Keywords: Short Fiction, Strange, Fantastical, Instant, Latin-American Literature.
Mariana Graciano
Spanish
Foreword by Antonio Muñoz Molina
2023
Hardcover | 82 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Paperback | 82 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
LA VISITA
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A veces todavía creo escuchar por mi ventana el cacareo y me despierto. Me toma unos segundos reconocer la cama, la habitación, la ciudad. Me pregunto qué habrá sido de aquel lugar, si acaso alguien estará viviendo allí, si existirá todavía o si habrá sido demolido, si ahora será todo pura tierra y yuyal olvidado o si habrá animales pastando, relamiéndose y masticando sin saber vestigios de pasado.
— Mariana Graciano
The Visit is a book of glimpses, of glimmers, of exacting moments. Stories like fleeting windows onto other lives. In prose both solid and light, both contained and generous, Mariana Graciano invites us to regard her characters for an instant: the instant when something—whether thunderous or subtle— moves, unhitches, or is reabsorbed. A book that helps us leave ourselves for a little while, peer into other dwellings, and watch intently, captivated, through the fifteen spyholes that this autor has cut into the door.
- Laia Jufresa
MARIANA GRACIANO (Rosario, Argentina, 1982). She studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, completed an MA in Creative Writing at NYU and a PhD at The Graduate Center (CUNY) in New York City, where she has lived since 2010 teaching literature classes and workshops. His texts have appeared in magazines in Latin America and the United States. His first book of short stories, La visita (Demipage, 2013), earned him recognition from Fnac Talent in Spain. His novel Passages has two editions in Spanish and one in English (Passages). In 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) Artist-in-Residence award. She is currently a participating author in the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program and a professor at Pace University.