes. There is a sense that the blossoming of these girls’ sexuality and self-knowledge is interrupted by Argentina’s tumultuous recent history, a sense of the impact of intergenerational trauma. Exploring in monstrous form the true crime genre and violence against women, Enriquez’s short story collection remains relevant in 2021. The Intoxicated Years" was published in Granta. [8] "Spiderweb" appeared in The New Yorker. [9] Contents [ edit ] Story Josh Rosenblatt (2007-10-19). "Things We Lost in the Fire". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved 2007-10-27. Mariana Enríquez, el terror en lo cotidiano". 2017-04-29. Archived from the original on 2017-04-29 . Retrieved 2023-06-29.

Audrey Burke and her warm and loving husband Brian have been happily married eleven years; they have a ten-year-old daughter named Harper and a six-year-old son named Dory. Jerry Sunborne is a heroin addict who has been Brian's close childhood friend for many years.No quiero que me saquen las pesadillas" | Babelia | EL PAÍS". 2017-10-07. Archived from the original on 2017-10-07 . Retrieved 2023-06-29. The “propulsive and mesmerizing” ( The New York Times Book Review) story collection by the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com . Retrieved 2019-08-01.Audrey gets tragic news delivered to her door by the local police: Brian has been killed in an attempt to defend a woman who was being beaten by her husband. On the day of the funeral Audrey realizes that she has forgotten to inform Jerry of Brian's death. Her brother Neal delivers the message to Jerry and takes him to the funeral. 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. Eventually, Audrey demands that Jerry leave the house after he questions Audrey on her reaction to Harper playing hooky from school. This causes Jerry to relapse with heroin. Audrey and Neal rescue and rehabilitate Jerry, and he agrees to admit himself to a specialized clinic. At first Harper, who has come to love Jerry as much she did her father, is angry that he is leaving. But after he leaves her a heartfelt note she accepts that he is going. It was released on DVD and HD DVD on March 4, 2008. A Blu-ray version was released on March 24, 2009. stars.

Szalai, Jennifer (2017-03-03). "Argentine Fiction". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-08-01. What do you know about what really goes on around here, mamita? You live here, but you’re from a different world.” Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez Enriquez, Mariana (2016-12-12). "Spiderweb". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2019-08-01. The film was released in the United States and Canada on October 19, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2008.

Mariana Enriquez: "Me interesa sacar el terror de los lugares comunes" - Télam - Agencia Nacional de Noticias". 2016-05-17. Archived from the original on 2016-05-17 . Retrieved 2023-06-29. Quién es Mariana Enriquez, la mayor exponente de la literatura de terror en la Argentina". infobae (in European Spanish) . Retrieved 2023-06-29. Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken.”— The Boston Globe (Best Books of the Year) There are recognisable elements in this collection of the True Crime genre, a dark corner of media which has as many fans internationally as it does critics. The examination of real crimes, more often than not focusing on grizzly murder, has always captured the public’s most grotesquely-inclined imaginations, and this has peaked in the last fifty years with the rise in awareness of criminal psychology. This morbid fascination has been argued to disconnect us from other human beings, and yet has resulted in the successful apprehension of long-obscured culprits. Many of Enriquez’s stories and characters live in this liminal space between a need for desensitisation to the horror of real life, and a comprehension of how the normalised should be understood as horrific, through the metaphor of her many ghouls and monsters. Glenn Whipp (2007-10-19). " 'Fire' Draws its Heat from Del Toro". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on 2007-10-22 . Retrieved 2007-10-27.