Things We Lost in the Fire: Mariana Enriquez

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Things We Lost in the Fire is a 2007 drama film directed by Susanne Bier, written by Allan Loeb, and starring Halle Berry, Benicio del Toro and David Duchovny. In the English this is marketed as the author’s “next collection”, after Things We Lost in the Fire (2017). However, as with Mouthful of Birds, the original was actually published earlier, with the 2017 collection taken from a 2016 original Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego. And from comments from GR friends who’ve read both, it sounds as if this is a less well developed work. The film was released in the United States and Canada on October 19, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2008. A lo largo de estos cuentos volví a encontrar el estilo característico de Enriquez, una autora que logra hacer que lo cotidiano sea perturbador y los lugares cobren vida. Sin embargo, aquí no logré conectar con ninguna de las historias, era empezar a leer y pasar horas releyendo la misma página sin lograr que las palabras se convirtieran en imágenes o que las desgracias de los personajes me provocaran empatía. Me forcé tanto a seguir leyendo que me provoqué un bloqueo lector —es por eso que he estado sacando y poniendo libros de la estantería "leyendo"—, y el resultado siempre era el mismo. Me daba igual lo que pasara en cada historia. Si salvo alguna, quizá, es Carne, un relato sobre el fanatismo.

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Enriquez, Mariana (2016-12-12). "Spiderweb". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2019-08-01. Have you ever woken up gasping, just marginally escaping from the throes of a familiar yet intangible nightmare? Mariana Enriquez crafts a world composed of such nightmares in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, a world in which your own malaise leaves the hollow chambers of your mind only to materialize in the world you inhabit. It was much more tedious and uninteresting than the previous. Jealousy among teenagers leads to the summoning of spirits to kill the people they are jealous of. Very cliched and unoriginal. Julita’s folks had disappeared. They were disappeared. They’d been disappeared. We didn’t really know the right way to say it.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. The pounding that woke her up was so loud she doubted it was real; it had to be a nightmare. It was making the house shake. The banging on the front door sounded like punches thrown by enormous hands, the hands of a beast, a giant’s fists.

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Josh Rosenblatt (2007-10-19). "Things We Lost in the Fire". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved 2007-10-27. As this is my first Enriquez, I had high expectations - which, sadly, were not met. The writing is fluent but the stories, with a single exception, are too short to really get under the skin of what they're saying. In some cases, there is a match between the tale and the brevity where it says everything it needs to, but in other cases I felt a bit short-changed.Our Lady of the Quarry’: A chorus of girls look on jealously as their most ‘grown-up’ (but, in their opinion, least attractive) friend starts a relationship with their collective crush. I wasn’t sold on this narrative device when it popped up in Things We Lost (in the story ‘The Intoxicated Years’), but here it works perfectly, pulling the reader into the girls’ petty resentments and dreams of revenge. Rather than going after individual men, the burning women take on society as a whole. As it turns out, what we lose in the fire is our humanity… Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken, these 12 tales present a gothic portrait of a country tilting uneasily away from the memory of horrific traumas, as new ones lurk around every corner.” — The Boston Globe, “The Best Fiction Books of 2017” The Well’: As a child, Josefina accompanies her mother and sister on a visit to a reputed witch. Afterwards, she becomes afflicted with fear, and is so terrified of everything that she struggles to live a normal life. The tragedy of Josefina’s existence – and the cause of this misery – is powerfully depicted. Los peligros de fumar en la cama es otra recopilación de cuentos, más raros que terroríficos, de Mariana Enriquez.

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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 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. The Dangers of Smoking In Bed”: Of course a woman dies, but others also smoke in bed. But the chief memory here is of nocturnal butterflies. It was the first time Graciela had seen a moribund person walking, a person whose mind didn't register the death of the body.

Since I lived alone, there was no one around to point out my depression or try to cheer me up. I hadn’t had such a good time in years. Think about the most horrible things that can happen in life. Now, imagine that there’s no line between reality and your worst nightmares and what it would be like to only be able to see the world through the lens of superstition; to see the whole world as an evil omen of death.