Samanta Schweblin is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed Latin American authors writing in the twenty-first century. A master of articulating narrative tension and readerly discomfort, Schweblin writes fiction where the strange and the uncanny are found in the everyday. Her work is characterised by a sense of uncertainty and defamiliarization, which fissures conventional notions of normality. Many of her stories border on horror, the fantastic, and even the marvellous, while others are entirely realist, despite delving into unexpected, absurd, or ominous aspects of the real. Some are underscored by dark humour, and most point to a critical re-examination of human subjectivity and experience through a focus on illness and disability; unusual bodily transformations;…
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Citation: Vázquez Medina, Olivia. "Samanta Schweblin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 November 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15108, accessed 27 November 2024.]
