Brazilian writer and editor Leila Guenther (Blumenau, 1976) visited our country recently to launch the Peruvian edition of his book The hens night flight (Draft, 2010). This is a collection of stories originally published in Portuguese in 2006, mostly of fantasy, and in which the author experimented with the creation of vague and distressing atmospheres.
affiliation is easy to recognize literary texts. The first "Night" refers inevitably to Edgar A. Poe: The beginning of "The Pit and the Pendulum", to which are added some details of "The Tell-Tale Heart." In other stories, ("Night" or the book's title) the lyrical approach to the feminine universe suggests rather the narrative by Clarice Lispector. But the greatest respect, as often happens within the Latin American fantastic literature today is Argentina's Julio Cortázar, who even mentioned in a couple of stories.
Particularly interesting is the subtle ways in which Leila Guenther is providing readers with information about the characters and context of each story. But these brief and fragmentary account (rather than synthetic capacity seems to indicate a lack of development) and too obvious traces of the teachers (understandable in the case of a first book), they weigh enough to The time to evaluate the hens night flight. Hopefully then, the future installments of this writer.
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Leila manages Guenther blog Na linha da life.
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