Giving transcendence to genres stigmatized by the popular or even the merely commercial is one of those laudable causes to which authors such as Mariana Enriquez delivered regularly. He does it even in a work like this, begun his good years ago and finished "at times dead" until today. Because it is not enough Stephen King for make of the most atavistic horrors that redoubt of necessary literature, clairvoyant and strange. And it is that the shadows of our existence also relate a large part of who we are. Because as someone pointed out, the history of the human being is the history of their fears.
Death at the end of the day is the fear of fear, awareness of our finitude, fear of being fed to worms. The image of a cemetery with its cypress trees pointing to the sky, in tune with our souls' hopes of reaching heaven, is the paradigm of the sinister theatricality of our time. Hence this book by this author who is delighted to tour the necropolis from here and from there in search of the most unexpected inspiration. Because the dead may not speak, but the souls of those who are still lost can always serve as guides through the most amazing graveyards ...
Famous and history-laden cemeteries such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London or the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and other hidden, decrepit, remote or secretly beautiful parade through these pages. There are graves of famous people - Elvis's in Memphis, Marx's in London ... -, extravagant epitaphs, mourning sculptures, sensual angels, traces of voodoo in New Orleans, romantic writers, Gothic crypts, catacombs, skeletons, vampires, ghosts and an inexhaustible string of legends and stories: the poet buried standing upright, the grave of the faithful horse, the flooded cemetery ...
Published for the first time by the Galerna publishing house in Argentina in 2014, this edition incorporates new walks, and the original sixteen cemeteries become twenty-four here. This unique book may have a certain macabre aroma, but it goes much further, with its touches of humor, its literary references and its uninhibited chronicle of personal adventures that include the search in Havana for the mysteriously disappeared guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers.
A heterodox and extremely brilliant proposal that invites us to delve into the secrets of the cemeteries and that is also a gateway to the literary universe of Mariana Enriquez, already converted in her own right into a fundamental author of the horror literature of the XNUMXst century.
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