Tatiana Landín R.: Stories without Peace

El Universo

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What makes a story attractive to the reader? There are theories that coincide in two fundamental features: the economy of language and stylistic rigor at the service of history. Samanta Schweblin, an Argentine writer and narrator par excellence, employs an ideal analogy: “it is like being faced with a list of very precise instructions, of how to move in a house that you don’t know to find something very specific.” And it is precisely that sensat…