Rosalía probably knew that every pixel in one of her posts would be scrutinized to millimeter precision, and she didn’t want to play dumb. Because in the past, when he appeared with a book on his bedside table or in his hands, his fans would pay attention to every minute detail to find out what copy it was, and rush to buy it and get it as soon as possible to read the same thing that St. Esteve’s Sisrovaire was reading at that moment. But in one of her recent posts, the 33-year-old singer explained what occupies her mind when she devotes her time to literature. Thistle Things we lost in the fireWritten by Mariana Enriquez.
This is the second collection of stories published by the author of Buenos Aires – in Spain published by Anagrama in 2016 -. For any lover of modern literature, the author’s name is not new at all, given that she is part of what is already considered the “New Argentine Narrative”, as well as being, today and in… At 51 years old, he is one of the world’s most influential novelists. Not only in Spanish, her works have been translated into more than 20 languages, and even another music star like Dua Lipa did not hesitate to recommend her works to her book club.
Above all, for the renewal of Latin American horror and darker science fiction. Because in reality, Enriquez’s first steps into the world were filled with fear. Born shortly before the process of national reorganization, The name given to the civilian-military dictatorship led by General Videla that ruled Argentina from the March 1976 coup until mid-December 1983, he lived his already conscious childhood glued to the radio.
“Instead of sending me to bed, he said, ‘Do you see how bad they are?’” Enriquez recalls. New York Times About how his father spoke to him while they were listening to the testimonies of the trials of officials immediately after the fateful period in his country’s history ended. He was reminded, for example, of a woman who described being tortured with electric shocks during her pregnancy. The “lack of future” in the post-dictatorship era would be a mark of his politeness, Such as the readings he did of other great Argentine names, masters of short stories and stories, such as Jorge Luis Borges or Silvina Ocampo, to whom he dedicated an essay.
His way of looking at the world made him realize that the brutality of everyday life, more than any horror film, was the most terrifying and exhausting, which influenced his work in… The way violence has been normalized in Latin America So much so that people have become accustomed to it. It is this political and humanistic reading, in which inequality is also prominent, that brought his literature, always more permeated by pain than the supernatural, to critical acclaim.
There are many examples of this, starting perhaps with his most famous novel, Our turn at nightbut also other works such as How to completely disappear Or summaries of stories, from The dangers of smoking in bed To the person in question who Rosalía is reading, as there are some stories that deal with topics such as drug addiction or slum murders or the ones that give the book its title, one of her most famous writings, about a young woman who burns herself to death after several men kill their wives in the same way, Which prompts other women to do the same as a form of protest.
Enriquez did not want to devote himself to fantasy literature. In fact, her other job is as a journalist, which is the profession she studied, because it was always her idea to be a music reporter. What’s more, It was precisely thanks to the music Rock and rollWho became interested in literature. Listen to singers like Nick Cave, meet William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, and Patti Smith, where she talks about Arthur Rimbaud in horses, It made him discover the French poet. In fact, the name of the book that the author loves hits Badly also Berghain It is taken from the group’s album Low from 2001, Things we lost in the fire.
Finally, it must be added that the writer who won important awards such as the Barcelona City Award 2017, the Heraldi Prize for Novel 2019, or the Grand Prix 2022, and also published other works such as Going down is worse, A sunny place for gloomy people Or history books Someone is walking on your grave and The other side. Pictures, fetishes, confessions, She admits that she is a fan of this sport, and has dedicated many posts to it on her Instagram account. As they are very active and almost everything Influencer With over 280,000 followers: Tennis.