Keywords: Short Fiction, Strange, Fantastical, Instant, Latin-American Literature.
THE VIST
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Mariana Graciano
English
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
Foreword by Antonio Muñoz Molina
2023
Hardcover | 82 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Paperback | 82 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Sometimes I think I can still hear the chickens clucking outside. The sound wakes me. It takes me a few seconds to recognize the bed, the room, the city. I wonder what’s become of that place, if someone’s living there, if it still exists, or if it’s been torn down, reduced to dirt and forgotten scrub, or if there are animals grazing, licking each other clean, obliviously chewing some cud of the past.
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.