5/22/2023 0 Comments The house guest book amparo![]() ![]() She was the one who found the body and saw them lying quietly at his feet, as if asleep. Although the apartment caretaker said she had been feeding them twice a day, “they looked all skin and bones” after the man’s death. ![]() A narrator is faced with the unpleasant task of making arrangements for his recently-deceased brother’s things, including dealing with Moses and Gaspar. “Moses and Gaspar,” the first story in the collection, is a haunting introduction to Dávila’s world and shows readers how effortlessly she balances the thoughtful and the unsettling. Dávila writes in a way that is both dreamy and exact, surreal and oddly representational The Houseguest feels like an exquisitely paced bout of somnambulism, in step with some of the best short work of the genre. Dávila’s work echoes Nikolai Gogol and his many disciples, from Shirley Jackson to Leonora Carrington, and her very-short stories each flow with a confounding efficiency. Reading Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest is an experience of recognizing the ineffable: feelings of dread, paranoia, and angst adopt eerie and familiar forms in these twelve excellent stories. ![]()
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