Conversación con la oscuridad

To converse with our fears, with terror, to converse with Mariana Enriquez. To witness a dialogue between Mariana, herself, and her work. This work by the great Mariana Enriquez invites us to consider Gothic literature as a critical, political, and aesthetic device, through a style of writing that is read through its hybridity of the literary, the cultural, and the historical. The five main sections that structure the book reflect on the need for a Latin American approach, permeated by trauma, memory, and inequality, among other central and relevant themes that allow us to think about horror fiction in a situated way, but without losing sight of its global connections. In this way, key articulations of the main aspects of literary analysis are integrated, and toward the end, the book activates the arteries that allow Gothic literature to circulate, overflow, and multiply, generating a theoretical framework that is, in its very structure, a Gothic device. And all of this culminates in the poetics, the writing, the work of Mariana Enriquez, the most influential Latin American writer of this century so far.