Alguien camina sobre tu tumba by Mariana Enríquez

He was unmistakable: The large, damp eyes that looked full of tenderness but were really dark wells of idiocy. It was definitely him, no doubt about it. That’s why, when he saw the apparition, he felt more surprise than terror. He had studied the ten crimes of the tour in detail so that he could narrate them well, with humor and suspense, and he’d never gotten scared-they didn’t affect him at all. He’d been quite happy about the change: Before, he’d been leading the “Art Nouveau of Avenida de Mayo” tour, which was interesting at first but got boring after a while. Pablo knew that when the company appointed him as a guide on the murder tour, they were giving him a promotion, even though the salary was the same (he knew that if he did well, sooner or later the salary would go up, too). It ran four times a week: twice by bus and twice on foot, two times in English and two times in Spanish. Of all the tours of Buenos Aires the company offered, the murder tour was the most popular. It happened during a pause in the narration while they rode from the restaurant that had belonged to Emilia Basil (the dismemberer) to the building where Yiya Murano (the poisoner) had lived. In her latest book, Alguien camina sobre tu tumba, Mariana Enríquez offers a chronicle of her visits to cemeteries around the world, in which she weaves a narrative where death rites dance with culture and stories clouded by the darkness that rules in their imaginary.The first time he appeared to Pablo was on the bus during the nine-thirty tour. Despite its presence in every corner of the world, the taboo of death and everything surrounding it continues to obstruct the possibility of talking about the role it plays in society. Death has often been relegated to silence but, after a year of the pandemic, it has inevitably become visible. In this session, on the occasion of the publication of her latest book, Alguien camina sobre tu tumba ( Someone’s Walking on Your Grave, Anagrama), the writer Mariana Enríquez will speak with writer Olga Merino about the role played by death in our imaginary and the possibility of transforming it.įor many people, this last year has been marked by the pain of losing a loved one and the difficulty of sharing this blow in a time of social distancing.

Alguien camina sobre tu tumba by Mariana Enríquez