Bøger af Mariana Enriquez

A masterpiece of contemporary Gothic from the internationally acclaimed author of Things We Lost in the Fire.

Smukke og grusomme fortællinger fra en af vor tids største og mest dristige latinamerikanske forfattere. Shortlistet til Booker-prisen. Velkommen til Buenos Aires, hvor forsvundne børn vender tilbage fra de døde og opgravede knogler bærer på frygtelige forbandelser. I disse fortællinger fra det moderne Argentina giver forfatteren stemme til kvinderne – de udstødte, de undertrykte og de glemte – i en storby gennemsyret af vold og vanvid.Fortællingerne er befolket af uregerlige teenagere, mystiske hekse, hjemløse spøgelser og udsultede kvinder og formår på original vis at forene klassisk horror, feminisme og moderne samfundskritik med stor skønhed og underfundig humor.Mariana Enriquez (f. 1973) er kritiker, journalist og forfatter, regnes for en af Argentinas største nulevende forfattere og en moderne arvtager til Julio Cortázar og Jorge Luis Borges. Hun debuterede 21-årig i 1994 og har siden udgivet adskillige romaner og novellesamlinger. Hun fik et stort internationalt gennembrud med den anmelderroste novellesamling Ting vi mistede i ilden (da. 2017), og hendes seneste store romanværk Nuestra parte de noche blev belønnet med den prestigefulde Herralde-pris, den største litterære pris i den spansktalende verden, og blev en romanen indtil videre udkommet i 24 oplag. Anmelderne skrev: »Dronningen af Latinamerikansk goth.« Financial Times »Som sin chilenske nabo, afdøde Roberto Bolaño, skriver Mariana Enriquez om de mørkeste afkroge af menneskesindet, men med en præcision og en poesi, som efterlader læseren forunderligt opløftet.« The A.V. Club

"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazâu Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals. For Gaspar, the son, this cult is his destiny. As Gaspar grows up he must learn to harness his developing supernatural powers, while struggling to understand what kind of man his mother wanted him to be. Meanwhile Gaspar's father tries to protect his son from his wife's violent family while still honoring the woman he loved so desperately"--

The “propulsive and mesmerizing” (The New York Times) story collection by the International Booker–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night—now with a new short story. The short stories of Mariana Enriquez are: “The most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro“Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken.”—The Boston Globe (Best Books of the Year) Electric, disturbing, and exhilarating, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation's troubled history, but among the abandoned houses, black magic, superstitions, lost loves and regrets, there is also friendship, compassion, and humor. Translated by the National Book Award-winning Megan McDowell, these “slim but phenomenal” (Vanity Fair) stories ask the biggest questions of life and show why Mariana Enriquez has become one of the most celebrated new voices in global literature.

We find in these pages from an interview with the legendary Argentinian rocker Charly García to a text about the fixation with the author's low-cut dress. Poignant personal pieces of hers about her beginnings as a writer, the first time she was called ma'am or her fascination with homosexual eroticism coexist with splendid portraits of writers such as Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley or Neil Gaiman. Eccentric figures such as Hubert Selby Jr., Kenneth Anger or Joe Dallesandro are also addressed; musicians like Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, or David Bowie; actors like Asia Argento or Jared Leto; female myths like Sylvia Plath or Kate Moss... An essential book for fans of the author and for any lover of vibrant journalism and good literature.

I bogen, Looking Writing Reading Looking, går 26 internationale forfattere i dialog med kunstværker fra Louisianas Samling. Forfatterne åbner vores øjne for værkerne med deres særlige, poetiske blik. Igennem en bred vifte af litterære genrer som digt, essay, erindringer og noter viser bogens bidrag, hvor forskelligt man kan opleve kunst. Forfatterne er her læsere af kunstværket – og herfra kan vi selv læse videre. I kunsten og i litteraturen. Bogens bidragsydere er Georgi Gospodinov, Colm Tóibín, Claudia Rankine, Richard Ford, Peter Laugesen, Chris Kraus, Sjón, Anne Carson, Roxane Gay, CAConrad, Mariana Enriquez, Hiromi Itō, Delphine de Vigan, Domenico Starnone, Yoko Tawada, Jacques Roubaud, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Eileen Myles, Tomas Espedal, Christian Kracht, Guadalupe Nettel, Anne Waldman, Matias Faldbakken, Chigozie Obioma, Péter Nádas og Tahar Ben Jelloun. I bogen omtales blandt andet værker af Francis Bacon, Asger Jorn, Henry Heerup, Alicja Kwade og mange andre.