Her writing is intentionally opaque and allows readers to draw a number of different interpretations it is this intriguing, elusive quality that has perhaps led to her enduring popularity in Mexico., Each of these stories is equal parts Hitchcock film and razor blade: austere, immaculately crafted, profoundly unsettling, and capable of cutting you. Dávila has said in interviews that one of her favorite subjects is the mysterious, the unknown, that which is not within our grasp. There is no one like her, no one with that introspection and complexity., Reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, and Edgar Allen Poe, Davila tests the limits of fiction., Filled with nightmarish imagery and creeping dread, Dávila's stories plunge into the nature of fear: Terrifying., Like a dream, Dávila's fictional realm is filled with signs and symbols, with hybrid creatures who appear to defy the laws of nature, and with characters who do not act according to logic or reason. Her writing is intentionally opaque and allows readers to draw a number of different interpretations it is this intriguing, elusive quality that has perhaps led to her enduring popularity in Mexico., The work of Amparo Dávila is unique in Mexican literature. Dvila has said in interviews that one of her favorite subjects is the mysterious, the unknown, that which is not within our grasp. The world Dávila imagines weighs on the brain like some sort of delirium., Like a dream, Dvila's fictional realm is filled with signs and symbols, with hybrid creatures who appear to defy the laws of nature, and with characters who do not act according to logic or reason.
Brief and terrifying, The Houseguest leaves one feeling that nothing is solid, that reality is a precarious and ever-changing thing, and that it doesn't take much to render the ordinary unrecognizable., Mexico's high priestess of horror.
It is easier for these characters to stay silent than to try and explain the shadowy, strange things that stalk them.
Often coupled with these very real terrors is the knowledge that their experiences will be doubted. Whether she is writing about a wife whose husband brings home a ravenous and frightening guest, a young woman plagued by a not-completely-unwelcome visitor in the night, or a family held hostage by their possibly monstrous son, the horror is subtle-more is suggested than told. "Filled with nightmarish imagery ("Sometimes I saw hundreds of small eyes fastened to the dripping windowpanes") and creeping dread, Dávila's stories plunge into the nature of fear, proving its force no matter if its origin is physical or psychological, real or imagined.", How is this the first time I am reading Amparo Dávila? And when can I read more from her? In these stories, she creates creates claustrophobic worlds in miniature and populates them with people tormented by things we can't see.
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