El libro de las costumbres rojas
Elisa Díaz Castelo
SHORT STORIES | 2023 | 136 pages
These stories possess a familiarity with the unheard of. They move in interstitial spaces, in the folds of reality where the unusual occurs. That’s where their protagonists inhabit—in the fissures, in the unsettling places that bloom underneath our day-to-day lives, in luminous and dark worlds that are never lineal. Only those who have been to hell and have returned, speaking a new language, can guide us through these tenuous regions and translate what the cracks are saying for us.
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“Elisa Díaz Castelo’s language is chimerical: her stories wonder about those extraordinary moments that give new meaning (and, almost always, a sinister side) to the most mundane events.”
“El libro de las costumbres rojas shows us a writer’s fine-tuned ear, a surgical gaze that breaks down the essence of things. Here in these stories, different elements overlap: memory and past take shelter beneath the present. The poetics of this book are a silent dystopia that appears in the simplest elements—in this game of mirrors, the simple and the everyday become the seed of horror. A poetics of perversion in which reality embodies the power of words.”
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