![]() The protagonists are almost always girls, children or young minors. Whether you are inside a Renault 12, a tufière, an urban park, a teenager’s bedroom, a half-disused hotel or on the road to Corrientes, you really find it there. Each of the twelve short stories that make up The dangers of smoking in bed sets up a universe where the characters to whom we become attached evolve. Very few words are enough for Mariana Enriquez to set the mood. It makes visible everything that has been censored. She uses the codes of horror, but instead of placing her stories on the edge of fantasy or science fiction, she places them in very ordinary situations. Mariana Enriquez depicts minds and bodies both inhabited and abused in a very spectacular way. The policy of enforced disappearances damaged the memory but it also did a terrible harm to the bodies, including those of the survivors or those who come after. Even when it is not directly in question, the crimes of the dictatorship weigh on the representations of Argentine reality. ![]()
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