Matthew Gleeson is a writer, translator, and co-editor of Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of California, Los Angeles. "Terrifying: Dávila's stories plunge into the nature of fear, proving its force no matter if its origin is physical or psychological, real or imagined."- Publishers WeeklyĪ former Mellon Public Scholar, Audrey Harris holds a Ph.D. "Like Poe from the new millennium."- Kirkus Amparo Dávila is Kafka by way of Ogawa, Aira by way of Carrington, Cortazár by way of Somers, and I'm so grateful she's in translation." "Each of these stories is equal parts Hitchcock film and razor blade: austere, immaculately crafted, profoundly unsettling, and capable of cutting you. Praise for The Houseguest and Other stories After reading The Houseguest-her debut collection in English-you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.
She is a writer obsessed with obsession who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. The Houseguest: And Other Stories Kindle Edition by Amparo Dvila (Author), Matthew Gleeson (Translator), & 1 more Format: Kindle Edition 318 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.52 Read with Our Free App Paperback 14.95 17 Used from 9.70 29 New from 10. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, loneliness, and fear. Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted-you’ll finish reading each one gasping for air. Filled with nightmarish imagery ("Sometimes I saw hundreds of small eyes fastened to the dripping windowpanes") and creeping dread, D vila's stories plunge into the nature of fear, proving its force no matter if its origin is physical or psychological, real or imagined: "Even if is exaggerating, these things do exist and they have destroyed her, they exist like these flames dancing in the fireplace.The Houseguest and Other Stories (New Directions Publishing Corporation) At night, Marcela is threateningly visited by the other woman, who resembles a toad. In one of the best stories, "Musique Concr te," a man's longtime friend, Marcela, discovers that her husband is cheating on her.
In the title story, a woman's distracted husband brings a mysterious man to their house, and the woman becomes unsettled by his lurking presence. In "Moses and Gaspar," a man takes in his recently deceased brother's pets and finds his life disintegrating the story is all the more haunting because the reader never knows exactly what creatures the two pets are. These 12 stories from D vila are the first of the Mexican author's to be translated into English and show her terrifying knack for letting horror seep into the commonplace and the domestic.
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