La condición animal (The Animal Condition) by author Valeria Correa Fiz traces the topography of some of the most powerful literary expressions in contemporary fiction by women. […] There is a similar tour de force between civilization and instinct in the works of other Argentinian writers.......
such as Mariana Enríquez and Samanta Schweblin, where the sinister serves as a manifestation of history and domesticity.
These stories offer glimpses of the in-between with almost alarmist baseness, provoking reflections on maternity, paternity, relationships, and on growing up as a way of discovering death; on madness, unassailable illness, complicated sexualities, and the process of becoming orphaned, both socially and familially… La condición animal, a debut, traces the topography of some of the most powerful literary expressions in contemporary fiction by women.”
Read more: Marta Sanz, El País, March 13th
